You came highly recommended and having read this article alone I can see why.

Looks like I have a less than optimal set up of an MT blog and a 1Shoppingcart autoresponder ( remnant of an old installation) which I am frankly making little or no use of. I need a radical rethink here!

Should I ditch the MT installation? I have Wordpress as an optional installation on my server in Fantastico.

Will be reading a lot more over the weekend.

John

Two ways of working with RSS and your autoresponder.

In aweber:

1. “I already have a feed, send all updates to my subscribers.” Use Feed Broadcaster if you have a feed (from a blog or a manually created RSS Feed) and you want subscribers to receive new messages every time you make a blog post or add an item to your feed.

2. “I don’t have my own feed, but I do have messages in my broadcast messages sequence. Publish those to an RSS Feed for me.” Use the RSS/HTML button at the bottom of all broadcast message pages to create a new feed that is hosted on aweber. In this scenario your newly created RSS Feed will be located at
www. aweber. com/z/rss/?yourlistname

When you choose both options here’s how it all fits together…

a) you have an existing feed on your site
b) aweber checks your site and sends updates to your subscribers
c) aweber also adds each update to your broadcast messages folder
d) and aweber republishes the content on it’s domain

Twice the bang for your buck. Hope this helps.

Laura Childs

I haven’t heard from you for 6 months or so! How’s married life treating you?

Now I have to be honest, but I also must say this comment is in no way intended to harm or promote either service.

I have known of a few other marketers (personally) who I worked this through with, who had GetResponse accounts and whose emails I never received. They switched their lists over to aweber (which is no easy feat I hear) and presto their emails started getting better response rates.

All things being equal (?) I do know that aweber has personal contacts with the big email services (aol.com, yahoo.com, etc.) and I believe that’s why more of their messages get through to subscribers. Aweber opens their doors and shows the email providers their opt-in and CAN-SPAM compliance features as well as using a variety of sendmail servers.

I am not aware of GetResponse performing similar best practices but they could be.

I only know what I’ve seen first hand and the rumblings from other website promotion experts in the business.

Great success with your business, and stay in touch!

Laura

There’s a lot of controversy in Canada right now about the bull breeds and to be honest I’m sick over it. My bully put up with many unintentional torture tests from my daughter when she was tiny and never once complained. It’s all how you raise them.

Aweber will take your Broadcast messages for any of your lists, and turn them into items of an RSS Feed that aweber will host on it’s site.

Therefore every time you send your purse subscribers a broadcast message that feed is updated (and it seems, from my tests that some of the RSS directories are notified of the new content).

Now I am not sharing this as some new and brilliant marketing technique as the feed created by aweber is not an optimum feed, but it is an extra link to your site (from a highly trusted source), it requires only one button click (within aweber, with your list selected, under the Messages tab, Broadcast Edit selected, at the very bottom of every individual message you will see the RSS/HTML feed options.

Now aweber has set this up so you can link to and include the urls on your site – but you don’t need to do this to benefit your site’s positioning – especially since you have a keyword rich domain.

Just keep in mind it is for broadcast messages only and the content has the potential to be seen by thousands of people that you might only want to go to your subscribers.

If you are planning on using the RSS-Broadcast feature of aweber just for a keyword rich feed linking back to your site (that doesn’t contain subscriber-only content), create a new list in aweber for this purpose.

Truly though the best part of aweber’s RSS capability is the ‘other side’. The Feed Broadcast where you take your blog’s existing RSS Feed to maintain a blog subscriber base. (The Feed Broadcaster automatically emails your subscribers on every post. Explained in depth here: http://www.smartzville.com/autorss.htm ).

I know this all seems confusing until you give it a whirl. Just login to your aweber account account (with your office door closed and your phone turned off) and poke around in the articles and options until it all starts to make sense.

If you get stuck, leave me a note and I’ll try to clarify further.

Laura

I have never heard of the Pro Version of ARP.

However, I do know a few marketers swear by ARP for being a feature rich and economical auto-responder.

John Barbour recommends this software and would hopefully be happy to answer your ARP autoresponder questions.

Click over to his list building web site, his email address is on the Support page.

Laura

I recommend them because I use them, and think their service and prices are superb! My IP blocks don’t get blocked, I get 24/7 online chat support…

But perhaps best of all – you can do a one click (or maybe 3 clicks – either way it’s fast and easy) of WordPress through cPanel with your Host account!

Need more help? I’ve just posted a new mini walkthrough of how to install WordPress with a cPanel managed host.

Laura Childs

p.s. I promise to reply to all here over the weekend – one by one.

Thanks

Mike