Membership to Traffic Wave is $17.95 a month, and include unlimited autoresponders, ad trackers, and an FFA lead generation system.
Traffic Wave autoresponders do allow subscription by email. Each autoresponder gets its own email address, and email sent to that email is subscribed to the list. To comply with US spam laws, the new subscriber is sent a confirmation message and must click the link in the message before they will receive any emails.
A customizable thank you page is not an option in Traffic Wave autoresponders. Instead, subscribers are taken to a standard thank you page that includes advertising banners you’ve specified.
Update: Traffic Wave just provided new features that do allow for a customizable thank you page for both subscription and confirmation. I’ve updated the final grade below to account for this upgrade.
Customization of emails is limited. You can specify a message to be sent in the confirmation email, but all emails sent have the standard Traffic Wave header and footer. These headers and footers are designed to comply with US spam laws by providing a clear notice that the email was sent from a list, and providing contact information and unsubscribe information. The amount of text in the headers and footers is a bit much, in my opinion, and detracts a bit from the actual email you’re sending.
Delivery rate is very good. I’ve never had a Traffic Wave confirmation message flagged as spam.
The autoresponders allow simple broadcasting of messages to the entire email list. They do not provide split testing.
Link tracking is also not provided in the autoresponder itself, but you do get unlimited ad trackers. So you could easily use ad tracking links to track clicks in your autoresponder emails. It’s just a little more cumbersome to do so than with an autoresponder that has automatic link tracking.
Overall, I’d give Traffic Wave a B for features, and a B- for value. The lack of a customizable thank you page and email customization makes it harder to create a professional feel to subscribing to your list. The monthly price tag is on the high end, but comparable to other professional grade autoresponders.
Just a quick note:
TrafficWave.net has recently upgraded our broadcast feature.
Now our clients can schedule a broadcast to go out to a single subscriber, all subscribers, or a specific group of subscribers.
The broadcast can be scheduled to go out instantly or months later.
Brian Rooney
TrafficWave.net LLC
Hi Brian, I’d seen that announcement come through just recently, but haven’t had a chance to play with it.
I’ve been impressed with how the Traffic Wave autoresponders keep evolving with new features. That sort of continual improvement is a great thing!
I am intersted in learning if Traffic Wave does have yearly payment option and option to pay with Paypal instead of all other autoresponder providers that only allow payment by credit card…
Thanks 🙂
Hi Dominique! TW does not take payments via PayPal, since PayPal has policies against MLM programs. It does take eGold and AlertPay, though, as alternatives to credit cards. Or, you could probably get a PayPal credit card and use that.
[quote comment=””]Hi Dominique! TW does not take payments via PayPal, since PayPal has policies against MLM programs. It does take eGold and AlertPay, though, as alternatives to credit cards. Or, you could probably get a PayPal credit card and use that.[/quote]
Thanks for the answer but unfortunately, I’m out of USA and don’t have a credit card (Europe has strict policies about credit card owners).
Paypal credit card… not available any more and only for US citizens 😉
Yes, taking payments from outside the United States is an ongoing issue. AlertPay sounds like your only option, but I’m not sure how that works, if you need a credit card backing it up.
I leave i Nigeria i am serious in dire need of autoresponder service, i dont really know the functionability of traffic wave, though their product outline seems very captivating.
One thing that i seems not to understand is that i dont know if whether they they will accept virtual visa card which is one of the bet payment method in Nigeria owing to the blackmailing from internatuonal communities.
Jerrywhyte Obamwonyi
achieversportal@hotmail.com
TrafficWave accepts regular Visa, so I expect that they’d accept the virtual visa cards. You can always sign up for the 30 day free trial and see if it works with virtual visa or not. If it doesn’t, you aren’t out any money.