GetResponse Review: Is it Worth Your Money? (2024)

4.5

It’s always fun to find and try new software, and I started Email marketing a few years back and every day is a learning curve for me. I have been testing and trying many tools for Email marketing and latest one which I tested is Getresponse. 

This one is Opt-in Email marketing tool and comes with free guides for newbies to help you get started with Email Marketing .

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Features of GetResponse Autoresponder service:

GetResponse is an Email marketing software that offers most of the essential features that a professional Email marketing services should have. Before I go ahead with more about GetResponse in this review, let’s look at some of the significant features of this tool:

  • Autoresponder Service
  • Webinars support
  • Create landing pages
  • Mobile optimized
  • RSS to Email
  • Import contacts
  • Email Statistics (Clicks & open)
  • Easy to customize Email newsletter with pre-defined templates
  • Analytic integration
  • Social integration
  • Great support
  • Schedule Emails

Now, these are just a few of the features they offer, and there are many more, that we expect from a professional auto-responder service. Another reason I reviewed GetResponse here is; it offers 30 days completely free trial without the need of any credit card details. This is very useful for Bloggers, who believe in “Try before buy”.

Why you need Opt-in Email marketing tool:

There is a huge line of difference between opt-in Email marketing and spam Email marketing. Opt-in Email subscription, Subscriber allow us to send the email by clicking on the link in their Email. This way, whatever Email you will be sending, it will be going to the receiver Email with his permission. Whereas, in Spam Email marketing, people fetch thousands of Emails and blast them with promotional email, which most of the time lands in the Spam folder. GetResponse takes care of it with their Opt-in Email feature, and your mails will always land into the inbox.  You can always track the number of clicks and no. of opened Email from the statistics tab inside your get response Dashboard.

Here are some of the advantages of Opt-in Email Marketing:

  • Maintain your reputation
  • Only interested subscriber gets into list
  • Your Email marketing cost remains low
  • Your list becomes more targeted and valuable
  • Increase sales and traffic through Emails
  • Help you to create targeted Email campaigns
  • Your Email will hit the inbox instead of Spam box

Before we move ahead with GetResponse review, here is a quick tip to get started with get response:

  • Create a Free GetResponse account
  • Add contacts: You can add contacts via an Email contact list you have, or you can use various services to import the contact list. Here is a list of supported service for contact import:
Import contacts to getresponse
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  • You can also use your Gmail and Yahoo Mail account to import contacts and in all the ways, added subscriber will get an email notification and opt-in link, which they need to click to confirm the subscription. So if you are making a switch to GetResponse, make sure you notify your readers and subscribers via the old tool, Blog post, and your Social media networks.
  • You can also create the Web form (Email subscription forms) and embed it on your Blog sidebar or below blog post for more signup.
  • Create your email newsletter and send it to your list.

Get response Auto Responder service offer Google analytic integration too, which will help you to add advanced tracking in your Email newsletter.  They have a huge list of beautiful Email templates, which you can use for free for your Email newsletter. Their advanced HTML Email Editor will help you to create good looking Newsletter within minutes and without the need to any coding knowledge.

Getresponse Email template
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Another Interesting feature of GetResponse is Email Inspector, which shows, how your Email will appear on various browser and devices. This is very useful, especially when number of smartphone browser and Email clients are increasing. It will make sure, your Email newsletter remains attractive, irrespective of browser or platform used to check your mail.

Email view
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GetResponse team also takes care of their customer by sending Email marketing tips, and keep educating them about best practices and things you can do to make your marketing campaign more effective.

GetResponse offers one month completely free unlimited plans and after one month, if you are satisfied with their performance and effectiveness, you can opt for any paid subscription. Here is GetResponse pricing chart, which increases with the number of subscribers you get.

Getresponse pricing
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Pricing is reasonable compared to it’s all close alternatives. Also, they offer an iOS AppAndroid app, which will help you to manage your campaign and GetResponse account directly from your Android phone.

If you a serious Internet Marketer or Blogger, building Email list should be your priority and you can select from various options available around. GetResponse is one of those first options, that are more likely to come across and their free trial account and amazing HTML email template creator will give you all the reasons to get started right away:

If you are an existing user of GetResponse and would like to share your GetResponse review or feedback, feel free to let us know via comment. Also, how many of you feel double opt-in is an essential feature of any professional email marketing software?

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Authored By
A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

5 thoughts on “GetResponse Review: Is it Worth Your Money? (2024)”

  1. Darrin Benner

    Very good review, nicely written. I’m just on my 30 day trial with this service. I’ve been with MailChimp and ConstantContact. Not bad either. MailChimp offers much for free but isn’t as intuitive as GR. Lately they are getting better in this aspect. Thing is we all have a lot to learn and we’ll have a lot more, because this pace is crazy. So we need simplicity and we need it badly.

    Beside everything you covered, what I also find good about GetResponse is their survey creator&publisher being free once you buy e-mail service. I like that, in ConstantContact you have to pay extra for it. I was looking for it in aWeber but couldn’t find it. (Correct me if I’m wrong here, pls).
    What I’d like to see in GR’s survey feature is at least some basic font choice within.

  2. Suresh Khanal

    They say, money is in the list and it’s a solution to make lists.

    When we look at these service what stops at first is it’s price. And very surprisingly, they are relatively expensive.I wonder why they price the service so high. It’s good that GetResponse monthly plan is not that high. Let me have some experience with it.

    I was using MailChimp and it was awesome till my list was fairly smaller. But when it increased, I faced problem in sending blog-to-rss campaign and had to wait for another 10 or 15 days, or I need to go for a paid plan.

  3. akhilendra

    Getresponse is better than most of other service providers eespecially their pricing is really good for the beginners but in terms of rss to email feature, i think aweber is superior. but everything else is good.

  4. Nitin

    I was thinking of email marketing from few days …..my email template question is solved by this artical…. if we send email to unkown people via Getresponse app ..would it be consider as spam?…

  5. Avi

    I think it’s a good one..!! Actually Email Marketing has become a trend now and without services like GetResponse we can’t make more money from blog as they help in maximizing the subscriber base.

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