Aweber Alternative | Why You Need an Alternative to Aweber
Posted by: Brian Kindsvater in UncategorizedEver had your emails blocked and blacklisted through no fault of your own?
That’s the problem with using a hosted, third party autoresponder like Aweber.
As this is written, Aweber is almost completely blocked from major email providers …
Yahoo
Gmail
Hotmail
But NOT one word to Aweber’s customers letting them know of the blocks.
This reminds me of when Aweber’s service was hacked and emails were stolen – no notifications were sent by Aweber to it’s customers.
A self-hosted autoresponder script like this one is what you need to have as a backup.
If anything else, as a backup and alternative to Aweber.
When you read the following, remember that you are PAYING Aweber for each subscriber on your list, monthly, even if AWeber is blocked and your emails are not being delivered.
Recent comments about AWeber being blocked:
“[B]asically Yahoo has closed their door to us, but we are working on it. We send the emails out, but Yahoo is blocking them.”
– As reported from an AWeber Customer Representative
“Here’s the REAL deal…
Aweber is currently having TONS of issues with their mail servers being blacklisted and this has been going on for whole month…
Recently – a live chat with an Aweber rep revealed the Aweber mail servers used to send your messages…
After they gave these – a quick blacklist check showed that ALL BUT ONE of the servers were blacklisted…”
– Coby, AWeber Customer
“Yes, Aweber must be having problems. I have a bad problem with getting yahoo people to change from unconfirmed to confirmed on my list. I just created a few yahoo accounts, and tested them. I also had friends with yahoo accounts test my optin also. Nothing was delivered.
My spam scores according to Aweber are 0 for each message.”
– ‘robsterhews’, AWeber Customer
“I don’t think this is restricted to Yahoo either. I’ve just logged in to my Aweber account and every single person who has not confirmed are Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail – nothing else.”
– Annie Pottinger, AWeber Customer
“Just exported my lists from Aweber then cancelled after five years of continued use. I’m going to start sending the emails from my dedicated server …”
– Kane Insurance
“This is one of the downsides to using a third-party autoresponder service to send out your e-mails.
If their servers get blacklisted (for whatever reason) your e-mail deliverability plummets too – even if you did nothing wrong.
Your deliverability is dependent upon what other list owners who are sending from the same IP block are doing….
For me, going the self-hosted route has little to do with pricing at all.
It comes down to one thing: CONTROL.
With my own self-hosted solution, I’m in control of the most important asset in my business – my list.”
– Shaun Oreilly
Keep in mind that email blocks come and go. Hopefully, this will go
The main point is, while Aweber can be a great service it is not necessarily the best service at all times, for every purpose, for any business.
Why be locked into one provider that controls your ability to communicate with your customers and subscribers?
At a minimum, get a cheap autoresponder script and you install and can use as an Aweber alternative when the need arises.
Insurance is always important.
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