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Email Marketing

FeedBurner Footer SlideUp

by Shabbir on July 1, 2010

in Blogging, Email Marketing, Tools

After my second plugin for GetResponse Footer SlideUp I got so many emails and comments asking for similar plugin for feedburner and so created Feedburner Footer Slideup Form plugin for those who still want to be using Feedburner for Email Subscriptions. My personal preference is always AWeber over Feedburner for RSS to email.
Plugin Description
Footer Slideup [...]

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How to Handle User Unsubscribe to Your Advantage?

by Shabbir on June 26, 2010

in Email Marketing

After loosing 30,000 newsletter readers, Go4Expert’s New Newsletter Readership crossed 12k with AWeber but this time I have much more control over the stats, user un-subscription and other inputs from user. AWeber provides an option to get comment from readers when they unsubscribe. As expected majority of them would give you general reason like

Nothing
Misconception
Thanks
Sorry
Unsubscribe
I don’t [...]

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GetResponse Footer SlideUp

by Shabbir on June 14, 2010

in Blogging, Email Marketing

My first ever Wordpress plugin – AWeber Footer SlideUp form crossed 100 downloads in few hours and many user including TerryJett rated it as best plugin of 2010 ( I know it is not ).
We all know AWeber is not the only autoresponder and so many wanted me to have a plugin for [...]

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AWeber Footer SlideUp – My First Wordpress Plugin

by Shabbir on June 10, 2010

in Blogging, Email Marketing

There are many Footer Slideup form’s available but the problem is they all charge for the script and that is not one time fees but month on month fees for the script. Being a developer myself I thought of creating my own and many of my clients as well as blog users asked the same [...]

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How to Get Subscribers to Whitelist You

by Shabbir on May 24, 2010

in Email Marketing

Although emails from AWeber are already whitelisted on an ISP level, emails may be filtered on an individual level. So it is very important to make your readers understand what to expect with the subscription and make sure you get place in your readers’ inbox in a folder which he checks regularly.
First impression is the [...]

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Why Go4Expert Lost 30,000 Readers

by Shabbir on April 28, 2010

in Email Marketing, Tools

No matter what selecting the right tool is the most important aspect for any business. When I started Go4Expert.com Newsletter few years back I was not aware of AWeber at that time and so started using Feedburner for my newsletter. I do not prefer Feedburner (see why here) so I switched to AWeber for [...]

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How to Increase User Registrations / Subsriptions

by Shabbir on April 5, 2010

in Email Marketing, Tools

An image is worth a thousand words and so instead of me doing all the talking let image do the talking.
So what did I do differently from March 27th onwards for such a wonderful growth of user subscriptions to my AWeber list?
Go4Expert.com is very high traffic forum and so I always had decent user sign-ups [...]

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Why Do You Ask Users to Register on Your Websites?

by Shabbir on March 31, 2010

in CMS, Email Marketing

I see on many websites and especially on forums that people need to register and confirm email addresses before they can actually make any activity on the website but I have one of the most important question in my mind which is
Do these websites actually register users?
I don’t think so. The reason I say No [...]

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How to Write Effective Welcome Email

by Shabbir on March 29, 2010

in Email Marketing

Many large and well established forums when I register and confirm I get a default welcome message and welcome PM
Welcome Email is something like
Dear $username,
Thanks for registering at XYZ Forum! We are glad you have chosen to be a part of our community and we hope you enjoy your stay.
All the best,
XYZ Forum
And welcome PM [...]

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How to Address Double Email Confirmation of AWeber & vBulletin

by Shabbir on March 22, 2010

in CMS, Email Marketing

If you Integrate AWeber with vBulletin registration system you may have an issue of double email confirmation. AWeber has always been a confirmed opt-in and if you have your vBulletin settings where users need to confirm email address then when any user registers on your forum he may get double email confirmation, one from [...]

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Integrate AWeber with Joomla

by Shabbir on March 8, 2010

in CMS, Email Marketing, Tools

After integrating AWeber with vBulletin and phpBB, now let’s do it for Joomla. Note that this is a real killer for Joomla module for AWeber by Intellispire which costs $$. Joomla by default notifies admin when any new user registers on your Joomla enabled site and so all you need to do is create an [...]

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