Plus, for anyone looking to develop significant offline revenue through regional service-delivery, like speaking or local events, being able to segment the list, at least by zip-code, is mission-critical.

Also, being able to market to your list, independent of your blog content, provdes a powerful additional opportunity.

One reservation with Aweber over Constant Contact (I use both now, for different businesses) is that, to protect against spam, as far as I know, you cannot manually add contacts in AWeber, at least, if you set up your lists as double-opt-in (DOI). That may have been changed since last time I looked, if so, that would be a nice improvement, or just avoid the DOI option.

My concern with that, though, is that your delivery-rates might drop and you may find your list blocked if the list is not DOI.

Much peace,

Jonathan

Plus, for anyone looking to develop significant offline revenue through regional service-delivery, like speaking or local events, being able to segment the list, at least by zip-code, is mission-critical.

Also, being able to market to your list, independent of your blog content, provdes a powerful additional opportunity.

One reservation with Aweber over Constant Contact (I use both now, for different businesses) is that, to protect against spam, as far as I know, you cannot manually add contacts in AWeber, at least, if you set up your lists as double-opt-in (DOI). That may have been changed since last time I looked, if so, that would be a nice improvement, or just avoid the DOI option.

My concern with that, though, is that your delivery-rates might drop and you may find your list blocked if the list is not DOI.

Much peace,

Jonathan

I have been telling anyone who sends me one of these Feedburner post notification emails to try Aweber, but now I can just send them a link to this post b/c you have explained perfectly why they should switch!

I have been telling anyone who sends me one of these Feedburner post notification emails to try Aweber, but now I can just send them a link to this post b/c you have explained perfectly why they should switch!

@Guilherme – A friend recommended I go the open source or plugin route but I want to have a company that I can rely on rather than maintain the technology. It’s a time versus money issue, I feel I get more value this way.

@Phil – I hadn’t but I will check them out now

@Bryan – Looks interesting. Aweber was just the most famous one I had heard of with great reviews. I’m happy with my choice but I am sure I could have done more research and found a great many just as good services.

@shaners – Yes, I haven’t even touched on what is possible with it

@Wendy – I am going to be putting it to the test real soon

@Francis – All in one sounds good but I am not *quite* ready for the shopping cart yet

@Mark – Yes, unique content but I might cross-post as and when it warrants and the audiences diverge.

@Terra – Thanks

@Simonne – The aff program is an advantage but on the other hand it made me wary when researching if people were recommending it just for the commissions. I worked out there were some trustworthy names saying good things so figured it was at least worth a try.

@Ramanathan – I agree to a point but I also agree with Mark Advertising is not a great model for every single service or customer.

@Mark Silver – Agree on all points. I wouldn’t want to build a core of the business on “free”. There are free services I rely on, but I pay for hosting my blog when I could have it on free, I pay for my newsletter when I could use open source, I pay for programming now even though I am a programmer … We all have to make these cost-benefit decisions.

@Guilherme – A friend recommended I go the open source or plugin route but I want to have a company that I can rely on rather than maintain the technology. It’s a time versus money issue, I feel I get more value this way.

@Phil – I hadn’t but I will check them out now

@Bryan – Looks interesting. Aweber was just the most famous one I had heard of with great reviews. I’m happy with my choice but I am sure I could have done more research and found a great many just as good services.

@shaners – Yes, I haven’t even touched on what is possible with it

@Wendy – I am going to be putting it to the test real soon

@Francis – All in one sounds good but I am not *quite* ready for the shopping cart yet

@Mark – Yes, unique content but I might cross-post as and when it warrants and the audiences diverge.

@Terra – Thanks

@Simonne – The aff program is an advantage but on the other hand it made me wary when researching if people were recommending it just for the commissions. I worked out there were some trustworthy names saying good things so figured it was at least worth a try.

@Ramanathan – I agree to a point but I also agree with Mark Advertising is not a great model for every single service or customer.

@Mark Silver – Agree on all points. I wouldn’t want to build a core of the business on “free”. There are free services I rely on, but I pay for hosting my blog when I could have it on free, I pay for my newsletter when I could use open source, I pay for programming now even though I am a programmer … We all have to make these cost-benefit decisions.

Aweber has similar levels of customer service. I pay for services that my business depends on. Free services are great, if they fit the bill, but when my business is depending on something, I’m willing to pay to make sure it actually works, and that there are people behind the website who know me and can help me out.

Aweber has similar levels of customer service. I pay for services that my business depends on. Free services are great, if they fit the bill, but when my business is depending on something, I’m willing to pay to make sure it actually works, and that there are people behind the website who know me and can help me out.

Having said that, I also appreciate their innovative features. Its not long before Google makes these changes available to Feedburner.

Thanks.

Having said that, I also appreciate their innovative features. Its not long before Google makes these changes available to Feedburner.

Thanks.

I’m wondering, Chris- are you going to have different content in the newsletter than you have on the blog?

I’m wondering, Chris- are you going to have different content in the newsletter than you have on the blog?

Love your website & newsletter. I’ve started helping some friends promote their small businesses, and one of the components of promotion is building a newsletter. I’ve been using automatesales.com (a combined shopping cart, mailing list manage),

I’ll have to check out aweber.

regards,

Love your website & newsletter. I’ve started helping some friends promote their small businesses, and one of the components of promotion is building a newsletter. I’ve been using automatesales.com (a combined shopping cart, mailing list manage),

I’ll have to check out aweber.

regards,