Aweber??- Subscribing 1 subscriber to TWO lists? - How ?

Not sure if you can automatically sign them up for a different list, but you can send the same emails to more than one list.

Sorry, just checked on that, and it looks like you can only do it with a blast, not a follow-up.

This is easy, create a list 6 (you huge list) and then go to each of your list1, 2...5, and hit automation under the list menu, and create a new action. The action will be, "subscribe to list 6 when leads subscribe to list 1", and then you do it for list 2, 3...5. All the subscribers will be automatically get into the list 6 (master list), then you could send newsletter to list 6. Hope this helps

cswjohnni's answer is spot on. Automation rules are the way to do what you're talking about. If you're using it in the manner described, there's no problem there.

Here's a KB article describing the process in a bit more detail with screenshots that may be helpful. As always our Customer Solutions team is here 12 hours a day to help if you have specific questions.

Can I Add Subscribers to More Than One List At Once? :: AWeber Knowledge Base

Thanks....this is what I was wondering too...

Do you know if aWeber will then make the users opt-in to both lists?

Yup, that's how Aweber's billing system works. A bit tricky, if you ask me...

Create a rule using aweber
When someone subscribes to list A they also subscibe to List B
Its easy

What if you want to offer as many free ebooks as possible on different subjects, and john doe decides he wants to grab 3 of them. I only want one list, so how do i avoid him signing up 3 times to the same list ? Will a message appear on the second subscribe telling him he is already subsribed to the list ? This then throws up the problem of creating 'one off' emails, just to get the other 2 ebooks ? In otherwords, will the 3 subscribers be merged as one when being moved from small list to master list ?

cheers,

gary

Regardless of the Aweber billing system and how many subscribers you have, I do something a little different with Aweber and my lists.

I always create two lists for each product.

List 1 - Prospects
List 2 - Customers

Everyone opts-in to my Prospects list. They then start receiving my Prospect follow ups. When they purchase, an automation rule kicks in that drops them from the Prospects list and adds them to the Customers list.

This does several things.

1.) It segragates them. I want to separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak. I want to know who the BUYERS are and who the lookiloos are. My prospect list may have 20 follow up messages trying to get that sale. If they have not purchased my product by then, I hold them for a pre-determined period of time and then I delete them. No sense in paying for something of little value.

2.) It allows me to treat them differently. Once you are a customer of mine, you start to reap the rewards. Discounts on new products, early bird specials, free stuff, etc. They are part of the family now. And I know they are BUYERS. I don't want them getting more sales material for the original product after they have already purchased it either.

3.) It keeps my lists clean and of high value. I know that when I do a JV or an Ad Swap with someone, I can almost gaurantee sales from my Customers list. The Prospects list, not so much.

Anyway... I thought this was something missing from the conversation and I hope you find it useful.

Best of luck
Darrin

This is a good discussion and there are a couple of important summary points that need to be made.

1) Yes, you can automatically subscribe a user from one list to a 2nd list. But Aweber WILL send an opt-in confirmation message even if you do not use confirmed opt-in. This is because Aweber needs evidence that the person wants to be on your other list.

2) Doing #1 above for the purpose of list aggregation is pointless since you can send emails to MULTIPLE LISTS with Aweber anyway.

3) If you create the "big list", you're duplicating the number of subscribers in your account and therefore doubling the cost of your account with Aweber. This is not a guess, this is fact.

4) YES, it absolutely makes sense to keep a separate email list for customers of your products. You should automatically unsubscribe customers from your leads list.

5) You should occasionally go in and delete unsubscribes so you don't get billed for them. Aweber DOES charge you for them as long as they are stored in the database.

Now a question for you all: If you're doing list segmentation, did you know it's really easy to auto-populate an optin form?

For example say you have a large list and it's a "general health" list. You want to send them a series of promo emails on building muscle. You know it will only appeal to some of your audience, so the first message goes to a squeeze page where you offer the first bit of info, and then you ask them to confirm their interest in the rest of your series.

Andre Chaperon teaches this in his ARM course, BTW. Very powerful. BUT, I hate the idea of asking people to take unnecessary actions (typing in their name / email all over again).

Since you already have their email address, you can very easily pre-populate your optin forms with their data.

I'm thinking of making a tutorial on this exact topic. Would it be of interest to you? I'll just post it on YouTube.

Unfortunately, Aweber does not allow you to combine the current list of subscribers that you have into 1 huge list.

I forget the reasoning behind this, but essentially you will need to get the subscriber to opt in once again to join the other list.

You can also manually enter in the email onto the list... but the owner of the email will be sent an email asking for confirmation.
No way around this.