AWeber Enhancements for Blog Broadcasting

Posted by Shawn Collins on January 18th, 2008 | 9 Comments

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I just saw on Andy Beard’s blog that AWeber has added some really useful features to their Blog Broadcasting service.

I use AWeber on a number of sites for my newsletters, as well as enabling people to double opt-in to receive blog updates via email, rather than RSS.

In the past, the Blog Broadcasts had limited options, but now they’ve rolled out a bunch of scheduling features:

Schedule which day/s of the week â€” or which dates of the month â€” you want to send your email newsletter
Choose what time of day you want your blog readers to get your email
Want to send on Tuesdays and Fridays? Or on the 15th and 31st of the month? No problem! You can choose up to 4 frequencies per blog.

Also, Andy reports an exclusive…

In the announcement Justin Premick (of AWeber) mentioned

“This is just one of a number of enhancements we’ll be making to the Blog Broadcast tool. Stay tunedâ€¦”

I probed a little deeper and we can expect to have counts reported to Feedburner in the near future, but no specific time frame.

The scheduling adds some welcome flexibility to the AWeber Blog Broadcaster service, and I am very excited about having all of my subscriber numbers in FeedBurner.

Happy Friday!

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On January 18 @ 3:00 pm Andy Beard said

I am hoping people will start using this rather than for a newsletter to be just used for special broadcasts. I am not a big fan of “I have just posted a new article to my blog titled….”

The scheduling is important, sometimes I go a week without publishing anything, but on occasion I have been known to write 5+ articles in a day if lots of things are worth writing about. Sending 5 emails to people in one day would put a strain on a relationship.
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On January 19 @ 10:46 am Juuso said

Hi Shawn, your RSS feed doesn’t seem to work okay… I get an error when trying to subscribe.

Cheers
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On January 19 @ 11:03 am vhxn said

Nice info about AWeber.
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On January 19 @ 11:15 am Cyrus said

Thanks for this update Shawn. I’ve been using Aweber for about 3 months now and have been happy so for, but I now I realize that there’s still so much that I’m not using it for.
Cyrus (new reader enjoying your blog immensely)
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On January 19 @ 11:21 am Shawn Collins said

Thanks Juuso -

I have been trying to troubleshoot the RSS ting for the past day.

It turned out to be caused by a plugin I installed on Thursday.
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On January 20 @ 3:34 am Kidblogger :: Carl Ocab said

Man, that would be so useful!

I’m on getresponse though. Do they have that feature?
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On January 20 @ 9:07 am Shawn Collins said

Hey Carl -

Back when AWeber started offering the service, I don’t think anybody else was doing it.

I haven’t heard about GetResponse or others providing it, but I could be wrong.
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On April 30 @ 8:50 pm Norhafidz said

Would love to try AWeber later on when my budget stabilize, I’m just using a free version of getresponse
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