I have published email newsletters for many years now. In the beginning, I made the huge mistake that many marketers and website owners make and tried to send to my list from my hosted server. In fact, before that I was foolish enough to send from my personal ISP email account. It doesn’t take long to realize your emails are being filtered and in many cases blacklisted. Now you have much bigger problems than list building.
The fact is, unless you have the time and ability to become an expert in the field of email deliverability and list management it is best to leave it to those that do it for a living. Once I realized I needed a professional list management service I made yet another big blunder. I went on the cheap. I started building a list with a third rate small time service that isn’t even online anymore. They say that third times the charm and in this case they are right. I finally got my act together and signed up for an AWeber account.
Learn From My Mistakes
I had to start over three times and I lost a lot of ground during this learning process. You can save yourself the trouble if you are new to list building and email marketing by starting with AWeber in the first place.
I now use AWeber exclusively with all of my lists and I haven’t looked back since. AWeber is simply the best list management service and autoresponder available. I’m not even going to bother listing the benefits and features AWeber provides their customers, there are simply too many. You can visit their site and get an idea of what they have to offer. Once you get started with AWeber you will see exactly what you have been missing and, more importantly, what you need to build a quality list.
My review is based on personal experience and, yes, I am an affiliate. If you would like to bypass my affiliate link and go directly to their site that is fine. I still recommend them and encourage you to give AWeber a try. Here is my affiliate link and here is their direct link.
November 8th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
I am using my own developed newsletter software for my newsletters. Your article though made me sign up for an aweber account. I have to try this tool eventually anyway, so i signed up on your affiliate link
Good writing!
November 8th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Hi McHow2, I was just visiting your site a little bit ago. Thank you for using my link. I think you will be happy with the service. I also tried sending my newsletter from my computer at one time but I couldn’t build my own software in a million years. I don’t know if you had the same issues but I found that I was beginning to get blacklisted everywhere. In fact, only recently I am able to send friends with Comcast again and that was blacklist from several years ago.
If you have any questions at all feel free to contact me personally. I’ll do whatever I can to help. http://help.csc4u.com/