If you’ve ever used an autoresponder before, did you ever find yourself saying to yourself, “If only my autoresponder could…” and then just gave a sigh of frustration? I know the feeling. I’ve used quite a few autoresponders in my day. Some of them were not so good until I finally found a service that was pretty darn near perfect. In this article, I’m going to share some of my “If onlys” with you. Some of them have been solved. Some are still a distant dream.

One of my early autoresponder wishes was for my autoresponder to be able to automatically remove somebody from your list and not just make them inactive. Now I realize that with the autoresponders that make them inactive, it’s easy enough to just run a report of all inactive members and delete them with the click of a button. But it would just be nice if I didn’t have to do that one little step. If they’ve unsubscribed, let them REALLY be gone.

Another one of my autoresponder wishes is to be able to turn single and double opt in on and off depending on where the subscriber comes from. For example, if the subscriber for my list is coming from an opt in form that I send only to people who are already on another one of my lists, I want them to be able to get into that list with single opt in. I mean they’re already on a list with the same service. So why make them use double opt in? For people I get into that list who I don’t know from Adam, they should have to double opt in. The problem is, all autoresponders I have seen so far are either single or double for that list. You can’t have it both ways. Okay, maybe I’m asking for a lot, but you do see my point, right?

Another thing I wish with all my heart that my autoresponder could do is allow me to manually resend the confirmation messages, for my double opt in lists, to those people who haven’t confirmed yet. Unfortunately, all autoresponders I have used don’t allow you to contact these people in any manner shape or form from their service as they hide their email addresses from you. Not only that, but they don’t even allow you to remove these people from the system. It’s like they’re there, but not really. Oh sure, most services will automatically remove the unconfirmed after 30 days or so, but who wants to wait that long, especially when most services charge you once you get past a certain number of list members?

Okay, my wish list is turning into a rant. But you do see my point, right? Maybe asking for the perfect autoresponder service is asking for too much. Maybe we should be happy with the features that we do get, and granted, the top services have some neat features. But marketers are a picky lot. We want everything and we want it yesterday.

So, what’s YOUR autoresponder wish list? What makes you say “If only my autoresponder could…” and brings about a sigh of despair?

Drop me a line someday and I’ll add it to my list, which seems to be growing more and more everyday.

Some people are just never satisfied.

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