Any one of these tools, or combinations of, work great for your free ad submissions. Both organization and posting are made easy after initial setup.

Below is lowdown of each, listing strengths and weaknesses, in my opinion. In all honesty I like them all, but read on, use them, and make your own decision. ---

AI RoboForm

AI RoboForm is great for filling in forms. After you teach it how, it will fill them in automatically when your browser finds one. As you go to a newsletter form page, you can name settings for newsletter, then every time you go to that site, AI RoboForm will fill out form. All you have to do is hit submit button.

The free version can be used immediately. The way we are using this tool is hindered very little in free version, although full version does have some great features. There is no way to organize your ezines, but I find it an excellent form filler.

http://pagecrafters.net/programs/AiRoboForm.zip

--- AdWizard

One of AdWizard's better features is that it keeps a database that is easily accessed and modified. It also lets you know when it is time to send your ads again. AdWizard is a slower than AI RoboForm or EzineAnnouncer, but is most configurable of three when filling forms.

AdWizard is usable immediately, but requires that you register it after 60 days of use.

http://hop.clickbank.net/?dsextonj/pbeuger

--- EzineAnnouncer

Although I like all of these tools, most versatile is EzineAnnouncer. Like AdWizard, it will also let you know when to send your ads out.

Between AdWizard and EzineAnnouncer, former is most configurable using forms, but neither AdWizard or AI RoboForm have ability to send email to ezines that require your ad to be sent via email.

The demo version of EzineAnnouncer is usable for 15 days. After that it must be registered for continued use. If you use it, you might get addicted.

http://wetrack.it/eza/af.cgi?354 ---

None of these tools are expensive. The cost is less than $150 if you were to buy them all. Consider cost of advertising and what a premium ad runs. This now becomes a bargain.

The length of time involved is setup of each ezine. It's not too bad unless you have a hundred or so to do. After you've finished doing a bulk load like at Tucats Co-op, onezies and twozies are easy and don't take that long.

Remember, don't blow off those ezines after you've subscribed. You could be missing some good articles and might find an ad or two that you may find useful.

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Otherwise, if you request respondents to your ads to "write" ABC, or 123, they might easily forget to do so and then you will not be able to tell where response is coming from on Internet.

If you know HTML, you might be able to set responses using "Quotation Marks" that go before an email address to "Key" your ads. Or you can code URL in ad with a question mark, like: http://emailexchange.org/sig.html?ad5

Reviewing your logs will show you how many people actually accessed your sig.html document from placement of Ad number 5.

For those of you that do not have access to code a web site or luxury of email forwarding aliases, you can employ use of FREE auto-responders to code your various ads.

Most of FREE auto-responder services now available will encourage you to set up as many as you need. You can set up one for ad1@autoresponder.com, ad2@autoresponder.com, etc.

Access a FREE list of auto-responder services for this use at: mailto:freeautoresp@emailexchange.org

Either way, you just need to keep a log and list your "Keys" in an easy to follow manner, such as 123, abc, a100, etc. along with which sites or publications they correspond to.

We currently use a list of just over 100 FREE Newsletters and Ezines that we have found give us consistent responses to our ads. Access a FREE copy via Auto-Responder at: mailto:newsletters@emailexchange.org

Having been online for over eight years, as of this month - :-), we have seen many Ad sites and publications come and go.

That is current nature of Internet; one of constant change.

Placing a "Key" in your ads is only way to keep track of all movement that comes to take place as a result of your hard efforts to promote your product or service or lack of response.

So make certain to make every ad posted count and "Key Your Ads"!