Aweber is really starting to tick me off

[Russell Hall]

Hey George,
why not try using MailChimp? They have a very user friendly interface and great service that's on par with AW & GR . Forms and admin is easy and they've even got a WordPress plugin which is quite neat.
Cheers, Russ
PS,.. I loved your stuff on Google Sniper and looking forward to more videos and the roll out!

[Tony Dean]

I've been through a lot of these autoresponder services and not one of them is worth the money you pay them

I had an account with Constant Contact and after about three weeks they shut down my account saying:- "In your industry (internet marketing) we suffer a lot of spam complaints."

Not that I had any spam complaints from my already double opt-in list!

Another one that gave me hassle was StreamSend they said the kind of emails I was sending was not what they would want to allow from their system. All emails were promoting Clickbank products!

I have now studied the market for my own dedicated server and there are companies out there that will lease you a dedicated server for as little as $30 a month! You put your own bulk mailing program (I am going to use StarterMail - the free version for one ip address) on there and no-one tells you what to do!

[Multinetting]

I recall a while back signing up to one of Mark Joyners give aways. It was single opt-in with no immediate follow up email. So this idea that it protects you from spam complaints for double opt-in didn't seem to bother him. Maybe it was a one off.

[Stu784]

Originally Posted by Eric Lorence

Just export and download the csv of your list, and import it to another company.

It's just a database.

So If I already have a double opt in email list I purchased (not created via an autoresponder) can I import this to Aweber, GetResponse etc etc and then start to email them with free info and offers etc?

To re-qualify this list, I was thinking of sending out an offer and then ask interested parties from this list to re-opt into a new list where I would put them onto a follow up email course/ product via an autoresponder.

At the moment I believe I need to buy a piece of desktop software or hire a company to 'email blast' to the list I bought and then pay into an autoresponder service to use in conjunxtion with the email blast to manage interested parties from the original list.

I want to get this right first time and don't want to become labelled as a spammer.

All advice welcome.

Thanks,
Stu.

[JD Nunes]

I love AWeber but it does have its limitations. That's why I'm working on other things, like Infusionsoft, my own software, perhaps I'll also use services that allow coreg.

[zapseo]

(Got bored with so many posts saying about the same thing):

Why search all over the Aweber site looking for the answer to either "where can I set a list to double opt-in or not", or "why can't I select a list to be single optin" when you can use the very handy and useful LIVE SUPPORT. It works. They ARE helpful. I've used them dozens of times.

On my account (which is one of the "older" accounts) I have both single and double opt-in lists. I can create new lists and they can be set to be either single or double optin. However, no matter HOW I set my list up, I WILL be asked to set up the information for "double opt-in". Yes, even for single opt-in lists.

Here's why:

(Information obtained from using the handy aweber live support mentioned above, btw): Even in a single opt-in list, there may be reasons that a particular subscriber may be asked to double opt-in. This happened to me when I signed up to one of my lists from my computer, instead of from a website. I believe it was the condition of "no referrer" that caused aweber to require my sign up to use a double opt-in. I'm sure there are other reasons. (If you are curious, did you know that you can see what url your subscriber signed up from? Could provide some useful information!)

But I can appreciate the annoyance with the 50% complete, etc.

My major annoyance is when the "get html" button gets me, not html, but the aweber javascript (the use of which, IMNSHO, is ill-advised. Why depend upon the responsiveness of aweber's servers to determine how long it takes to load your webpage?). I have to click yet another button to really get the html.

Aweber -- change the name of the button. Or provide another button that says, "get javascript."

Okay...my combination of useful information and rant...off.

Live JoyFully!

Judy

PS -- the place where you choose between single and double optin -- it's a button, oddly enough. A big yellow (IIRC) button. Some of you, like me, may have a certain button blindness when you are looking for information and links and things.