You might think that the reason or reasons why Aweber sucks is because of the following:
- Email Deliverability Issues
- Forcing You to Be Either Double Optin or Single Optin But Not Both Like A Real Email Service Provider or Autoresponder Service Who Cater to Real Businesses That Use Permission Based Sending Practices and Have Legitimate Reasons for Having Some Lists Double Optin and Others Single Optin.
- Not Sending Your Newsletters Out on Time As Reported Constantly by Marketers
- Inability to Follow Up with Users Who Have Not Confirmed Their Optin Which is A Brilliant Marketing Strategry that Works and Many Permission Based Senders Use
The real reason Aweber sucks is because it only allows you to queue your autoresponder messages by how many days in the future but NOT by which day.
Think about it. Aweber sends the messages a day later, three days later or whenever no matter what day it is. It could be on Monday which could be your worst day for email opens.
Or what if they send it Wednesday when your best open rates across the board are Thursday depending on if Aweber actually sends it out on time.
So what if you could still keep using Aweber despite all that is rational and send out your autoresponders by what day?
You can now send your autoresponder messages at the best days your subscriber is most likely to open them. Matt Haslem has a killer piece of software called Autoresponder Upgrade that will work with Aweber to do this. It is reasonably priced too.
Go checkout Autoresponder Upgrade because Aweber really does suck for this.
ttys,
big jason
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I definitely agree but aweber works for me! =)
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I can understand where you are coming from here! But I’m still gonna keep using them.
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You know Jason, that would be awesome if they did this! It sucks that someone has to make an add on to provide marketers with this functionality.
You’d think that would be easy to implement!
I can definitely see the benefits of having this feature. But then again, it will only matter to those that actually test stuff like this
Jason
Interesting… any other services you recommend instead of Aweber?
Thanks in advance for sharing links, suggestions and so on.
-Mig
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Aweber sucks donkey b***s! Their customer service sucks. The people in charge of the people that suck, also suck…and so on.
Do not waste your time with these losers. I will build a fire and send smoke signals before I ever did business with these idiots again.
I ran into a problem and instead of taking care of it and helping me the chat rep took forever to respond. She took her time about responding until I threatened to cancel. At that point she was “johnny on the f’ing spot”. She couldn’t get my account number and password fast enough.
I give Aweber an F-
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