(In Deutsch)
RapidResponseBot provides low cost sequential autoresponders. It follows the motto “by marketers for marketers” and is less designed and polished. It is sober and is limited to the essentials.
The functions of Rapid Response Bot help you maintaining your lists. Messages can easily be created and placed in a sequence.
The personalization options are limited but sufficient.
RapidResponseBot is limited to the most important statistics. It allows, however, that you monitor any links with so-called trackers. The trackers are not bound to the mails. The collected statistics can be obtained automatically via e-mail, which is really useful.
The documentation of RapidResponseBot is not particularly polished to a shine, but shows briefly and concisely how to set up the tool and work with it.
Rapid Response Bot is rather aimed at technically-oriented users. Usage is quite easy, but focuses less on point-and-click.
Nevertheless RapidResponseBot offers a lot, which is useful.
You can have your first own autoresponder in just a few minutes from now. Then, thanks to the possibility to copy entire sequences, even faster.
Summary
RapidResponseBot is a great service that satisfies all autoresponder needs.
The possibilities and features do not reach the level of the competition, but support you effectively in the list creation and list management.
Some features are unique in the provided form.
The support material is not as extensive as that at the competition, but enough to be able to start quickly. In particular, there are step by step instructions for creating lists. Even beginners can get started right away.
The possibilities of the creation of mail at Rapid Response Bot can not compete with GetResponse, but are sufficient for most. The scheduling of circulars is useful. That trackers do not depend on mails, is a valuable feature that can be used effectively by the automatically sent statistics.
The price is extremely cheap. It is independent of the number of subscribers, making the costs, RapidResponseBot causes, predictable over time. The optional available one-time payment can pay off quickly, if the service is used for a longer time (which is likely).
With its 30 day right of withdrawal you can try RapidResponseBot now risk free.
Mail, autoresponder and campaigns
The possibilities of RapidResponseBot are absolutely sufficient.
The are no limitations for the creation of email. You can send HTML-mails and text-messages.
With tags (also called variables or fields), the message can be personalized and therefore include – for example – details on the receiver. First name and email address of the reader are most frequently used and mentioned in the subject or in the message. This gives your mail something personal.
In addition to the preset up to 10 custom fields are possible.
Example:
In the forms for ordering often first name and email address are requested. The name is not necessary in principle and is used only for personalization. At the desired location just enter
%%FNAME%%
Changes or normalizations, for example modification in capitalization, is not supported by Rapid Response Bot. The competitors AWeber and especially GetResponse provide superior functionality here.
As a nice detail, RapidResponseBot can fall back to a default, if the first name is missing.
Hello %%FNAMEFriend%%,
results in an output ‘Hello Thomas,’ if the first name was ‘Thomas’ and in ‘Hello Friend,’, if no first name is known.
Therefore you can use the same text, regardless of wether the list asks subscriber for their first name or not.
Autoresponder and campaigns
RapidResponseBot needs just one account for any number of lists, campaigns and messages.
So often you will manage all of your own lists in an account.
This also allows to manage the lists of family and friends beside your own. But make sure to restrict who can maintain a list in your account. Mischief and violation of the rules of RapidResponseBot (e.g. spamming) could not only lock the causing list, but your account. This would be dramatically, if you manage your reader base or even customer base.
With the low cost, that Rapid Response Bot causes you can easily set up multiple accounts if in doubt.
Each list has its own readers and its separate sequence of mails. It is therefore independent of any other list.
The creation of the mail list is easy:
- Write the message. The text can be personalized.
- Determine, when the message is sent. Here, you simply specify how many days should be pause between the message and the previous one.
Example:
There is always an email that is sent as soon as the reader confirms his registration. Then you could place a message that will be shipped the following day. Then, one which comes two days later, etc.
Often there are courses that consist of parts, that arrive every other day. All these messages have therefore a delay of two days to its predecessor.
Or deliver weekly, with 7 days delay.
You can also copy complete message sequences. Quickly build a new responder with this, and only perform changes/enhancements afterwards.
An interesting feature is ‘list changes’. This allows a reader to switch from one list to another. Obvious example is the change from the list of interested party in the list of customers, if the reader buys.
Or, or, or …
Newsletter
You can use your RapidResponseBot account also for sending newsletters and announcements. A separate newsletter service is no longer needed. In the terminology of autoresponder services is called the broadcast. It is a mail delivered right away to all readers of the selected list.
RapidResponseBot supports not only the immediate sending, but also scheduling. Hence, you can for example schedule issues of your newsletter before your vacation, so that it is delivered anyway.
Or plan a Christmas greeting for the next 10 years. Planed is not forgotten.
Similar to AWeber Rapid Response Bot offers the possibility to convert RSS feeds into emails. With that, you could let a newsletter be created from your sites feed.
Tracking and monitoring
The control functions of RapidResponseBot are sufficient.
In principle, the service provides information on the list activity (subscribes, unsubscribes, size) and allows to monitor links and see how often a link is used.
The direct use of the tracker is more cumbersome than with GetResponse, as a tracker has to be set up separately.
But the interesting feature is that these trackers are very general.
You can create and manage trackers independently of the mail, for everything.
As an interesting detail you can specify costs for this link. For example: If you use the link in a paid ad, you could specify the advertising price there and s tells you what a visitor did cost effectively.
You can store multiple addresses in a tracker, that are chosen randomly by RapidResponseBot. For example, you could set up a tracker with various products or websites and Rapid Response Bot distributes the visitors to these addresses.
The analytics and statistics can not compete with those of AWeber and GetResponse, the trackers, however, have a greater value than there direct use in the mail sequence.
This holds especially to the fact that you can get the statistics of these trackers automatically by e-mail, if you want.
Support
I had asked a question to support and needed to resubmit it after a few days to get an answer from Phil Eugene. But then, almost immediately.
I am still pleased with the support, but viewed objectively it can not compete with AWeber and GetResponse. In my opinion, this is simply due to the fact that behind RapidResponseBot are no large companies and teams, like at AWeber and GetResponse.
In addition, Rapid Response Bot provides written help and video tutorials. In general it is sufficient, but not nearly as extensive and detailed, as the offering of AWeber and GetResponse.
Prospects enter their details in a form on your website or blog. You decide completely what they must specify. Definitely needed is the email address. Often asked for are first names.
The creation of the form is done easily and quickly.
Inside your RapidResponseBot-account select to create a form. Select the desired fields and change texts as required.
You get the finished code for your form, just paste it into your website or blog.
Done.
Pricing
The abilities and possibilities of RapidResponseBot leave nothing to be desired, if you do not require templates and styles, and only need the most important statistics.
In exchange, some features are offered in a different or even unique way, that are extremely useful.
Rapid Response Bot does not offer all, that you have with AWeber and GetResponse, but is focused and limited to important and useful functions. This can quickly turn out to be advantageous, if you need just these existing functions.
With the prices however RapidResponseBot gives its competitors literally the fatal blow.
Rapid Response Bot offers two different models.
- Price per month $20.00 per 10000 subscribers.
- Or a one-time payment, including unlimited subscribers.
In both cases, this is all-inclusive, that is unlimited autoresponders, trackers, lists, and mails.
Unlike its competitors Rapid Response Bot does only increate price in large steps, every 10000 subscribers.
The pricing structure is so simple and extremely (up to nothing but incredible) cheap.
RapidResponseBot offers a 30 day right of withdrawal, so you can test RapidResponseBot without hurry.
It is completely risk free.
Conclusion
RapidResponseBot is a great service that satisfies all autoresponder needs.
The possibilities and features do not reach the level of the competition, but support you effectively in the list creation and list management.
Some features are unique in the provided form.
The support material is not as extensive as that at the competition, but enough to be able to start quickly. In particular, there are step by step instructions for creating lists. Even beginners can get started right away.
The possibilities of the creation of mail at Rapid Response Bot can not compete with GetResponse, but are sufficient for most. The scheduling of circulars is useful. That trackers do not depend on mails, is a valuable feature that can be used effectively by the automatically sent statistics.
The price is extremely cheap. It is independent of the number of subscribers, making the costs, RapidResponseBot causes, predictable over time. The optional available one-time payment can pay off quickly, if the service is used for a longer time (which is likely).
With its 30 day right of withdrawal you can try RapidResponseBot now risk free.
Video
This videos shows the stup of RapidResponseBot, and gives you an overview, how to configure the autoresponder ad its campaigns.
Note: The video was produced by RapidresponseBot itself, but is still objective, as it only shows, how RapidResponseBot looks and works and what you can expect.
