Aweber Follow-Up Sequences

JamesPenn · 06-13-2009, 06:57 PM

Hi Warriors

I've been very stupid in the last few weeks. I've been building quite a substantial list of buyers in a new list in my Aweber account, but due to other commitments (such as university exams) I haven't had time to create a follow up sequence for these buyers.

I've got a list of nearly 500 now collected in the last 2 months and the only emails they've been receiving are my broadcast emails.

I want to set up a follow-up sequence for all new subscribers, but I also want the sequence delivered to existing members with the same number of days between each message as specified.

So, for example, I want to add a follow-up message to go out 2 days after people subscribe, but I also want that email to go out to all existing subscribers 2 days from now.

I then want to add a message that goes out 5 days after someone subscribes, but I also want it to go out to existing subscibers 5 days from now.

I hope that makes sense?

I've seen marketers have nightmares when adding a follow up sequence to an existing list where all the emails are delivered to all subscribers at the same time and I don't want to risk doing that to 500 buyers who could prove to be worth thousands of dollars for many months to come.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
James

ECoughlin · 06-13-2009, 07:19 PM

HI James,

Contact Aweber chat support and they will walk you through the whole thing. I wanted to do something similar and they helped me to figure it out. Very helpful folks.

Mawardee(A) · 06-13-2009, 07:45 PM

I think there is a feature where you can determine
which date and which hour you want to publish.

Maybe that's the essential feature for an autoresponder.
I am familiar with Getresponse only.

globalpro · 06-13-2009, 08:54 PM

James,

I don't think you can do the follow up with existing subscribers. They are set up in the follow up section and time to go from there. Probably you need to set up some broadcasts for you existing subscribers, but then they will be picked up for sign ups that come in after that.

Maybe Aweber has a solution for this.

Thanks,

John

Terry Crim · 06-13-2009, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by globalpro

James,

I don't think you can do the follow up with existing subscribers. They are set up in the follow up section and time to go from there. Probably you need to set up some broadcasts for you existing subscribers, but then they will be picked up for sign ups that come in after that.

Maybe Aweber has a solution for this.

Thanks,

John

GetResponse has the capability to restart a series for existing subscribers that either were not getting the series because it was added later or restart a series that has finished.

I am sure Aweber has a similar feature.

- Terry

Will_Surren · 06-13-2009, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesPenn

Hi Warriors

I've got a list of nearly 500 now collected in the last 2 months and the only emails they've been receiving are my broadcast emails.

James, I just want to know your secret to getting 500 optins in 2 months in one niche. That is the average for me for all of my sites. What is your secret. Do you mind sharing the domain name so I can study your work?

Will

Kyle Tully · 06-13-2009, 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Will_Surren

James, I just want to know your secret to getting 500 optins in 2 months in one niche. That is the average for me for all of my sites. What is your secret. Do you mind sharing the domain name so I can study your work?

Will

The secret to 500 in 2 months?

Let's say he has a relatively poor opt-in rate of 20%.

So 1 in 5 visitors becomes a subscriber.

That means to get 500 subscribers you need just 2500 visitors in 2 months... 1250 a month... 42 visitors a day.

So the "secret" is have a half decent opt-in page and get a handful of visitors to it each day.

JamesPenn · 06-14-2009, 04:05 AM

Thanks everyone for your responses.

I'll get onto Aweber about it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Will_Surren

James, I just want to know your secret to getting 500 optins in 2 months in one niche. That is the average for me for all of my sites. What is your secret. Do you mind sharing the domain name so I can study your work?

Will

Hi Will

There's not many secrets. It's just a game of numbers like Kyle said above.

This is actually a list of buyers, meaning that everyone on this list has paid $10 and then they are automatically added to the customers only list.

I pay JV partners 100% commission on the product so I can secure many JVs. My conversions when JV partners promote is between 8%-11% - so with the high visitor value I can easily secure large JVs.

PM me if you would like to see the site.

James

Pat Jackson · 06-14-2009, 05:21 AM

James, this is easy to do. I contacted Aweber about something similar a while ago and this was their response.

Quote:

Yes, however you will need to change the subscribers
message number to start the messages. Click on the
subscribers tab then click on the search button
in the middle of the page to bring up all subscribers.
Any subscribers who has a 1001 in "Mes Column" needs to
be changed to a zero. Then click on the save button.
Once they are changed to message 0 then the autoresponder
will start to go out within the next 24 hours.

So basically, create your follow up sequence, then go to your list of subscribers and make sure in the "Mes Column" next to each subscriber there is a zero.

JamesPenn · 06-14-2009, 06:01 AM

Thanks Pat.

That's exactly what I wanted to know.

James

David Hamer · 06-14-2009, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pat Jackson

James, this is easy to do. I contacted Aweber about something similar a while ago and this was their response......

Sounds like Pat's got a good answer! Just a quick idea - set up separate list (test list) for you to mess about with rather than risk sending mixed messages to your 500 subscribers. Just a thought for the future for similar issues.

I had a weird one where I added a message to my sequence - but it was earlier on in the sequence. My Mum phoned me up saying she'd received the same video twice... I realized I must have shifted the whole sequence along which meant it re-sent the last message in the sequence.

Not sure if that made sense - but point is if you're not sure there are ways of testing it out.

By the way James - your little tip on offering 100% commission to JVs is pretty smart!

Thanks - Dave

zulu24 · 06-15-2009, 11:59 AM

Pat is right. I have set up some follow ups with my list and had questions regarding sequence. Aweber support is great. I have also set up a test list like David suggested to help work out my messages and see how they look. If you have the time Aweber also offers webinars, they are about an hour but I thought it was helpful.

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JamesPenn Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Exeter, United Kingdom. Posts: 1,356 Thanks: 174 Thanked 505 Times in 100 Posts Social Networking	Aweber Follow-Up Sequences Hi Warriors I've been very stupid in the last few weeks. I've been building quite a substantial list of buyers in a new list in my Aweber account, but due to other commitments (such as university exams) I haven't had time to create a follow up sequence for these buyers. I've got a list of nearly 500 now collected in the last 2 months and the only emails they've been receiving are my broadcast emails. I want to set up a follow-up sequence for all new subscribers, but I also want the sequence delivered to existing members with the same number of days between each message as specified. So, for example, I want to add a follow-up message to go out 2 days after people subscribe, but I also want that email to go out to all existing subscribers 2 days from now. I then want to add a message that goes out 5 days after someone subscribes, but I also want it to go out to existing subscibers 5 days from now. I hope that makes sense? I've seen marketers have nightmares when adding a follow up sequence to an existing list where all the emails are delivered to all subscribers at the same time and I don't want to risk doing that to 500 buyers who could prove to be worth thousands of dollars for many months to come. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, James
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globalpro John Burnette War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: S.E. USA Posts: 1,049 Thanks: 659 Thanked 208 Times in 175 Posts	Re: Aweber Follow-Up Sequences James, I don't think you can do the follow up with existing subscribers. They are set up in the follow up section and time to go from there. Probably you need to set up some broadcasts for you existing subscribers, but then they will be picked up for sign ups that come in after that. Maybe Aweber has a solution for this. Thanks, John
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JamesPenn Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Exeter, United Kingdom. Posts: 1,356 Thanks: 174 Thanked 505 Times in 100 Posts Social Networking	Re: Aweber Follow-Up Sequences Thanks Pat. That's exactly what I wanted to know. James
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06-15-2009, 11:59 AM	#12
zulu24 Warrior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 24 Thanks: 5 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Aweber Follow-Up Sequences Pat is right. I have set up some follow ups with my list and had questions regarding sequence. Aweber support is great. I have also set up a test list like David suggested to help work out my messages and see how they look. If you have the time Aweber also offers webinars, they are about an hour but I thought it was helpful.