AWeber Email Marketing Tips

The problem I have found is that if the customer does not click the sign up link in the Aweber email then I don’t get to find out about the payment.

This is because the Paypal payment received email has gone to my Aweber account, which is great if the customer clicks the link in the Aweber email, but if they don’t then the only way to find out about the payment received is to check my Paypal account.

Or have I missed something..

Wow…it is a answer for my question

thanks a lot

Excellent Article and exactly what I spent yesterday trying to figure out!

May I suggest that you send this out as part of the welcome package with new accounts.

Thanks

Justin,

I love the integration between AWeber and shopping carts, etc., but my challenge is the same as Andy Philpot’s above. The purchaser isn’t automatically signed up to the autoresponder but, rather, they receive the verification email setup in the "List Settings -> Verified Opt-In" area.

This means the client has an extra step to go through and, if the client doesn’t opt-in:

a) they don’t receive the follow-up messages
b) I don’t receive the PayPal payment email

Any plans for AWeber to recognize purchasers as ‘automatically opted-in’ (I can’t think of a higher opt-in confirmation than purchasing an item from my site), or is this unique to PayPal and another shopping cart would integrate differently with AWeber?

I think AWeber is the best AR out there, and I’d love to see this extra functionality!

Brett.

The subscriber will be subscribed via the email method.

So, do this mean, the subscriber have to confirm their subscription?

- Pawan

Thanks for the additional info Justin!

Ok, Gang! I am brand new here and so far loving this AR…it is the first one I have used.

I am looking to provide PREMIUM weekly content to a list of subscribers…I know Aweber will be able to deliver the content…my question is, won’t the "SUBSCRIBE" buttons from PayPal work just the same as the "BUY NOW" buttons?

Thanks from a TRUE beginner.

I had a small question. Once you have followed the steps to integrate paypal & aweber, when someone makes a purchase are they sent;

a) the confirmation email or
b) message number one

I just wanted to make sure. Thanks everyone.

So is it possible to set up a recurring paypal payment button for the autoresponder?

>Would this work with PayPal recurring subscriptions as well or just >Buy It Now?
>
>December 12th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
>Justin,
>
>This is for use with one-time purchases with PayPal’s "Buy Now" >buttons, rather than recurring subscriptions.
>
>Once someone is subscribed to your list, they would remain subscribed >until either they clicked the unsubscribe link or you manually >unsubscribed them, rather than their subscription being based on >further emails from PayPal being sent to the autoresponder.

This is a great way to do it, except that paypal limits the number of emails I can have to 8.

If I understand this thread correctly then I’d need a different paypal address for every product (so it activates the right autoresponder), which means if I sell more than 8 products I’m outta luck.

Am I getting that right? If so — Tom, got any pull at Paypal?

Lou

I have the same issue as Lou and Mary – more than 8 products. I am assuming, given their question has not been answered that this is a limit that can’t be changed at the Paypal end.

I am wondering if Aweber could add some new functionality to parse out the product ID from the paypal email and then add the person to the appropriate list based on the product ID?

Also, a question to everyone else with more than 8 products, how have you handled this? Any suggestions or ideas for us just starting out ?

You may have to create a generic follow-up for all customers. This would save you tons of time. One autoresponder, one set of follow-ups. It would be possible to offer a link to an FAQs page on your website. I just think it is going over board to create a different autoresponder for multiple items. Autoresponders are to supposed to save time, not create more work and aggravation. I use a generic follow up myself and I make plenty of sales using the generic follow-up. Just trying to help.

I did all of the above, created a button, then put that button into
List A’s auto-responder message.
Once the person who receives LIST A clicks the paypal button, I then want them to be moved to List B to start receiving those e-mails (for which they’ve now paid) via autoresponder.

HOWEVER,

when I just tested the LIST A message, and clicked the paypal button, it wasn’t active. How do I create a ‘clickable’ paypal button that’s in the autoresponder msg?

>That is not possible at this time, no. You would need to manually import subscribers who were signing up for a recurring subscription via PayPal.<

is this still the case? or has there been an advance with this?
i have subsription sales to multiple products, will I need to manually put them into each list after they pay, and how will i know when they have stopped paying? to unsubsribe them?

Hi Justin,

I’ve read this comment thread, but I’m hoping yet another request might be the straw that breaks the camel’s back here.

First, I love Aweber — it has been a perfect product for me so far. You people do great work and the service is a pleasure to use.

I use a PayPal subscription button as a way of offering a 30-day product trial. Customers are billed 99 cents for the first 30 days, then full price if they like the product.

Before I introduced trial pricing, I was using a Buy It now. This worked great — customers instantly receive a confirmation message, then get added to my list of customers so I can send customers-only mailings to them through Aweber. So far so good.

But now I’m looking at manually importing these leads one at a time. They lose the instant response feature and I have to perform this task manually — and keeping the product held back until they verify is the only effective way to opt them all into the customer list. The current situation is a hack solution that seems unnecessary.

Please consider adding PayPal subscription functionality, at least to the sign-up process. I’m sure the people publishing weekly newsletters etc. won’t mind having to process unsubscribes manually — at least this solution would get them halfway automated. (And me fully automated.)

Thanks for all you do, and keep up the great service.

I get started my online business on April 2006. And all the successful marketers that I met out there have given me the
same advice about Aweber’s follow up hight quality service.

And once I have my first affiliate website setup since yesterday
from Cody Moya, I didn’t hesitate anymore to open my Aweber’s account
even if I do not have much money now to do that. Aweber is the quality
of follow up I want and the best emails deliverability.

Thanks to Aweber’s Staff,

I’m having the same maximum 8 email problem also.

Here’s a thought…

Is there a way to append a custom field when a person orders.

For instance, I would like to put all my entry level customers into the same list and just have a custom field for "product ID", When the person purchases, the field would be appended with a product code (i.e. DF for Dog Food). Then if the customer purchases a different product the field would be appended with the new code while still leaving in the old code. For instance if they bought a Dog Collar (DC) then the field would not show "DF DC".

So can a custom field be appended to?

We’d like to implement the Paypal-Aweber autoresponder, but there’s one thing that’s still unclear to me after reading the above posts.

How can we receive the actual Paypal orders if the customer does not verify or does not verify in a timely manner? We would really like to implement this feature, but we don’t want to alienate customers who don’t receive their orders because we don’t receive the order confirmation from Paypal.

Thanks!

@Bridgette,

Referring back to Justin’s recent comment above, this integration works best for product purchases, rather than subscriptions.

The email would not show up in the account, since emailing the list name only adds or removes subscriber – it isn’t used as a reliable means of communication with subscribers or services.

Greetings,

I have canceled Paypal subscriptions to find that it also automatically deleted me from the aweber email list that was delivering the product.

How can I set up my Paypal/aweber to do the same? It would be a lot easier than having to manually unsubscribe members from my Aweber list after they cancel the Paypal subscription.

Thanks,

J

When I look at the pic, I just realize how much aweber has changed. How time has passed by??? Clickbank, Aweber and all these super businesses have changed and seen a lot during the years.

Also another question – if the persons Paypal name is not their actual name (like a company name, husbands account etc) then the name that they get signed up on Aweber with is totally wrong. Which means you can’t use their ‘firstname fix’ in an email.

Is there a way to have a custom field in Paypal passed through into Aweber for the signup?

Does anyone know if AWeber can be used to automatically distribute unique activation codes to customers after they have made a purchase? Each activation code would be unique to each purchase. Thanks

I really want to switch to aweber from another popular auto responder service. The opt-in forms are worth the price all together.