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What I need to know before removing unsubscribers from my aweber list

by KarimPPC
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As you probably know aweber charges you per subscriber, even the unsubscribers on your list. And when you rack these up high they can cost money.

I'm looking at possibly 1000 unsubscribers in the fat loss market. (don't worry got around 3000 who are still subscribing )

Anyway I was about the delete them and then I read on awever that deleiting them will mean that I lose out some stats.

1) What stats do I lose you?
2) What can I do to save these stats?

Cheers.
#aweber #list #removing #unsubscribers
  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    To my knowledge, once you delete a list, it stays deactivated for 30 days, then it's gone forever. As far as the stats that you won't be able to see, you won't be able to view your subscriber count, create messages, or see who the people are who are subscribing to your list. As soon as you reactivate your list/autoresponder, all of these stats appear again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    Randall,

    He's not deleting the list. Just the addresses of the folks who unsubscribed.

    Tiger,

    If you're not using the stats you'd lose, you're not losing anything important to you.

    You'd basically lose things like how long they stayed subscribed and which follow-up they unsubbed at (if any). Monthly, weekly, and daily subscribe and unsubscribe totals would be skewed. Stuff like that.

    You can always screen capture that data before deleting them, if you want to keep it for historical purposes.


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    • Profile picture of the author KarimPPC
      Originally Posted by Paul Myers View Post

      Randall,

      He's not deleting the list. Just the addresses of the folks who unsubscribed.

      Tiger,

      If you're not using the stats you'd lose, you're not losing anything important to you.

      You'd basically lose things like how long they stayed subscribed and which follow-up they unsubbed at (if any). Monthly, weekly, and daily subscribe and unsubscribe totals would be skewed. Stuff like that.

      You can always screen capture that data before deleting them, if you want to keep it for historical purposes.


      Paul
      Thanks for the reply, it's nice to know there are sane people on here.

      So before I delete them what sort of data should I look at? I'm gonna try and export the data for when the user unsubscribed. So at least I have some figured saved locally. Apart from that. I'm guessing I don't need to save any other data,

      Also do you think I should delete the inactive users who have participated ZERO to my communications, like never viewed an email, never clicked a link (most likely gone to spam methinks). Or is there beenfit to keeping them. Probably cost less than $10 to keep on the list per month, so there is always a chance of a sale when you have 300 of them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Myers
    Also do you think I should delete the inactive users who have participated ZERO to my communications, like never viewed an email, never clicked a link (most likely gone to spam methinks). Or is there beenfit to keeping them. Probably cost less than $10 to keep on the list per month, so there is always a chance of a sale when you have 300 of them.
    Judgment call. There is no universally correct answer for that one.

    Be careful about believing the "never viewed an email" notion, though.

    Unless I click on a trackable link, I could be on a list for years without you knowing I'd looked at anything. I usually don't load images in HTML mail, so I don't register to the trackers.

    It's just a matter of not caring how pretty the pictures are. If you don't have something to say that's at least interesting based on the text, I'm not wasting my time with the graphics.


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