Free professional autoresponder

I was signed up to mailchimp but I found the service to be crap and the fact that everything worth using it for costed something, so for someone that is just starting out with email marketing, I didn't really want to be forking out a ton of cash monthly for a month or two until I had created a campaign or got a few people on my list or something, I think it's unfair to justify the cost if you're not actually using their service fully.

So I did some Googling and found www.benchmarkemail.com/, they provide a free email marketing system that is more professional looking than mailchimp and has better functionality and a wordpress plugin (not another one!) to implement all of this on your website, or you can use shortcode if you don't want another plugin slowing your site down.

On the free account you can have upto 2000 email addresses and send up to 14,000 emails per month, that's enough for me and I'd say most people here at WA.

The free account includes all the email marketing bells and whistles including auto responders, campaigns, scheduled emails and the rest.

One awesome feature that I LOVED is when you install the wordpress plugin, it gives you the option on every post you do to send the post to your email list, to schedule the sending of the post and much more all from within the WP editor, I think that's an awesome function as sometimes we just don't want to have to share the same info twice, we find something relevant and send it to all avenues.

Hope this helps a few people on their internet marketing journey :)