Thanks for the advice. I plan on implementing possibly your Brute Force Strategy or Multiple landing pages in order to fund full site. I have an existing site that I can mess with too. I’m all for keeping things simple, always have been. I guess that’s why I am fine with Aweber. They are great for what I do. I have heard through other sites too that they are not as flexible, but I’ve never really needed to get too complicated, yet I’m still a rookie.

great article as usual.

I use GetResponse as the autoresponder for my blog and Autoresponse Plus 3 for other projects. The latter is a great script and incredibly flexible, but you need either a VPS or dedicated server to run it.

I tried both Aweber and GetResponse in the past. I think Aweber’s strong point is the interface, which is easier to get accustomed to compared to GetResponse. I had to leave Aweber because they didn’t offer enough customizations for the project I was working on. I went with GetResponse, which is cheaper and offers more features.

Derek, a question for you… Which hosting company do you use for this blog? Do you have a dedicated server or a VPS?

Thanks.

your first affiliate site could be a simple one landing page deal. You don’t really need all of this advanced future planning until you are confident that you can make it work. I would suggest spending a small budget on a handful of different offers, creating simple landing pages for each, until you find some profits.

@Fields:

I’ve never heard of SendStudio, but they look pretty good at a glance. I’m going to check them out. Thanks!

As for your server problems, a VPS should be the same as a dedicated server, just slower. I don’t think it is possible to interfere with the other people on your machine when you are in a virtual environment. Are you sure you the hosting plans you are referring to aren’t shared hosting? That is different than a VPS.

Anyways, my VPS was through http://www.steadfast.net — they said I couldn’t use shared hosting as an email server (it would kill the other sites), but that a VPS would be fine until *I* outgrew it.

Thanks for the information..

I have aweber at the moment and there are somethings I dont like about them .. They are very inflexible and only in english..

I bought sendstudio which seems decent but then I learned that you need a dedicated server to run it — as most of these hosting companies limit the number of emails that you can send every hour.

Do you have a recommendation for a VPS server that doesnt limit email sending?

Sometimes you have to carefully check the terms of service as when they throttle smtp sending sometimes you dont even get an error message ! Mail gone into a blackhole!

Craig

Thanks a lot,
Athmane.