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List building with your blog
By Mike | June 24, 2008
Today’s question:
Hey Mike–I have a two part question about list-building. First, I know you like AWeber as an autoresponder, but are there any free or cheaper services that would suffice for someone who is frugal? And if someone did use an alternate autoresponder, is it possible/reasonable to transfer your list to a different autoresponder down the road after building a decent list?
Yes there is no doubt that Aweber is my favorite.
Feedburner has a service that will allow you to collect emails and have your updates emailed for you like AWeberr does. To the best of my knowledge you can’t send any other emails through it though.
For example when you sign up here I send out a series of blog traffic tips along with the updates from the blog. I also have the capability to send a broadcast when ever I want to. I don’t but I could.
The problem of moving a list from any autoresponder service to another is a different issue.
Any good service will require an imported list to re-confirm. This will cause you to lose the majority of the list usually. Now that is not necessarily a bad thing.
It will allow you to sort out those that are really interested.
Now the final point is about being penny wise pound foolish. My personal feeling is that if you can’t make the cost of AWeber work for you in very short order you need to really look at what you are doing. I have been doing a whole series at Mike Paetzold Recommends on business building and setting up business systems.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
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June 24th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Hey Mike,
I am also a frugal type of marketer. Not only do I use many free and low cost tools and services, but I also promote many of them to my readers and list members. I even use the really exceptional ones to build my list.
When it comes to a list managment and autoresponder service,I only use and recommend Aweber.
Its important to know up front that your list is your business, and to chance its managment on anything except the best available is playing with fire.
There are several good services out there that may save you a couple of bucks every month, but why take the chance with the one and only asset of your internet business.
Don’t take my word for it. Take a look at your inbox everyday and see how many successful marketers use the big A and how many use all of the others.