Does AWeber have better deliverability than GetResponse?

It's really not feasible to tell based on how others fair, because there are so many variables that go into it.

While deliverability rate will almost necessarily play a role in your open rates, it's far from the only indicator. Others might include:
- Brand/sender recognition
- From email address
- Subject line
- Lead generation strategy
- Customization practices (this can tie into how much you actually collect from the users themselves on signup)
- Email copy (ISPs may indeed handle your email inboxing differently when compared to others based on your email's design)
- The particular shared IP address you're on with the provider (some of AWeber's IPs may indeed have better sender reputation than others)

There are probably other things that could play a role as well. Those were just off the top of my head.

As such, I don't know that I would bet the ranch on switching over just yet. I might, instead, ask to migrate a portion (maybe 50/50, since you have no inclination at this point) of the leads, chosen at random. Then, I'd send an identical email through each one, and I'd look for the difference. If you do, in fact, choose to do this, I would take measures to make sure no email is being sent to the same person from both providers. It could fuzzy your results, making the test less reliable.

Just a thought.

I'd focus on doing more split-testing before switching from Get Response to Aweber... I think that they have similar deliver-ability rates anyway.
Good luck
Art

There are also people using Aweber who have lower open-rates than yours, Joe, as well as people using GetResponse who have far higher open-rates.

As rightly observed above, open-rates depend on a complicated multiplicity of factors (some fairly apparent and others far from it!).

I think it's extremely unlikely, given that the two companies you mention are very widely regarded as "joint market leaders" in the autoresponder business, that a switch from one to the other will be the answer you're looking for.

In my experience of this, perhaps the single biggest/commonest factor underlying this complicated and usually multifactorial issue is the extent to which whatever you give people in exchange for their email addresses serves all the purposes listed here. For me (and for many others I know), those were the key factors making the dramatic difference between achieving and maintaining very high open-rates and wondering whether the whole thing was really worth doing at all.

These two threads may also be of relevance to you ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

http://www.warriorforum.com/email-ma...ml#post8661178

Good luck!

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I would say both are good, but Aweber is more "conservative" when it comes to following guidelines.

I personally would go with Aweber as my first choice, although it depends on your preference.

I think majority of email marketing companies that been around for long time have already figured out the deliverability game and more or less all have same good delivery rates.

Getresponse will put you on ips with crappy reputation thus helping you land in the junk folder

Check your server ip at senderscore.org and also send emails to your seed email accounts to see where your emails land.

I am not going to sit here and say one company is better than the other, but I will tell you that I have a the exact same list with both GR and Aweber, and 90% of the time Aweber gets better opens and clicks for me than GR does.

I'll let you draw your own conclusion from that

I agree with Bryan. I have an account with both companies and there is a hands down clear winner. Also, to add, my emails seem to get delivered substantially faster with Aweber v.s GEetresponse.

I have used GetResponse for 3 months and Aweber too for almost 5 months. I personally have found open rate of Aweber emails always greater than GetReponse. Thats why i stopped using GEtReponse and now i am happy with Aweber .....

That just reminded me that I need to cancel my GR account

No need to pay a monthly fee for emails that lands in the spam folder, when I can do that for free.

I used them both. They delivered the same for me.

Aweber won me with the $1 trial month. Clever technique I've got to say.

I used GetResponse just out of curiosity. Superb service there too.

I have from my experience have gotten a much better experience with Aweber. I have a list of about 2,500 in GR and get about 2% open rate. I Have the same list size and niche in Aweber and get a 7% open rate. That is just my experience!

Depending on my low experience in this particular field , i think Aweber is the best.

Yes Aweber has better desirability rate... as I get less failure notification with it.

I think the fact that Getresponse has some dubious tactics in place like adding people to email lists automatically (if they make a purchase for instance), and people then getting bombarded with offers, the spam complaints are higher, hence everybody suffers.

But you can only know for sure by split testing...