Well, maybe not quite yet.  We haven’t quite got to the point of an I-phone app but we are close enough to show you some exciting new twists on some old ideas. Take email Auto-Responders.  What are they?

Well you know how when you sign up for a promotion like a newsletter or the calendar for your favorite bar band?  What usually happens is you leave your name and email address and click submit.

Then you receive notification that in order to confirm your subscription, you must visit your email account and click on the confirm link.  What you have done is called a double opt-in.

The first “opt-in” occurred when you clicked the check box and left your name and email.  The second “opt-in” happens when you click a link in the email to confirm your subscription.

This has become so commonplace that when I tell people about permission based email campaigns, they say, “what’s that”?  But when I give them the above example, they recognize it immediately.

What has happened is that the world of e-marketing is so full of spammers that there must be a way of controlling it.  That is why permission based email campaigns are so valuable.  They arrive at your inbox only when you ask for them and there is always a link to unsubscribe if you change your mind.  This is really the only way to do businesss through email. I believe that this will become the ONLY way to do business on the web.

There are a number of email auto-responders out there, some you might recognize with names like “Aweber” and “Constant Contact”.  But the one I recommend and use every day is called “Marketing F5″ by Attain Response.

This is an incredible tool that is so new, most of you haven’t heard of it yet.  I want to give you an overview so you can see why I think this product is poised to take the internet marketing industry by storm.

The entire product by Attain Response is actually a suite of products that encompass several parts of the campaign tool.  These include a robust email program, a media vault, a template manager, and finally the marketing F5 auto-responder.

The thing I like best about it is that you can do everything from one site.  The old way of doing things required that you use several applications including FTP upload software like Filezilla.

I won’t go into detail here but suffice it to say, if you wanted to put media onto a page of html, it required that you host your videos or photos at the server.  This meant you had to have a domain name, host, and usually a web programmer to put it all together for you.

Well, you are going to be so pleased when I show you how the F5 suite of products eliminates all of the middle men.  You will be able to upload video, photos, and even live broadcast to our server.

You then can easily pop them into a landing page, email template or blog.
In the next segment we’ll start with the mail product.  Mail F5 is a great web-based email platform that just might have you ditching your Lotus Notes or Outlook.  Stay tuned…