Additional Information:

The one area it seems lacking (at least in comparison with the other products and services reviewed here) is in helping you design and create your messages. However, Opt-In Pro offers unlimited autoresponders where most of its competitors do not. So it really depends on your needs.

Opt-In Pro helps you build your lists, with:

• eForms: Create custom signup forms to place on your website

• Rapid Reply Email Address: Any email address that sends a message to one of these autoresponder email addresses is automatically added to the list of your choice

• Shopping Cart Integration: To help you follow up with your customers

• Manual Addition and Bulk Upload: of your current contacts and contact lists to Opt-In Pro

• ClickTrack: Build custom links to:

• Notify you each time someone clicks on it

• Count how many readers clicked on it

• Identify the individuals who clicked on it

• Build a new list of these people

• Send a special autoresponder message to those on this list

• Direct the people on the list to a specific web page

• Add or remove any person on the list from this or any of your lists

• MailTrack: A tag you add to your messages that lets you know exactly who opened the email and when. Additionally, just like ClickTrack, MailTrack will:

• Notify you each time someone opens it

• Count how many readers opened it

• Build a new list of these people

• Send a special autoresponse message to each of them

• Direct them to a specific web page

• Add or remove any of them from this or any of your lists

Opt-In Pro helps you send email to your lists, with:

• Unlimited Autoresponders – for sending unlimited messages in sequence to anyone that activates any “triggers” you set (opening an email, making a purchase, requests info); use autoresponders to send “Free Reports”, eCourse, event calendars, newsletters, and more

• Campaign Messages – an autoresponder designed specifically to automatically follow up with leads and customers

• Broadcast – send your one-time or sequential messages instantly or on a schedule:

• Instant General Broadcast – sends a message instantly to everyone on your list

• Instant Targeted Broadcast – sends a message instantly to a specific segment of your list

• Date-Specified General Broadcast – sends a message at a scheduled future date to everyone on your list

• Date-Specified Targeted Broadcast – sends a message at a scheduled future date to a specific segment of your list

• Smart MergeandSmart Personalization – merge up to 47 fields from your contact list into your messages

• HTML formatted messages – just enter HTML into the message instead of plain text; Opt-In Pro will only deliver the HTML version to those on your list who’ve indicated their email client can read HTML

• One-Click Removal – let your subscribers easily manage their own subscriptions with simple hyperlinks that Opt-In Pro provides

• Preference Controls – let your subscribers change their email address or HTML preferences without bothering you about it

• HyperBlast Mailer – multi-channel, multi-thread, multi-server, scalable web-based system for delivering your messages fast while you remain free to move on to other things; active logging technology tracks all outgoing messages to make sure they’re each properly sent, even if there is an interruption or delay in sending

• MailRoom – a single place for viewing the status of all your lists and the progress of all your mailings

• MailLogs – in your MailRoom, you can also view all of your past mailings, including Broadcasts, follow-ups, and autoreplies

• Undeliverable Manager – bounced message are sent here, where they undergo a 20+ day screening process to determine whether each message is truly undeliverable and if each email addresses is truly invalid; invalid email addresses are ultimately automatically removed from your lists

Opt-In Pro helps you manage your lists, with:

• Automatic Smart List Moves – once a contact receives the last message in any sequence, you can have them automatically moved to a new list, deleted from the current list, and/or start them over on the same campaign

• Notifications – be notified every time someone joins your list

• Auto Name Capitalization – automatically capitalizes the first and last name of each recipient

• Statistics – track stats like total number of subscribers or removals over a certain period of time (today, yesterday, last week/month) and the subscription source for each; generate categorized reports, sortable by type of contact, product of interest, or company affiliation

• List-to-List Management – move individual contacts or entire targeted segments of contacts from one list to another

• Search – find contacts by conducting a search based on any of the fields in your contact list – personal contact info, geographic locale, demographic data, any of the other up to 47 custom fields – and instantly view and edit their info, move their record to a different list, add them to or remove them from one or more of your lists

• Export – use your list in other third party, database applications

Opt-In Pro helps you archive your lists, with:

• eArchive – let your subscribers view past messages, past issues of your newsletter, or other info you’ve chosen to archive

Bonus Opt-In Pro features include:

• Full integration with all of KowaBunga! Technologies software products

• Full integration with GoldMine Contact Management Software

• Free email and telephone support

• Availability of custom programming – to better cater Opt-In Pro to your business’s unique needs

There are two ways to enjoy Opt-In Pro:

Silver Package ($99 software setup fee, and $9.95 monthly hosting fee) – each month get:

• 1 list

• 5,000 outgoing messages

• 2,000 incoming messages

• 20,000 contacts

• 100 eArchives

• 10,000 signup transactions

• 5,000 ClickTrack transactions

• 5,000 MailTrack transactions

Gold Package ($199 software setup fee, and $19.95 monthly hosting fee) – each month, get:

• 10 lists

• 10,000 outgoing messages

• 3,000 incoming messages

• 60,000 contacts

• 300 eArchives

• 30,000 signup transactions

• 20,000 ClickTrack transactions

• 20,000 MailTracks transactions