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 then make an evaluation on whether they’re going to allow me to import the remainder of the list.
I have to say, it is pretty damn frustrating. When I talk with support to get some real answers on the criteria they are looking for, I get no real answers at all. Just total vagaries.
As I expected while making this switch, I have a lot of subscribers who are failing to re-confirm to the list. I view this as a list-cleaning action, because if people aren’t reading the emails I send them, why have them there, right?
What I don’t know, and what Aweber won’t tell me, is if the low re-confirmation rate means they are going to disallow further imports.
I will report back on how this goes. I know, in the future, I am likely to have some people read this who are thinking of switching to Aweber with existing lists and are worried about this process. So far, my impression is that Aweber is a great company. I dig their system and I am definitely seeing higher per-day new subscription numbers. This could only be because of the much higher delivery rate for Aweber as compared to my in-house system.
So, I’m happy I’m making this move.
My plan B, should Aweber deny the rest of the imports, is simply to send out a mass email on my old system, tell them about the situation, and tell them to go to PCMech and re-subscribe for the list anew.
I hope it doesn’t come to that.
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