Something cheaper than Aweber?

There is a saying that has flown around the IM world for a while that says each subscriber is worth $1 per month on average. Now that's out of the way, let's get real.

Every list is different. 1000 people on one list can make millions per month while 100,000 on another list can make peanuts. It really depends. I'd rather have a list of 1000 billionaire buyers than 100,000 deadbeats freebie seekers.

You are not locked in with aweber. Your best bet is to sign up and start marketing to your list (how did you get thousands of subscribers with no email marketing program?). Then if you don't see ROI - cancel.

Why don't you promote aweber to your own list - then it will pay for itself month after month...

As I said I'm not worried about the 19$ per month but for Aweber you have to pay more than $19 if you have more than 500 suscribers!

Excuse me, but I tried the ListWire before going with Profollow.

Perhaps I used the wrong words relating to my description of what happens.
My idea of an opt-in is -

• I Subscribe
• I see a page that tells me to look at my email because I will need to opt-in
• I go to my email, click the link
• I see a page that says Thanks for Opting-in, or somesuch.

With ListWire - You create a webform for on your site so people can subscribe.

• Someone subscribes
• They are told to check their email and confirm.
• Receive email to confirm
• Click to confirm
• Sent to a page where you are shown a list of 5 free offers, you then must choose your offers and click "Yes, send me the details!" or click "No, thanks."
• Clicking "No, Thanks." brings up a second page, a product selling page
• scroll all the way to the bottom and again click "No thanks, I'll pass on this incredible, one-time opportunity, knowing that I may never see it again ..."
• Clicking this brings me to the "Your subscription is now active" page
• with a button there to "Click Here to Continue"
• Clicking on that brings me to the Listwire frontpage sales video.

This is what happens, I thought I would see if my login was still active so I just added the web form back to my site, and signed myself up to my own site using an alternate email.

This is exactly what happens.

Now you say that this does not interfere mechanically with the signup process. I don't believe I said that it did.

Call those extra pages whatever you want. In my simple-mindedness I call them ads. To me, they are ads. Maybe not to you. Maybe not to others.

Just me.

It's free. And for those who want or need free, it's a great value offering them the opportunity to build their list that they wouldn't have otherwise.

However, it is my personal uneducated (since I neither own nor run an autoresponder business myself) opinion that as a subscriber, when I tested it, it put me off. It felt like getting those pop-ups that keep on coming after you've already said no once.

And since it put me off, I felt it would put people I was trying to build a new relationship with off as well.

But as with anything, I tell everyone, try it for yourself. Anytime you using a service or coding that you didn't do yourself, check it out as a someone who would be coming to your website to see how it works, it's the only way you'll know what you're getting and what happens.

After checking out my alternatives, my decision was that it wasn't for me, and chose a paid service instead. ProFollow.