How To: Putting the Full Blog Post Into An Aweber Blog Broadcast

OK, time for a quick, technical post. I post these as much for myself for later reference as I do readers.
PROBLEM: Aweber has a blog broadcast tool which does a great job of sending your blog posts out via email. Problem is that it takes the content of that post from the DESCRIPTION field in [...]


Importing List to Aweber - Very Drawn Out

I talked earlier about how I decided to move my email lists over to Aweber. As many who have done this know, it is the importing process that is the most grueling.
Today, I am on the 5th group of 2000 imports into the Aweber system. Tomorrow, they are supposed to review my email list and [...]


Mailing List Solution - Follow Up

OK, I have decided to purchase 1-2-All, from Active Campaign. After comparing to oemPro, I decided against it. oemPro is pretty good, but in the end, price made the difference for me. Today, I sent my first email with the new software. It’s very slick and the more I play around with it the more [...]


Another Good PHP Email Application

As a quick followup to the last post, I have since come across another PHP-powered software package for running an email list locally from my server. That package is oemPro, from octeth Technologies. It runs a little more expensive than 1-2-All ($268 versus $189). It seems to have all the capability I would need, however. [...]


Search For Email Mailing List Solution

I have spent several hours last night and this morning investigating email list services. Since one of the founding philosophies of this site is that you can learn by what I am doing, I thought I would post where this search stands. My situation is this: I have a large mailing list over on PCMech. [...]


Publishing a Newsletter

Today, many websites offer a free newsletter. Newsletters, from the receiving end, can be a great source for information that is delivered to your in-box. You can simply save the newsletter for future reference, something many people do. From the publisher’s standpoint, though, a newsletter is a fantastic idea as it gives you a database [...]