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Approaching 25k on aweber.. Whats my next move?

by Suthan M
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Well, with one of my aweber account, i am fast approaching 25k in subscribers. As you guys know, after 25k, you officially go into the "ask for a quote" price, and I dont think that would be cheap. :p

So here's the dilemma. What will you guys do?

1. Open a second Aweber new account?
2. Continue building on the original account.
3. A creative mix, try to find a Aweber reseller who gives a cheaper price (but i am not sure whether they are any still on the old pricing)

What will you guys do?
#25k #approaching #aweber #move
  • Profile picture of the author David Keith
    stick with one account, keep your life simple.

    their price per "extra" subscriber goes down as you get more subscribers. as you will see from their listed prices, the cost goes up with more subscribers, but the cost per subscriber goes down. thus making it cheaper to run one large account instead of several smaller one. not to mention it is easier.
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  • Profile picture of the author JennSpencerIM
    One account all the way. There's no way I'd try to juggle multiple ones especially with cross-promotions and worrying about someone being on two lists or needing to log-in to different places to edit/unsubscribe folks. We use Icontact and just kept increasing as we went along...got up to 100,000 before we had to do the "ask for quote" but it was worth it regardless!
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      4. Cull the deadbeats and non-respondents.
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      • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
        Originally Posted by myob View Post

        4. Cull the deadbeats and non-respondents.
        actually, I was about 28-29k-ish before this..

        I took out all those spam emails, the inactive list, and asked Aweber to delete the unsub list.. All those are gone now ..I actually do clean-up regularly like 3 months once

        I am right about 24.900 right now after the recent "spring cleaning"..

        Did that so i got to pay the less than 25k price for this month lol when the account is due in the next few days..
        (forgive me if i am trying to be cheap.. I am an Asian after all :p)
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        • Profile picture of the author myob
          Another option you might consider, one which I have with a list of nearly 700k, is a self-hosted autoresponder such as autoresponseplus.com. The overall cost, including dedicated server, is less expensive than what you're paying now.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brian Cashins
    Keep building the original list and start seeing who your players are and who's opting out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    Wow Paul.. 700K is one freakin huge list :-)

    That said, how is the deliverability if you use your own hosted solution? I have this belief that the rate of deliverability will go down as Yahoo/Gmail gets the random spam complaint/unsub emails and they will rate the domain down. Is this perception true?
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    • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
      Originally Posted by Suthan M View Post

      Wow Paul.. 700K is one freakin huge list :-)

      That said, how is the deliverability if you use your own hosted solution? I have this belief that the rate of deliverability will go down as Yahoo/Gmail gets the random spam complaint/unsub emails and they will rate the domain down. Is this perception true?
      you'd want to set up DKIM, rDNS, sender ID... and signup for the feedback loop program with the yahoo, etc. I've just started going through this process myself, after using aweber for several years.
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    • Profile picture of the author myob
      And to begin with, the software (autoresponseplus.com) itself is totally awesome, as well as being hosted on a dedicated server; not on any of my domains. You can set the bounce rate, for example. I have the bounce rate set to 3; three undeliverable bounces and you've struck out. Also, unsubscribe links are clearly labeled and posted at the top and bottom of all messages with very clear messages that we don't hold captives. In addition, anyone that doesn't buy anything within any 120 day period gets sent down the chute and out the back door. The list is always clean because I don't mess around.
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  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    ok, this sounds exciting. Never considered going on a hosted solution before.

    BTW, does this take a lot of maintenance, or any other work to keep it up always?

    If anyone else has a different idea, would love to hear your opinion too.
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