I have set up an auto responder. How can I determine if my auto responder is working?

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Mar Fajardo, Aff (Ontario, CA) Top Author Forum Guru 6/7/2014 10:41 pm
Affiliate since: 05/03/2002, Power Rank: 295 | Read Mar's 582 other Ask SC answers
One of the many advantages of running an auto responder is that, you do the major work at one point and then let the campaign run on its own, but it is also necessary to check it once in a while for optimization.

If you have set up your auto responder, here are ways to find out if your auto responder is working:

- Log in to your auto responder account. Depending on which auto responder account you have signed up with, for clarity I have chosen to list only an auto responder
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GT Bulmer, Aff (Alberta, CA) Top Author Forum Guru 6/8/2014 12:31 am
Affiliate since: 09/25/2012, Power Rank: 130 | Read GT's 63 other Ask SC answers
Hello, Vickie:

By now, you have received many great answers from other SFI affiliates. All I can do is tell you what I have done to determine if my autoresponder is working.

First, my autoresponder service has a feature that lets me test a message by sending it to myself. Whenever I set up a new message, I always use that feature to test the delivery and the appearance of the message.

Second, I have a few extra email accounts with Gmail (Google mail) that I sometimes
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George McBride, Aff (New hampshire, US) Top Author Forum Guru 6/9/2014 1:51 am
Affiliate since: 09/26/2012, Power Rank: 539 | Read George's 87 other Ask SC answers
By working you can mean two things:

1. Technically working. That is a person signs up and you are assured they are getting your email campaign.

2. Principally working. That is the efforts and emails are producing conversions. Conversions being the desired outcome of joining the email campaign. That might be, new affiliates, qualified affiliates, or perhaps trained Affiliate. Or that might be more product exposure for TripleClicks and more sales. What ever the desired outcome
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Ronilo Saguit, Aff (Philippines) Top Author Forum Guru 6/6/2014 7:06 am
Affiliate since: 08/06/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Ronilo's 408 other Ask SC answers
Auto responder is one of the best tool that we can set-up to immediately respond to anyone who show interest with SFI. We set this up as we received sign-up, or queries in our website.

SFI as you observed has auto responder it sends email once someone sign-up or do something significant. Although auto responders lost its personal touch we can overcome it by properly choosing words that will sound personal.

An important question asked is how do we know that our auto responder
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Robertson Dsilva, Aff (Singapore) Top Author Forum Guru 6/6/2014 6:21 pm
Affiliate since: 05/05/2004, Power Rank: 217 | Read Robertson's 212 other Ask SC answers
Picking the correct auto responder services is crucial to any sort of email marketing campaign. Some good characteristics include, no limit on the number of automated messages you send, easy to use, how far in advance you can set your message sequence, being able to easily customise messages, good support services, being able to go for a test drive before committing etc.

You can determine if your auto responder is working when the auto-responder service provides you with the feedback
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Karl Peterson, Aff (Utah, US) Top Author Forum Guru 6/5/2014 5:03 pm
Affiliate since: 01/19/2014, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Karl's 41 other Ask SC answers
Step One:

Set up an email account somewhere other than your main one. Gmail.com and Mail.com are free and are good for this.

Step Two:

Send an email to the responder from the new account, or use the new account on the form that causes the autoresponder to be activated.

Step Three:

Check the new email account for the receipt of the first in the series of emails that you have set up the autoresponder to send out. Then check it again at the proper
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Caroline Fraser, Aff (Australia) Top Author Forum Guru 6/5/2014 6:07 pm
Affiliate since: 03/16/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Caroline's 111 other Ask SC answers
Good on you for setting up an autoresponder.

You should get an email from your autoresponder provider when someone new joins your campaign. If you get no such emails then something is not working - probably your advertising of your lead capture page.

You will not be notified when someone unsubscribes, so it is a good idea to keep a regular check with your company, to see how many subscribers are still with you. If people are unsubscribing, then your campaign is not working.
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Lawal Sunday Joshua, Aff (Nigeria) Top Author Forum Guru 6/5/2014 7:06 pm
Affiliate since: 05/06/2013, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Lawal's 156 other Ask SC answers
Hello and thanks for asking

To determine if your autorespnder is still working maybe quiet difficult if you dont know much about auto responder.

Autoresponders operate on what’s called conditional logic. Conditional logic
works like so: if you choose A, then B will happen. This means that when you're
setting up your autoresponder, you're creating specific conditions for an email to
send.

Viewing autoresponder reports is very similar to regular campaign
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Andrew Anderson, Aff (Arizona, US) Top Author Forum Guru 6/8/2014 2:51 am
Affiliate since: 04/13/2012, Power Rank: 99999999 | Read Andrew's 330 other Ask SC answers
Sorry if this answer sounds too simple. I hate having to give short answers with little details but with this question I have found no other way. Be your own first subscriber. Use a G-mail or Yahoo Mail account and sign up through your form, confirm the sign up and wait for your auto responder messages to start coming in.

This will show you exactly what your customers see, and will tell you where your messages are being received. If they are going into the Junk or SPAM folder you need
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, () Top Author Forum Guru 6/6/2014 9:00 pm
Affiliate since: 12/31/1969, Power Rank: 99999999
I presume what you mean by your question to determine if an auto responder is work for you, is by looking at how well it is helping you to build audience, relationships, and sales long term.

If this is what is meant by an auto-responder "working", it will be helpful to use relationship building:

1.Emotional Connection - this content deals with the extremes of the human condition. Use to help subscriber know you understand roughly their goals, frustrations, and where
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