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Staying ahead by offering more
By admin | October 23, 2008
Yesterday we discussed how the three turtles now had to compete for food with the very fish that were originally intended to be their food. Things can quickly change if you don’t take advantage of them. Had they eaten the fish when they were first added they would not have the competition they do now.
One of the tools that anyone marketing on the internet needs to compete is an autoresponder. I personally use and recommend AWeber. There are numerous reasons why and today they just announced another advantage to set them apart from the competition.
The basic purpose of an autoresponder is to send email at set time frames or allow you to send a broadcast email. There are a few things AWeber has already done to make themselves stand out like
- Great deliverability
- Tracking of clicks and opens
- Allowing you to broadcast multiple lists and removes dupes automatically
- Allow you to create an RSS feed of your broadcasts
But there are others that do this too. Today they embraced Twitter.
You may notice on the side bar of this blog I have my Twitter posts showing. Twitter has become an excellent way for me to keep up and converse with my friends and subscribers.
Now here is why this is important – Now when I send an email I can have AWeber automatically tweet (post to Twitter for me) so those that are not subscribers but have followed me on Twitter can be notified and go read the email online that I just sent.
With all of the spam filters and problems with email delivery this gives me another way to get my message out. It is easy to use and makes another option for people to get the information from me in the way they want the best.
Plus using some of the other tools like Friend Feed can allow me to get that message to others in many social networks. This is the true power of social networking and now my email marketing can be integrated into that automatically.
Check out AWeber and then go to their blog to see how easy this is to add and you can use AWeber to help you be more competitive.
You don’t want to have extra competiton like the turtles do when it is easy to automate things to set you above your competition.
The Turtle Dad
Disclaimer: Some of the links mentioned within this post or posts it may lead to are my affiliate links and in such case I will get compensated for recommending those products. However, I will never recommend something that I don’t personally believe in and I welcome your questions and feedback.
Topics: lessons | 1 Comment »
October 27th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Wow, thanks Mike! I had no idea Aweber had this feature.
Guess I should read their blog more, eh?
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