If businesses wish to grow, they can never ignore marketing and there are many email marketing tools at their disposal which can help even the smallest businesses. AWeber (begins at $19 per month) which offers an easy-to-use platform with no surprises. This services templates simplifies the process for designing visually attractive email marketing campaigns along with the important statistics. It cant import contacts from Gmail or any other third-party address books, and doesnt offer Google Analytics integration. Coming to the costing aspect, AWeber will cost any small business with 2500 contacts around $29 per month to get started along with facility to send unlimited messages that can be sent in a month. It offers a 30-day free trial.
It also requires billing information and you need to send an email to support in order to cancel your trial version. When you sign up, AWeber’s also displays the email address you have to use to cancel.
If businesses wish to grow, they can never ignore marketing, and there are many email marketing tools at their disposal which can help even the smallest businesses. AWeber (begins at $19 per month) which offers an easy-to-use platform with no surprises. This services templates simplifies the process for designing visually attractive email marketing campaigns along with the important statistics.
It cant import contacts from Gmail or any other third-party address books, and doesnt offer Google Analytics integration.
Coming to the costing aspect, AWeber will cost any small business with 2500 contacts around $29 per month to get started along with the facility to send unlimited messages that can be sent in a month. It offers a 30-day free trial. It also requires billing information, and you need to send an email to support to cancel your trial version. When you sign up, AWeber’s also displays the email address you have to use to cancel.
Its Legacy Followup Messages features provide you the ability to send a series of messages to your new subscribers, which is an added auto-responder option. Another feature called Campaigns, currently in beta version, offers different ways to send auto-responders: by time and day, and also based on subscribers behavior.
You also get the option to pause and stop auto-responders at any time of your choosing. Campaign tracking also lets you see how far your subscribers are within your follow up series of campaigns/emails.
Pricing and Features
This service offers month-to-month, quarterly and annual plans for various tiers. The least-expensive plans provide support for 500 contacts and costs at $19 per month, or $49 per quarter or for an annual subscription, it costs $149. AWeber also adds $10 to the normal rate in case you wish to expand the service to 2500 users and adds around $30 to increase this capacity to 5000 users.
It also automatically sets up for automatic billing and in case you want to stop the service, you can avail 30-day full refund. There is no free trial which you can use to test this service, but this allows you to try out the software at just $1 per month.
Creating a Subscriber List
AWeber allows you to add up to 10 contacts manually, the subscribers, via a form. Each record collects the persons name, email address, ad-tracking value along with the name of the initial email message that person will receive. This can also turn into a tough exercise for a long list of names. The import tool provides the necessary support as it has a textbox to cut and paste any comma-delimited list of email addresses. You can also upload XLS or XLSX spreadsheets, text files like CSV, TSV, and TXT.
With this, we end our review of AWeber email marketing service. In case you avail this service, then dont forget to share your experience with us. Leave a comment in the section below.