Aweber Myth?

People use aweber because its trusted, its been around for years and they know that each member on the list is going to get it as planned. Using your own system can easily get you blacklisted from email providers, its more of an assurance the the mail is sent.

I'm not sure if the company you said has less of a change. As long at the person has opted in for the message, and play by the rules I can not see why you would be negatively impacted.

I dont think its true.
But you know most of the email i got from imnica email server goes to spam folder.

I heard this as well back when I first got started. Not sure how much truth there is to it but I do notice that the aweber mails get I get from people im subscribed to always seem to make it to my inbox while other providers do sometimes end up in my spam... I'll stick with Aweber!

I noticed that in all my optins, Aweber never goes into the spam folder, even though I sometimes delete emails from the same sender without reading it.

Coincidence?

Nope, never heard it. But I would believe it. I've noticed that all the lists I am apart of, I get the aweber ones way more frequently in my inbox vs my spam.

Not true.

Aweber emails have/has/will be going into spam as well, just like how other autoresponders too (as many will agree with me).. That's just how things are- no AR service can say that they have 100% deliverability rates - becouse they don't
Remember, Aweber is just another delivery agent, the final say is with the ISPs on which email that they want to deliver to their user's account and which they don't. Same rules applies for other providers too.

Try checking out whether the guy who made the recommendation is doing an unbiased review.

Now, some idea on how to increase your % of going to inbox. Don't just expect your ESP provider to work out the deliverability. You gotta pull some weight too. Here's some tips:

1. Send relevant and good content always

2. Get your subscribers to whitelist your email (this will make it very likely your email to be always sent to their inboxes all the time)

3. Have your unsubscribe link somewhere apparent in your emails. (Most ESPs have this on standard- but if yours dont- put them in all your outgoing emails, and provide clear instruction on how to unsubscribe. )

4. Don't use bought/rented list.

There was a good thread about this which included responses from the owner of Aweber and Imnica (both Warriors).

Good info there on both sides...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...g-problem.html

It isn't so much who owns the autoresponder system (Aweber, Get Response, Imnica) rather what you put into each of the mails you send out.

I have tried all of them and it doesn't matter which services I use, my emails always go into the Inbox. It's maybe because I've always been consious about what I put in the email including any URL's etc...

I recently changed to GetResponse from Aweber due to problems with Aweber. Now, I know a chorus of marketers were saying Aweber used to be great for them and that GetResponse worked better once they changed. I just changed so I don't know what to say.

Aweber's still good, I'm sure, but I'm going with Getresponse for now. It's a bit cheaper and supposed to have as good or better delivery rates by all the reviews I've heard, the last few months.

I think all the major email services tend to get through providing the quality of the message is good enough. I can't say I've noticed any problem with people sending me emails from Imnica.

The larger companies I believe all work closely with companies such as Google to try to avoid problems which probably explains their success.

Well I do believe this to be true, but I also believe this to be true for getresponse as well as some of the other top mailing services. Getresponse, Aweber, constant contact all seem to be trusted mailers, I seldom see any emails from them get spam boxed.

I've read this from quite a few sources also and wonder the same thing. i haven't yet used Aweber so I can't comment from personal experience, but I know that every time I sign up to a list running Aweber with my Yahoo email, it makes it into the inbox first go.

I'm using Imnica Mail and in Yahoo it also seems to make it to the inbox, but with Gmail its still having a problem, where the email automatically goes to spam until I've gone and clicked the "not spam" button for each sender.

Perhaps Aweber has better relationships in place with email providers and is more of a "trusted" source.

i use aweber, but whats important to me is capturing their contact info as a real estate investor, we are targeting distressed homeonwers, so i get their info, give them a 'free info kit", and i call them immediatly upon receipt of the lead. i dont use it much for follow up, i still do, but not as much emphasis is put on that as it is in IM world

To my understanding if you use double opting in aweber you are on a "cleaner" server and when you use single opting you are in a more "risky" server. I've used many different services and aweber gets me the highest inbox delivery rate.

A few months back, I signed up for inmica on my apps for domains account. All of the signup and new member info went straight to spam. I got a lame message back from their support and closed my account.

Aweber is quite reliable. They are a good service, besides their deliverability they have other benefits.

Personally, I find their reporting system brilliant for a lot of purposes. I have used other providers as well but at the basic level Aweber is the best.

It's probably true, but think about it realistically. The only companies that know the spam rates and deliver rates of their messages are the companies themselves.

They aren't disclosing 100 percent of that information, so we all just have to guess as what it might be.

Ive never heard such a thing.

Aweber and Constant Contact accounts are the hallmarks of the amateur

I am using Awber , its a good service. Previously i was using iContact.

But I had never got problem with both of them.
As per my experience auto-responder service doesn't decide where the mail will go , in your inbox or spam folder. What ever the contain or subject line affects he mail.

The mails with FREE word or some odd contains goes in SPAM folder as i know.

Aweber messages mostly get into my inbox, but not always. So, they're good but not 'knock-out' good.

I have to say months ago, my delivery into Gmail with Imnica was poor - very poor. However, that has changed a lot, at least for me. I am now seeing very good inbox results with Gmail, Yahoo, and Aol using imnica.

I assume they have been working on this, which is obviously a good thing. I also notice all mail from Constant Contact shows in my inbox, no matter who it's from or whether text or html.
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Bruce

Actually I found this true. Ad thats why I switched from Get Response to Aweber !
Aweber is much, much more reliable than others !!

I've always been impressed with Aweber.

I doubt that this is true, but I will say that I have tried various autoresponders and have found Aweber to be the most user friendly. They get my cash every month.

I really think that says it all right there. Without facts, what you have is opinion and that's got to be taken with a grain of salt. Of course he's biased, we all have biases. Mine are quite obvious, but other agendas may be much harder to discern.

Mainstream media or online (and I speak from 15 years of mainstream and online media exp), there's no such thing as an unbiased opinion and knowing that is a good thing because why would you want someone else thinking for you?

As for deliverability. The ESP is key to be sure and that's why we all focus hard on working with ISPs and services such as Gmail to get your messages to the inbox. That's why we work with organizations such as Return Path (Return Path rates our deliverability at 99.3%) to test and rank our deliverability. However, as others have pointed out, it's also up to the marketer producing the email to make sure their subscribers are engaged and expectations managed correctly.

We each have to make our choice based on what solution works best and I respect that completely. We work hard (very hard) every day to provide the best possible service and deliverability for the IMers who use our service. I'm rather proud of our CEO's commitment to this community and I hope my interactions with this community demonstrate that consistently.

As I explained at the Warrior Live Event a couple of weeks ago, my role is two-fold: Outwardly I'm a brand ambassador and inwardly I'm a customer advocate. I'm availabe via PM, Skype or Twitter and always happy to talk.



Regards,
jim

Hi Louie,

The thing with AWeber is that they were one of the first companies around to do exactly what they do. And that's all they do. They specialize in email marketing.

I'm sure there are pro's and con's to any email marketing provider, however AWeber has earned the trust from pretty much every email service provider and will, even from my own experience, land in the inbox 9 times out of 10. They have a high deliver-ability, and are known for that. Getresponse is another very good one which I've heard of a lot of people are now using/ switching over to.

All in all I wish you the best with your choice Louie!