Aweber or Mailchimp: Best Email Autoresponder

Aweber Vs Mailchimp

Which is the best email marketing software and autoresponder?

- A million dollar question!

Jane Sheeba

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Design and Effectiveness

Aweber

• Professional interface.

• Professional look on forms and email templates.

• Simple and professional emails.

Mailchimp

• Fun interface.

• Forms and emails have a colorful look. But can give a feeling of clutter!

• Emails are customizable, but lacks professionalism.

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Tracking Rate

Aweber

• Built in tracker for email campaigns – real time records.

• Subscriber activity can be tracked based on various parameters.

Mailchimp

• Siteanalytics360 – reasonably efficient tracking service.

• Subscriber activity is in a black box – all you have is some stars next to subscriber’s names.

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Delivery effectiveness

Aweber

• 99% delivery rate (I rarely get bounces).

• Emails don’t end up in spam folder.

• Sharply catches bounces and spam.

Mailchimp

• Far less, I got a lot of bounces.

• Significant number of emails do end up in spam folder.

• Blunt at this!

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List Building

Aweber

• Manage multiple lists.

• Double optin is a must. You can’t manually add subscribers to a list.

• Categorizes based on subscriber activity.

Mailchimp

• Manage multiple lists.

• You can manually add subscribers. – A HUGE drawback.

• Categorizes based on subscriber interests.

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Price Factor

Aweber

• No free account option. You can try Aweber for $1 for first month.

• After the trial period its $19 per month (up to 500 subscribers) and unlimited emails!

Mailchimp

• Free account option is available – up to 2000 subscribers and 12000 emails per month.

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Mailchimp’s premium service and Aweber’s regular service after the trial period will cost you money. But Aweber becomes cheaper when we compare number of subscribers, features and other benefits.

Do you want to make money with your list?

Aweber

• YES MAN!

• You can put links to affiliate products in your emails.

• You can send out emails with a sole subject of pitching an affiliate product.

Mailchimp

• NO WAY!

• You cannot put affiliate links in your emails.

• You cannot send out emails that solely promote affiliate products.

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Mailchimp – Unclear!

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My Take

• I personally love Mailchimp for what it does for free

• But I cannot professionalize my email marketing campaigns with Mailchimp – something was seriously missing!

• I made my choice to go for Aweber, after using Mailchimp for about 6 months.

• Tight budget Tempted to go for Mailchimp

• But you’ll be enjoying much lesser features.

• PLUS: Don’t risk losing your subscriber list (building one isn’t easy) for rules that are unclear!

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Time For A Gift!

As a thank you, I would like to offer you a free gift. My premium ebook “Problogging Action Plan” that

sells for $27. If you decide to go for Aweber through my link you can get my ebook for FREE*! * After you pass the trial period; I will need your transaction details!

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