About a year ago, the Intuit/Homestead automatic email/newsletter feature in my account was placed on hold by Homestead because my list size was huge. After checking into other options, I discovered a much better email system called Aweber. The company has a risk free trial.

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Trust me; Aweber is a really easy program to work with.

With this new set up, you can sell your products and connect the Paypal sales process with the auto responder in the Aweber program. This allows you to send information automatically once the system is set up in your Aweber account. All of the digital product tutorials I have developed for Intuit Homestead users are set up on this automatic sales responder.

It is called an email parser when you connect the Paypal sale with the automatic email responder. It only takes about fifteen minutes to set up. By watching the tutorial video provided inside your Aweber account, the process is made really simple.

Before using this automated system, I used to have to manually email the links to the digital product pages. This was time-consuming. Each day I would have to check my Paypal account to see if someone had purchased anything. If I had a purchaser, I would then have to log into my email account and send the product links to the buyer. It required constant monitoring of sales.

Now I never have to do anything, but collect the money from my Paypal account. Everything is automatic. The customer clicks on the “Buy Now” button and completes the sale. Then, the connection from Paypal to my Aweber account automatically sends the email that I have created to be sent to the customer with all information that I choose to send to them.

The beauty of this automatic email system, provided by Aweber,  is that it enhances the passive income process. Once it is set in place, literally thousands of dollars can be made while never having to do anything, but release the funds to yourself periodically.

1) You should go to http://homestead.com and in the upper right of the window login to your Hmail email account.

2) In the “send to” text box, type the name of your list and the domain name it is associated with.
Example: list101@homesteadusers.com

3) Enter the information in the text box as if you were sending a regular email.

4) Hit “send” and your list of subscribers will be emailed instantly.

The Homestead system will only allow you to send out messages to fifty people at one time. If you want to send more than that you will have to submit a request for a mass mailing.

This can become frustrating quickly if you begin to get a lot of subscribers.

My lists grew so big that I had to move to a different email service provider than Homestead. I discovered that Aweber was perfectly suited for all of my email marketing needs.

One very important thing that you must do is always provide your subscriber lists an option to get off of the mailing system. If you do not do this, it’s possible that you could be labeled as a spammer and the Intuit Homestead company will blacklist you. If this happens you will have to deal with the compliance team to try and get your marketing back on track.

Another important thing is that you must immediately remove anyone from the list at their request. If you fail to do this, you will be in danger of loosing your emailing rights once again if you get reported as a spammer.

The Intuit Homestead company is very respected in the online world of the Internet. They will not tolerate things that are not being done in the correct manner in relation to sending email messages out to your subscriber lists.

To add this storage file for news letter subscribers we must first log into the main account for your services, not the site builder account. On the left side click on where it says Domains & Emails.

Then on the next page left click on Manage email services. Next select the website that you want the mailing list to be associated with.

You may have two options:
1) create an email
2) Create mailing list

Next you must name this list and enter a valid email address in the content (or, text) box below. To finalize the Intuit newsletter email subscribers storage file click on save.

Now, login to the Intuit Homestead websites site builder program and left click on view communications tools elements.

The first option in the drop down menu is join this mailing list left click this option. A window will open giving you choices for which domain mailing list that you want to attach (or, link) the icon to.

Now, select your site where you created the newsletter subscribers storage file at. An icon will now be added to your Homestead website page for newsletter sign ups.

When a visitor clicks on the icon another window will open requiring them to add their email address. When they enter the information it will automatically be stored into the mailing list file that you created in your main account or in step one of this lesson.

You have just finished the first stage of how to create a newsletter mailing list for a Homestead website. Now let’s look at how you can start your marketing campaign.

How to send an email to your Intuit Homestead website’s mailing list of subscribers.

1)Log into your Hmail email account
2)Left click on options at the top right
3)Select Format as HTML this will make any http: URLs active links that can be clicked on.
4)In the To section enter the name that you gave your newsletter subscribers mailing list file.
5)Add the URL of the website page that you want all of the recipients to go to.
6)Click Send and your finished

That’s how a newsletter is added to an Intuit Homestead website or a mailing list is formatted. Remember if you have any difficulties at all the phone tech support is incredible for this company. Never hesitate to give them a call when you are having difficulties.

Email marketing is a great way to build relationships with your niche subscribers. Try not to over do the amount of times that you send your lists information. Email marketing with your Intuit website should be done in moderation.