Aweber Review

I've been using aweber for about 3 years now and I don't mind telling you, I had some frustrating experiences with the email responders I used before Aweber.

When I first started sending out my newsletter I used a free autoresponder that came with my hosting service.  It worked quite well for awhile and I began to build a nice email list, but what I didn't realize at the time was that many of my viewers weren't getting my emails because, you guessed it ...a lot of web hosted email servers get "blacklisted".

What's more is that those email servers can act a bit off-beat the more subscribers you get and of course, I was definitely experiencing some of that.  But if you really think about it, hosted email servers are not in email business.  It's not their priority to send emails, in fact they use third party email scripts to send your emails and those scripts typically aren't even supported. So, in a nutshell "they don't care"!  So where does that leave you?  It leaves you without a reliable email autoresponder and most likely a low email response rate.

If you're running an online business then it matters, big time, whether or not your viewers get your emails and newsletters.  It's your biggest form of communication online and it has to be reliable.

Of course there are plenty of free email services out there like sendfree and responsers.com but the problem with the free services is the advertisements that get sent along with your emails.  This gives off a very unprofessional look and can be a turn off to many of your email subscribers. 

Now if you've been using a free email autoresponder it can be a tough decision to go with a paid service, but my business depends on my viewers getting my emails and newsletters so there came a time when I had to bite the bullet and gave Aweber at $19.95 a month, a shot, ...and today I gotta tell you, it was like a revelation.  I was actually getting responses from my emails and not only that ...I had a huge increase in sales! 

But it really comes down to the Aweber features that will keep me a lifelong customer.  I now have access to newsletter templates, message personalization, email stats, ad tracking, spam control, web form generators and an email autoresponder who's in the business of making my email communications a priority.

A couple of really cool new features of Aweber are geographical targeting of subscribers and if you have a blog, you'll love their feed broadcaster.  If you try them out, I know you'll love them just as much as I do :-)

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