Aweber Review
I have been marketing online now for about six months, and started using Aweber right from the start, from a recommendation. I never really understood it that much, just did as I was told to do and got it set up with my emails. So I just ’set it and forget it’! Which is fine and simple and just what I wanted really.
Then after a few months I discovered I could send out extra broadcasts, so I started sending out details of the weekly webinar that my lead system does. More recently I realised that Aweber did opt-in forms! That was very timely for me, because I had lots of difficulties with opt-on forms, particularly that mine were never that sexy! I of course have tried them out and found the process easy to follow, with lots of choices. Neat.
Today I decided I should take a closer look at Aweber, to see if I was missing anything else. And I found lots more stuff! For a start they have a newsletter you can opt-in to with lots of helpful hints and tips to get more from your autoresponder. When you opt-in for the newsletter, you get an interesting download about email deliverability, which gives you lots of great tips on this important subject.
An excellent tip they gave was that you should always do a plain text email as well as an html one. I have always thought that it wasn’t worth doing a plain one as well. Aweber helped me see this differently. Doing a plain version shows that you are not a spammer, as spammers tend not to bother with a plain text version. Secondly so many people read their emails on a mobile device of some sort nowadays, and many of these do not support html. Therefore cutting down the number of people who may have otherwise read your email! Ok, I’m sold! Every little helps!!
Aweber also do something else I didn’t know about but now plan to use! I know a little about RSS feeds, but not much. (My next article topic quite probably!!) Well apparently I am not alone, 97% of people do not know how to subscribe to RSS feeds! Wow! What Aweber do then, is to do a ‘blog broadcast’ of your RSS feed to all your opt-ins!
What they do is everytime you post a new article on your blog, they take this from the RSS feed and turn it into an email for you. You set it up in Aweber (start under messages), choose your template and Aweber do the rest. It can be send whenever you blog, or just on certain days; however you want it. You can also review the broadcasts before they are sent if you want to. Amazing stuff.
Aweber are also on Twitter, so you can follow them @Aweber. Follow them, you can offen pick up more tips from them, and they are always monitoring when people talk about Aweber so they can help anyone who is having problems. This is exactly why Twitter is so good for business!
Also, they do regular webinars to help with everything from basic set up to doing opt-in forms, great for those of us who are not technically minded and often need help.
Aweber, who knew there was so much to them? Dig a little deeper you guys!
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