Challenges with the sequential autoresponder
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As mentioned previously, I am testing out Xtreeme’s FollowUpXpert autoresponder software.
I have created and populated a new website, NewBookOnAudio.com (free hosting at Directnic to keep costs down), and am awaiting confirmation on affiliate status from suitable companies like Audible. I’ve also created some affilliate linkages to ClickBank products, plus some Brian Tracy audio material.
I have managed to get the email links to my autoresponder to work okay and trigger simple one-off responses appropriately, but so far the webforms that link to the sequential autoresponder email addresses don’t seem to want to work for me, although I am not sure if that is a problem at my end or at Xtreeme’s.
I have two options regarding webforms - either use Xtreeme’s own server script located on their servers, or use a script on my own server. Both have pros and cons.
The pro for using Xtreeme’s server is that it also includes a ‘Captcha’ mechanism, wherein as a safety-net against spamming you have to confirm that you are a ‘real’ person submitting the form and not a spam-bot. But despite several attempts, whilst I can successfully communicate with the Xtreeme server, enter the correct code into the Captcha box and be redirected to a ’successful form completion’ page back at my site, the data doesn’t get sent to my autoresponder address.
So I am thus faced with the prospect of trying to use my own server and a script provided by Xtreeme to handle the ‘transaction’; but the script doesn’t include any ‘Captcha’ spambot trapping, so any spambot hitting the form will automatically trigger a response, thus confirm that the email address is ‘real’ and share that fact with other spambots, filling my databases with false email addresses.
However, on reflection, that’s not so bad — there is only one form I use that allows free-form comments and I think from memory that the autoresponder software automatically deletes email addresses from its database if it receives two bounce-backs.
So, unless I get a response back from the team at Xtreeme (very likely, they are very active in their forums) from an enquiry I am yet to launch, I shall probably just deal with my own server. A risk, true, but a small one.
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