Emailing your list based on opt-in date - possible?

I don't use aweber, but I have to believe they have something similar to what I do.

Rather than worry about a set amount of time, I set up the AR so that it moves people to the main broadcast list after the last pre-programmed followup is sent.

Yes.

There are, in fact, various different possible ways of achieving that outcome, using Aweber's service.

However, I strongly recommend that you do discuss it with Aweber rather than with Warriors, because it's terribly easy to be inadvertently misinformed here by people who are trying to be helpful but who are unaware of some small detail which can turn out to be enormously significant.

The method I use for doing this is an unnecessarily complicated one () which I happen to understand well (that doesn't often happen, with techie stuff), and it suits me very nicely, but I don't suppose for a moment that it's the most sensible way of doing what you want to do. You'll really be much better off with a chat with an Aweber representative than with forum impressions and guesses.

Thanks for the advice everyone!

And double thanks for those links AnniePot - can't believe I didn't find that when I looked through Aweber myself! I'll get the hang of all the technical stuff eventually, haha!

Yep, you can just create a segment based on the email # they are up to and broadcast to that.

But there's a problem when you edit your follow up (autoresponder) sequence. Because aWeber tracks the email # you are up to, it gets confused easily.

Say you had 10 emails in your sequence. You delete email 3. Then you add a new email at the end which is now email 10. Because it thinks it people are up to email 10, it doesn't send out the new email.

Or say you add a new email and immediately move it to be email #2 (in effect you add a new email at #2 in the sequence). It now sees there are 11 emails and so it sends email #11 out to everyone. But email #11 is just the previous #10, so your old email #10 gets resent to everyone - so they get a duplicate sent out.

In your case, you can create a segment for people who are before or after a particular email but if you edit the sequence you need to take this sort of thing in to account.

A better way for aWeber to do this would be to track an index for the mail you are up to (ie each mail in the series would have a number and when you reorder the list it changes the number. e.g. if you add email 11 and then move it to number 2 in the sequence it would keep track that you are up to the 11th email in the sequence and not resend the last email to everyone). But they don't do it this way (yet).

So, a good workaround IMO is to call aWeber and ask them to reset everyone who is up to your last email in the sequence to being up to email 1001.