How To Reduce Aweber Cost With These Strategies

TrafficBot - They are not really extra costs. It is just that as your number of subscribers goes above different threshholds, your monthly fee goes up as well. Here's the details: Affordable Email Marketing - Price Your AWeber Account
Be sure to click the link "Pricing For Over 500 Subscribers"

Alright. Let me explain. Imagine you have a list of 2550 subscribers in your list. For this you've to pay $49/month to Aweber. Your 2550 nos. may including the unsubscribes and inactive subscribers and If you delete the unsubscribes and inactive people from your list, i.e if you delete 50 of them, you can save $20. How? when you delete 50 of them (unsubscribes and inactives) your list size will come down to 2500, as per the current payment plan, upto 2500 people, you need to pay only $29. Hope you got the point

Yes, yes.. that's also a good idea. Sometimes I provide the unsubscribe link at the beginning of my message, like this

"(**IMPT NOTE** If you no longer want to receive emails
from me, feel free to unsubscribe by CLICKING HERE. Hitting
SPAM won't work. Thanks )"

For those who don't know how to provide additional unsubscribe link, here is the link to see how it can be done

https://help.aweber.com/entries/2174...subscribe-link

Forgot to mention this, it's very tricky as well when it comes to listbuilding as there are other factors to consider. It's facts like, should I be using double opt-in only and if you would have been doing this for a while you would know it can cost you money particularly when using paid advertising.

The other thing is, you are not sure whether you are doing enough to convert these leads and you would hope one day they may convert.

What seems to happen is we tend to focus on traffic and list building and forget about working on converting. One really needs to be clear what they want to do with the list, and to understand that because you got a list, then conversions are going to be automatic.

So, before you go and delete those inactives, see that you have done all you can to get them to open your emails.

See, it's like having a shop on the high street, many people may pass yours up, some will enter and not buy and some will. If you don't improve your display and shop arrangement, you may suffer a loss whereas if you try and improve things, you would find what works.

So it's within your power to get these people to notice you, after all, they signed up for some reason, they where either curious or wanted what you got, either way, it's your job to turn them into customers, that's where the real work is!

That's just my humble opinion.

I agree with this post. Aweber's tracking system is not entirely accurate. I see consistent divergences between Aweber's tracking and my own custom tracking system (which I add to every link I toss into my Aweber mail outs) when it comes to tracking clicks.

Great advice....I was going to mention this but you did the job just fine

Very good info. But I don't think most of the people read their email in preview pane, may be a small percentage, like you. There are lots of people, will subscribe to your list only to get some freebies and simply ignore your messages or never open their email account at all.

What I do is, I send a notification to my inactives that "your subscription period is ending and if you still want to be in my list, opt-in again or hit the reply button and say 'Yes'. Also I'll provide the "Unsubscribe" option at the beginning of my notification. And if they still remain inactive, I've no option but to remove them from my list.

I hope, you have noted the first point " Delete the Unsubscribes", is that a GOOD advice

Yes, by doing this you can actually delete people from your list that are reading your emails, BUT you wont delete people that have clicked on your links, because Aweber tracks every click as an open.

And if you choose to delete people who haven't opened an email for 3 months that means they haven't even clicked any links of yours and someone like that isn't a valuable subscriber even, if he/she is reading your emails.

So, I think this option isn't really harmful for your list.

To make list management simpler, consider deleting all non-responsive subscribers on a regular basis. For example, I have found through testing that 90% of my sales are made within the first 60 days. Trying to squeeze an extra 10% in sales is not worth the overhead, and would eventually make my lists unmanageably huge. What I do is a monthly culling of subscribers who have not made a purchase within any 60-day cycle.

Heck I just use a plugin for my email marketing needs. Why pay Aweber or any of the others. It boils down to software and ensuring delivery.

1. Blacklist/Blocklist Check - Make sure IP and Domain are clean.
2. Create your Campaign.
3. Execute your Campaign.
4. No Cost/Unlimited subscribers

Right now I am using WP Autoresponder from the WP plugin site. Its free. I modded mine slightly. Very versatile.

Hey Bud,

Thank you very much for sharing your views and I'm very glad to know that many fellow warriors found my post beneficial.

Thanks Rob, this is a problem I have also noticed recently. Each time I open an email on gmail, the images are turned off so the sender might just have it counted as a non opened email.