Home Business Research
AWeber Program Guide
AWeber has been in business for
at least as long and most likely longer than Home Business Research which means it is at least 10 years. They have
been a main staple of the Internet marketing world for a long time and still command a very high percentage of
market share among those who use autoresponder email communications.
As far as I can remember they have always taken
the "high road" within the email marketing sector of the Internet. I am not saying that they are the only ones to
do so but in my own dealings with them they have always operated above board. I have been personally dealing with
them for several years now so I have a very good understanding of how their system works. I have no other business
relationship with them with other than as an affiliate for their system.
The AWeber autoresponder system is an Internet
based system, that is it is housed on their servers not yours. In a nutshell you supply opt-in names through forms
or pop-ups on your site(s) and they manage the opt-in process and deposit the opt-in name in your account under
your specific autoresponder name. That is a very simplistic definition of what AWeber actually does. They do not source names, you do. They do not write email copy, you
do. They do not design forms, you do.
The legal way in which to get an opt-in email
name is as follows:
- You advertise on your site that you have a newsletter,
or some other publication or just a mailing list.
- You have a form (Easily designed on the AWeber site)
that asks for an individuals name and email address.
- This form is sent to AWeber Under your
account.
- AWeber retrieves the name and email address and asks the
individual to confirm that they are interested in receiving this information or
interested in joining your list.
- The individual must respond to this
request.
- Once the individual responds they have subscribed
to your list or in other words they have opted in. . They are now CAN SPAM compliant.
- AWeber deposits the opt-in name into the
autoresponder account that you designated.
- You can now freely send this individual
information about your site or your products.
This does not mean that you can send them ten emails per day for several months.
It means that you can now communicate with them about what you sell on a regular basis.
In this review I will evaluate AWeber on three levels:
Ease of Use, Service level performance and Customer
Service.
Ease of Use: Rating 9 out of 10
The AWeber interface is clean and very easy to use. Your main page consists of
your autoresponder lists of which are unlimited, which means that you can have as many as you need. An
autoresponder file is anything you wish to create for example if your site is Mike' s Bike Shop.com you could have
a form on your home page that asks the viewer if they would like to be on your mail list for general news about
Mikes Bike Shop.com. This form would be created on the AWeber site and you would paste the html into your web page
software.
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