My Dad Killed my Business: Learn from my mistake

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So you're wondering: what happened? I logged into my Aweber account today to see this message: 'This account is no longer active, either you canceled it or there were billing issues. Thank you!' Then the panic started to take hold.

I immediately called customer service and was told that I had canceled the account days earlier! Turns out, my dad (who co-owns a 5 figure per month website with me) didn't recognize the charge on the company card and killed the account. Luckily, they were able to recover it. 2 lessons:

1. Back-up daily if you get more than 10 subs per day
2. Explain everything you do to your business partners

Close call!
#business #dad #killed #learn #mistake
  • Profile picture of the author matt5409
    what? surely nobody would be that spontaneous... your dad needs a stern talking to!
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    • Profile picture of the author RAMarketing
      Originally Posted by matt5409 View Post

      what? surely nobody would be that spontaneous... your dad needs a stern talking to!
      Well it's a $1000+ a month, I think that's why he freaked out
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      • Profile picture of the author matt5409
        Originally Posted by RAMarketing View Post

        Well it's a $1000+ a month, I think that's why he freaked out
        lol, even more reason to question it first
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        • Profile picture of the author athenistic
          I know that feeling all to well. One of my clients regularly shuts down his hosting because he never recognizes the charge on his statement. Usually happens once every three months.

          Some people..
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        • Profile picture of the author RAMarketing
          Originally Posted by matt5409 View Post

          lol, even more reason to question it first
          I agree; I think he just likes making sure my heart meds work
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  • Profile picture of the author JRemington
    Do they not back up the lists themselves? I find it hard to believe. Did you get your list back fully?
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    • Profile picture of the author RAMarketing
      Originally Posted by JRemington View Post

      Do they not back up the lists themselves? I find it hard to believe. Did you get your list back fully?
      I got everything back and changed my backups from weekly to daily :-)
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    • Profile picture of the author Coby
      Originally Posted by JRemington View Post

      Do they not back up the lists themselves? I find it hard to believe. Did you get your list back fully?
      Yes, of course the autoresponder service has them backed up on THEIR server...

      ...but if you can't access the account - you can't access your "list"...

      But you should also back them up yourself and save on your server or personal computer or jump drive or something - in case Aweber explodes or something :p

      Make sense?
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Roach
    That's one of the great things about Aweber is that window when you can undo that sort of mistake. Thank goodness you got it back though, that would be a helluva bad day
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  • Profile picture of the author benzwm02
    wow that sucks man
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguel Oliveira
    All these stories are scary... Backing up my list right now.
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  • Profile picture of the author JamesGw
    That wasn't very courteous of him.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stephen Lessey
    Thats a close call.

    Dont have all your eggs in one basket though...backups are fine but to offset the cost try other services like Icontact..mailchip...etc
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  • Profile picture of the author murtuza
    this reminds me of one of my lists that I killed which had 6000 leads...OH ghosh...here are the lessons I learned...

    1. Email regularly to your list, don't get lazy, build relationship.

    2. Promote them offers and tell them to buy, don't feel shy to sell them something or they will get converted into freebie seekers and will never respond.

    3. Build your list on professional autoresponder service. I build my list on a crap autoresponder script on my hosting server and suddenly my hosting server hold a throttle to not send more than 150 emails per hour. I was screwed as I could not transfer this list to a professional autoresponder service as all of them required double optin. Hardly very few of the 6000 leads really transfered.

    I made good money from that list, more than $3 per lead but sadly could not make consistent income out of it. Hope this helps...
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