I love the Aweber Broadcast feature. The more I get to know about Aweber the more I appreciate why the successful marketers on the internet swear by Awebers service.
If you have ever found yourself saying “I don’t have time” then you will absolutely want to pay attention to the contents of this post. By implimenting an automated Aweber Broadcast into your marketing you will certainly grab back some of your precious time.
Here’s How It Works:
You can set up Aweber to automatically send out a Blog Broadcast which contains links to x number of blog posts on your blog (where x is a number you can choose).
I have set mine to 5 as most weeks that’s the number of blog post I publish. So after 5 new blogs posts have been published on my blog, Aweber automatically sends out an email to all my subscribers.
This is fantastic for subscribers who may have missed a few posts, as theycan now click on the link in the broadcast and catch up on what they missed.
A curious thing happens when my automatic Aweber Broadcast is sent…. I have an increase in my blog visitors for that day. I also have an increase in comments, enquiry for service which of course rolls up to income.
Here’s what you need to do to set up your broadcast:
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1. Sign in to Your Aweber Account
If you do not have an existing account, then sign-up or register for a new account. You have to make sure that you have selected the correct Current List. The current list is the broadcast list where you wish to send the blog to.
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2. Point your cursor at “Messages” in the tab menu. Don’t click. A drop-down will appear containing 3 options:
“Follow Up”
“Broadcast”
“Blog Broadcast”
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4. Click on the big green button, “+ Create New Blog Broadcast”
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5. This is where you start to build your automatic Blog Broadcast. Firstly, enter your blog’s RSS feed URL
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6. Select a template and click the ‘Load Template’ button, there are many to choose from
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7. When you click the ‘Load Template’ button, the necessary code for the automatic links will be added to the template area
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8. You may wish to edit the automatic loaded code by including a welcome introduction and close. This is how I word mine:
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9. Change the subject line of the email
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10. Best practice is to create another message in the “plain text” box because not all html messages are accepted. This is easily done by copying/pasting the text from the HTML box
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11. You may now schedule your blog broadcast
Set how many times you wish to send your blog broadcast. You can choose on which day and at what specific time it is to be broadcast.
This is where you can choose to automatically send your email or if you prefer preview it first before sending. All you have to do is check or uncheck “Send Automatically” box.
There are also additional features available like tracking clicks on blog broadcast links and blog broadcast syndication.
I have set my broadcast to be sent automatically whenever 5 blog posts have been reached. I like to track clicks also as this lets me know what interests my readers.
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12. Finally, and most importantly DO NOT forget to save your blog broadcast
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All Finished
When you have set up and saved your Aweber Broadcast, that’s it. Your blog’s newsletter will be sent out automatically to all your subscribers.
Now that’s a time saver!!
If you haven’t the time but want this set up for your business contact Simon to organise a mutually convenient time to have Aweber Autoresponder service installed on your website..
Since discovering this application I have used it each time I post to my blogs. If you are looking to move up the search engine rankings I stronly suggest that you download the SEO Blogger for Firefox and start using it also. You won’t be disappointed.