Comments on: Writing Email Broadcasts And Follow-Ups For Higher Delivery Rates

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:50:12 +0000

The bomb is having yr own hosted autoresponder though.

I would go with AutoResponsePlus3 (ARP3) when you get scale in your list, especially since aweber has been upping their price cos of the added “analytics”.

Plus the mass mkt autoresponders like getresponse, aweber have a lot of junky mailers using their services. (why do you think they cap at 10k addresses?)

By: SkyWatcher

SkyWatcher — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 05:17:50 +0000

I think I need to learn a lot about email marketing by experimenting on aweber.

Is there any other service which is better?

By: James Spinosa

James Spinosa — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:16:19 +0000

Just yesterday I was having an issue with delivery rates with Aweber, so I called them up and talked to a customer support person who cleared the whole thing up for me. Apparently I had a random exclamation point in the HTML which was tripping Gmail’s spam filters.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:23:41 +0000

Cyrus – to better answer your question…which is more suitable for the forum… but I will answer you here.

The reason for having 2 versions is simply because email applications give users a choice of choosing between HTML and TEXT only messages. This is kinda a legacy setting, nevertheless a lot of mobile users (blackberry) read your messages in TEXT only.

When you simply put the same version in both I am shocked this is even working for you because what happens the email sending software in this case aweber, is encoding both sets of copy HTML/TEXT into a multipart message.

Multipart – A content-type which allows email to include multiple kinds of content, such as text, HTML, and binary attachments.

The message has both versions and the USERS system chooses which to display.

It is important to include the Text Version if you are just sending HTML this also helps lower you spam score.

I hope that helps a bit more.

Ruck – I thought I would take this one, but if you have anything else to add please feel free.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:04:18 +0000

Hey Ruck -
Any idea on how to ‘clean’ a list so that it can be imported into aweber? I have a list of 15k emails that are from users that opted into a list of mine that i have been collecting for the past year. However, since i never did much with them, so of the emails are ‘stale’ so aweber is dumping the entire batch. Ive tried several of the windows based email verifiers but all of them either dont work (they dont verify the address works, just the domain) or they actually send an email and get my ip flagged as spamming. There has to be a solution to this as I have every right under the CAN-SPAM laws to email these users, yet aweber is making this very difficult. Any advice?
Nick

By: Ruck

Ruck — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:59:14 +0000

using http:// in your text would make the link clickable

By: Cyrus

Cyrus — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:26:27 +0000

Hey Ruck, some easy questions for you or any other readers..

1. I’ve been sending out newsletters on Aweber for a few months now. I usually put them together in the HTML window and when i’m done just copy past into the test window as well and send it out as both…..but I’m wondering why I even do it. I only have a few friends that I actually know who are on the list and they all tell me that it always come through as HTML. Are there some people out there who are getting the text only or am I wasting my time sending it out as both?

2. Another easy one. Can I insert a link into a text email or do i have to rely on people copy pasting any URLs I put in there.

Thanks,
Cyrus

By: Ruck

Ruck — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:47:41 +0000

Every 10,000 leads Aweber will tack on another $9.95 a month. As far as building my mailing lists, just read the blog.

By: sparky

sparky — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:19:04 +0000

How do you go about building your mailing list? Is Aweber’s cost based on your mail list size so that when you’re just starting out with a list of 2, the cost is a lot lower than when you’re cooking along with a list of 200,000 ?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:01:37 +0000

For me. posting a note with a LOT of WORDS in ALL CAPS seems to increase the SPAM score as well….so DON’T do it.

By: DEREK VANDERPOOL

DEREK VANDERPOOL — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:14:45 +0000

My own personal experience, is that I can never get the spam score down when I use the html emails provided by the CPA’s. The text ones are so boring, but they seem to get delivered.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:07:44 +0000

Ruck if you or anyone need any help on this I happen to be an email expert. I am referred to king of spam at work being how I managed, design and suggest ideas for managing our owner database of company emails for Starwood.

A great resource for what can and can’t be done can be found online at campaignmonitor.com in their resource section.

It amazes me at the quality of code that these NETWORKS put out for publishers to grab.

Something needs to be done about this because the emails are such crappy invalid code that most novice email marketers will never get past even crappy email filters.

Well enough about that maybe one day network will wake up and stop accepting garbage code for emails.