Howdy! Today has been pretty cool.  Last night I spend some time in my GVO back office learning how to use all the cool tools that come with my web hosting package.  I have to tell you guys,  GVO has made it so easy to put up a website with their step by step “how to” tutorials, that anyone, and I mean anyone, can do this if they can watch a video, pause it, open another window on their computer and do what the video explains!  If I can do it, so can you!  In fact after you learn how to register and set up your hosting account, the next thing you learn is how to put up a blog I left off last night at inserting an image, ready to charge ahead through the remaining steps today.  This morning, one of our trainers, Janet Legere,  taught a class on how to create a subscriber form to include on your blog and then create a welcome message in our autoresponder.   If this all sounds Greek to you, let me back track a bit.  You know when you go to a site and there’s an area that urges you to sign up for updates or enter your info to receive my newsletter?  Well, that is an opt in form.  What happens is that by entering your information,  the person who administers that page also has an autoresponder tied to that form.  What is an autoresponder you may ask?  Simple, it’s a way for a website owner to keep all his/her subscribers in one database and then be able to communicate with all of them simply by developing their message(s) and with a click of the mouse, it’s sent to everyone on their list!  There are several independent autoresponders out there and most of them charge more money the larger your subscriber list becomes.  With GVO though, our web host account includes unlimited autoresponders (so you can create as many different subscriber lists as you want) and you don’t get penalized for having a large list