OR If you also use an online shopping cart, bundle the two together and save on monthly operating expenses.

1ShoppingCart.com includes a sophisticated unlimited autoresponder setup bristling with features.

The Alexa rating shown above indicates how popular a web site is. There are limitations of course.

The rating is based on the number of users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed in their Internet Explorer browser. Non Windows platforms and browsers are not taken into account.

Despite this, the figures shown below give a reasonable indication of how much traffic a web site receives, and in turn, how popular it is with consumers.

In the two examples below it will be noted that both sites have high rankings (any site within the top 100,000 is considered a heavy traffic site).

Use the links below to find out more about the two autoresponders listed, use their demo accounts, browse the latest features, and give yourself time to make a final decision.

It is worth considering the options carefully as once you have started setting up messages in your autoresponder and building a list, much work is involved in changing over to another system.

Write your own list of "needs" as regards an autoresponder, sort them into priority order, then compare the features on the two providers below and see which one fits more closely to the criteria you have set.