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John Quincy Adams

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What is Getresponse?

Getresponse is an email marketing app that allows you to:

·         create a mailing list and capture data onto it

·         send emails to the subscribers on your mailing list

·         automate your emails to subscribers via use of ‘autoresponders’

·         view and analyse statistics related to your email campaigns – open rate, click through, forwards etc.

·         In recent years however, Getresponse has shifted its emphasis considerably: the product now aims be more of an ‘all-in-one’ e-commerce and marketing solution rather than just an email marketing tool.

·         Accordingly, in addition to email marketing, Getresponse now also provides e-commerce features, webinar hosting, landing pages and automated sales funnels.

·         Getresponse has been in business since 1998 and, according to the company, over 350,000 individuals and businesses now use the platform for their email campaigns.

·         Whilst this userbase is not as big as those of some other email marketing tools (notably Mailchimp), it is large enough to provide confidence that the company is well-established and is not likely to disappear any time soon.

Getresponse pricing

There are four Getresponse plans:

·         Basic — starting at $15 per month to send an unlimited number of emails to up to 1,000 subscribers

·         Plus — starting at $49 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers

·         Professional — starting at $99 per month for up to 1,000 subscribers

·         Max — negotiable.

As you add more subscribers to your list, the costs increase. At the top end of the scale, you can expect to pay $450, $499 or $580 per month to use Getresponse with a list containing 100,000 subscribers on the ‘Basic’, ‘Plus’ and ‘Professional’ plans (respectively).

Key differences between plans

All the Getresponse plans cover the email marketing basics you might expect — core features include:

·         the ability to import, grow and host a subscriber list

·         a selection of themes to use for your e-newsletters

·         autoresponder functionality

·         responsive email designs

·         split testing

·         landing pages

·         in-depth reporting

·         RSS / blog to-email functionality

·         list

 segmentation options

There are a number of differences between the ‘Basic’, ‘Plus’ and ‘Professional’ plans, but for me the key ones are below:

·         Automation builder — arguably Getresponse’s standout feature, the automation builder (which allows you to build complex autoresponder sequences based on user behaviour) is only available on the ‘Plus’ plan or higher (you can create 5 automations on the plus plan; or an unlimited number on the other plans).

·         Conversion funnels — you get access to more automated sales funnels as you go up the pricing ladder.

·         Webinars — this functionality is not available at all on the ‘Basic’ plan and the number of webinar attendees is capped for the ‘Plus’, ‘Professional’ and ‘Enterprise’ plans at 100, 300 and 500 respectively.

·         Team management — you can only have one user account on the ‘Basic’ plan; by contrast you get 3 on ‘Plus’, 5 on ‘Professional’ and 10 on ‘Enterprise.

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·         E-commerce — the abandoned order recovery feature is only available on the ‘Plus’ plan or higher.

How does Getresponse pricing compare to that of its competitors?

So long as you are happy to use one of the entry-level ‘Basic’ plans, the pay-per-month Getresponse plans are on the whole cheaper than those provided by many of its key competitors, particularly if you have a reasonably large number of email addresses on your database.

At the entry level database end of things, Getresponse’s pricing is fairly competitive — you can host a database containing up to 1,000 email addresses for $15 a month with Getresponse, compared to $29 per month on Aweber and Campaign Monitor. The pricing for Mailchimp’s broadly comparable ‘Standard’ plan is $14.99 per month.

As you go up the pricing ladder, Getresponse remains competitively priced.

If you have a contact list containing 10,000 records, hosting it on the ‘Basic’ Getresponse plan costs $65 per month.

This works out:

·         $4 per month cheaper than Aweber

·         $24 per month cheaper than Campaign Monitor

·         $40 per month cheaper than Mailchimp (Standard Plan)

Some other things to be aware of on the competitor pricing front are:

·         Some competing providers — notably Mailchimp and Aweber — offer free accounts for users with a small number of records (note however that these do not offer the full range of features that you get on a paid plan).

 Getresponse doesn’t yet offer a similar free plan.

·         Some solutions (Mailchimp again being a prime example) charge you to host both subscribed and unsubscribed contacts, which can become a significant hidden cost. Getresponse only charges you for your active subscribers.

·         If you are prepared to pay upfront for 1 or 2 years, you can avail of substantial discounts with Getresponse that other competitors don’t yet provide.

So the bottom line is that its lack of an entirely free plan aside, Getresponse stacks up well against competitors in the pricing department.

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Pi Network – A Scam or Future Bitcoin ??

I would be sharing my honest review and all the research I have done so far.

“Till date no-one is benifited from pi network(pi coin)except the founders”.It could be justified from the following reasons:-

Users are currently putting value in the app without tangible (except maybe psychological) benefits:

The app does not provide any utility to its users beyond functionality like in-app messaging. Most users hold on to it with the hope that they will sometime convert their virtual coins to actual value

The app works like a direct selling or affiliate marketing system, promising future rewards to users for bringing in new users. Some users put in additional time and effort to attract new users, such as numerous users adding their codes as comments to this article. We find it similar to Multi Level Marketing since it includes direct selling and provides increased potential benefits to early users (i.e. earlier users mine at an increased rate), however affiliate or direct selling are possibly better analogies.

Users are putting value into the app. There are hundreds of posts online saying PI Network can not be a scam because users do not put any money it. Users’ time and data are valuable to those users and they are spending these on the app. For more, you can see our analysis of the app’s privacy policy, its data collections, permissions and the 3rd party software included in the app.

We find it unlikely for the app to create value in the future unlike its claims:

The app creates limited value. Users create no value except for providing their information to the mobile app, viewing ads or messaging other users. The value of these activities is unlikely to generate significant wealth for the large user base.

Some of its current practices are also used in scams:

Founders are already benefitting from the app. They launched optional video ads at launch to monetize the active user base. The app also has a KYC process of collecting passport information. Having a verified audience through a KYC process would increase advertising revenues. We are not against ad funded businesses, we are also such a business, we provide insights and our audience views ads on our pages. However, when businesses that are expected to launch additional features (e.g. launch coin on exchanges), start monetizing their audience, that can create a conflict of interest.

Their marketing emphasizes the academic credentials of their users. Very similarly, a blockchain scam without blockchain infrastructure, OneCoin, relied on the McKinsey experience of its founder in its marketing.

Will pi currency be valuable in near future?

It may have a value in future still the answer can’t be totally A Yes. But some of the evidences which give us a idea that it may have a value in near future:-

They have published a high level whitepaper outlining their ambitions without providing technical details on how their Pi Stack would work. One of their aims is to have others build apps on PI network to benefit from PI network users’ attention. This reminded us of the pay to surf models of the dot com boom where companies installed software on user devices and acted as middleman between users and advertisers without generating substantial benefit to either party.

They claim to have run a pilot in 2020 for people to exchange goods and services using Pi. Instead of running pilots, they could have listed their coin on an exchange as it has been done by companies like electroneum. Pi users claim that Pi team’s approach of forking the open source Stellar blockchain to build their implementation requires significant effort due to various reasons and that this is the reason for the delay. We will not know until we see the mainnet and the criteria for launching the mainnet remains vague in the whitepaper. Mainnet will be launched once the community feels that it is the time and sufficient testing has been completed.

According to their Linkedin page, they have 70 employees as of 2021. However, many of the people that list themselves as working there are app users with titles like “Cryptocurrency Trader”. We haven’t analyzed each profile but there seems to be a group of people working towards building something there. It could be the next version of the app or the blockchain network, that is hard to verify from outside the company. What we can see is

they have launched a test version of their blockhain

users claim that they have shared some of their code on github

Its founders were educated at and worked at Stanford. Though this is certainly a good thing, people rarely notice that Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, the writer of this article and numerous business founders were educated at reputable universities (e.g. Ivy League universities for these examples). This is because their companies rarely use these facts. Based on our observations, business success is far more important and a better predictor of successful enterprises than academic credentials. And successful companies tend to speak about their business success rather than their founders’ academic credentials.

They have had significant growth. They have ±250k reviews and a good rating on Google Play Store. However, models similar to MLM tend to generate fast growth

Well I advise you to download it as it is free and sign up, you can use my refferal –“aadi255”.  minepi.com/aadi255.