http://www.aweber.com/gettingstartedchecklist.pdf

For someone who is uninterested or unable to join our Education Team for a getting started live training session, I would next suggest our "How to Get Started" guide:

http://www.aweber.com/autoresponder-how-to-get-started-guide.pdf

There is some detail in there, but most of it covers best practices, which are important for getting the best results out of your marketing.

But the step-by-step instructions are concise, so that if you wish to skim through it as you set up, then go back later to optimize your campaigns, you certainly can.

I hope this helps, and please just let our Customer Solutions team know if you need any help. That’s what they’re here for!

We still are not using your service because we don’t have time to figure out how to set it up.

Oh well…

P.S. No time to watch videos. Just need a short cheat sheet.

If you publish a blog, RSS should automatically be built in, and you will just need to extract the RSS feed URL address from any page on it.

Some content management systems (CMS’s), such as Joomla, will also provide an RSS feature that will update when you add new pages and other content.

If you’re using any other method to publish content to your website, to generate an RSS feed you may need to:

* Integrate a blog into your website that does provide an RSS feed
* Work with a developer to integrate something else that automatically generates a feed when you publish any new content to your site

Of the two, I would suggest that adding a blog would certainly be the easiest way to provide an RSS feed to site visitors.

But let’s remember that potentially the solid majority of our readers don’t know what RSS is, let alone how to use it.

Using both RSS and email to syndicate information is the best way to push information to visitors rather than hoping they take the initiative to return to your site to check for new content occasionally.

I subscribe to RSS feed of this blog but only read every now and then. But here it is, another great post.

Until today, whenever I used broadcast feature within my own auto responder, I never opted for publishing using RSS feed, but now I understand the importance of allowing recipients to have more than one channel to consume the message I send.

I have been a customer at AWeber for over 2 years, and I have to say that this post on best practice only serves to reinforce my position that joining your system is the best move we have ever made. We use to run our own autoresponder on our server, and the truth is I was a little dubious when my business partner and brother Rick Davies suggested we try your service largely because of the great reviews he had read on the ABlake forum.

I could not be happier. I find that what I have received for free here at AWeber closely models what I have paid the big bucks for at email seminars.

Keep up the great work, and thanks for covering some of the basics here again, as I could use a reminder from time to time.

I enjoy reading it a lot.

I can certainly relate to many of the issues you mentioned…

One of the things I have found to be working is the following:

1) people hate reading long emails
2) type the 1st sentence of your article/newsletter in the email body
3) ask them to visit the page where the rest is featured.
4) give away a freebie to thank the reader for their time (we all have little nowadays)

It seems to be working really well…

Happy Holidays!!!