Great looking new design! I really like the new reports page with graphs. You just making a great service even better.

Take Care,

Bret Forster.

Cool - I always had a nagging issue with the lead display UI where I kept hitting the "delete view" button. You read my mind

Now the coloured buttons will help.

Aweber just gets better all the time!

Cheers,
Peter

Love to see the constant upgrades, care, and attention you put into your service. Aweber has been an awesome tool for us that has only gotten better with the frequent updates. This one looks like a biggie.

Thanks!

The new features look really great can’t wait to get a sneek peek!

Sally

Just another reason why I love aweber so much! You’re always looking for ways to improve something that already beats any service out there.

Thank you.

Anthony

Here are my list of top enhancement requests (and the reasons I’ve been desperately looking at competitors!):

1- We need easier copying capabilities; I often need the exact same autoresponder to use in a different list, or simply repeat in the cycle.

2- WAY too much fussing over the double opt in. I understand why, but there are reasons I want to skip the opt in (for my prospects who have converted to customers, for example. Make my customer opt in again is insulting).

3- Better management of separate lists. Once an email has been opted in, I’d like to add it to different lists for further specializing. The current way of adding to a new list (and it’s infernal optin process) is way too cumbersome.

4- I’d like an email address I could send a message to, and have aweber automatically convert that to a broadcast. The email would be associated to a specific list, so aweber would know which list to broadcast to.

My blogging software will automatically generate an email whenever I make an entry. This feature would allow my blog entry to be automatically sent to my house list.

See you guys on Thursday.

rob

I am so glad to be dealing with a modrn progressive company such as aweber. We get a lot of our business through your autoresponders and find it easy to use now. Guess it’ll just get easier!

These enchancements look great. Thanks for the sneak preview.

Two things that still concern me…

1. Make your forms web standards compatible. If not completely (in other words, no table layout), then at the very least close all your tags. Input tags need to be closed.

2. I make a suggestion months ago that Aweber look at its user base and find a mean user’s tech skills. My guess is it wouldn’t be very high. That said, I made the recommendation that you hire a usability expert to help with labeling some of the admin features. Doing so would change how easy Aweber is to learn for most of your users. Maybe Aweber has done this, maybe not. But the competition is doing it.

I’m HOPING that you have made it possible for us to specify our default list OR keep the last-used list as the one that appears when we log in!!!

Wow! I have to say, aweber must have some of the most switched-on, professional and visionary users… reading the quality of suggestions above by John, Lee Lister and Rob Rutkowski. I hope you are taking advantage of this invaluable feedback from the people who are on the sharp end of using your system!

For my own part, I feel like I’m reaching the boundaries (now, after a month, and configuring 4 other aweber accounts for associates I’ve recommended)… I hope that you will heed Steve Tennant’s suggestion above!

The biggest wish I have, is for you to make it possible to save an entire aweber account as a ‘template’ so that it can be used as the basis for setting up a new account for associates… you’d find me bringing an accelerating number of new aweber customers your way when you implement that feature!

Kind Regards

Brian

Great stuff Tom. As someone else has said, you’re making a great service even better. Keep up the good work.

-Nick

Tom,

I am glad to see that you are updating the Web Form Wizard. This is one area that I feel needs some work.

The main problem I have is being able to customize the layout of the input fields and labels, color, width, text alignment, positioning etc…

I love the statistics you provide when I use the Java Script form but the default form does not fit all of my Opt-In pages. I am forced to

Allowing access to more properties of the form would make Aweber IMHO
almost perfect.

It would be nice if you could create a "registration plug-in" so that when users create an account at my site, they can opt-in for the mailing list as part of the registration process and make it an all-in-one.

Making them go through two separate sign-up processes with two separate confirmation e-mails makes for more confusion and less conversion.

There are ways, albeit a bit more complicated, that this could be done where the processes are combined.

Be glad to help beta-test it and maybe even contribute some code. It would be a HUGE value add.

- Greg

Does this include the elimination of double open reporting. 2 emails sent, opened twice each is now reported as a 200% open rate. This masks how many people are opening vs. reopening. Hell one guy can open 300 times and 299 people not once and you’d never know.

Tom, I’m so impressed with every aspect of Aweber. Now that I’m learning how powerful this system is, my subscriber base has grown.

Thank you for constantly looking for ways to improve an already fantastic program.

I appreciate you!

Susan Schilling

The new features look very exciting and there are excellent suggestions made here by many of the members.

Here’s my personal wish list:

1) I would like to see the ability to create a new list by specifying it as a duplicate of an existing list (i.e. select a list and make an exact copy, then simply rename and edit the contents)

2) Ability to associate our own domain name to the autoresponders instead of using listname@aweber.com

3) Ability to merge database records in different lists

4) Ability to reassign names on a list to another list. I understand there is a potential issue with doing this, but the system could automatically generate and send an email to recipents of that list who are being reassigned saying something like: "You are currently subscribed to ABC Marketing Group’s ‘General Topic’ Newsletter. A new ‘Specific Topic’ Newsletter has been created that we believe may be more pertinent to your interests. Would you like to: a) Transfer over to ‘Specific Topic’ Newsletter? b) Stay on ‘General Topic’ Newsletter c) Subscribe to both lists?"

Anyway, keep up the great work and thanks for considering our suggestions.

Nice to see you guys listen to feedback and keep improving!

One small feature I’d like to see is being able to delete unconfirmed lead that I know is bad.

Tom,

When will be the new updates be ready?

This new update will be a plus-point when promoting Aweber, especially when the new interface looks more user-friendly…

Yup, keep up the good work. We appreciate it.

Lyna.

Good to see that you guys keep ideas fresh, nice service and even better customer service as well :).

Hi Aweber,

Great stuff. You’re at the forefront of e-commerce because you focus on customer, customer, customer… Thanks.

One thing that would be good to see is ‘auto’ email sentence lengths… so that one doesn’t have to scroll up to click format email sentence constantly.

Sure you’re on to this one though.

Keep up the good work and if you need a ’success’ story make sure you come to see me.

Wow Aweber
Way to go!
That is the way to give your customers what they need

I was thinking about suggesting to you guys to make some upgrades,
But you have just taken my thoughts our of my mind.

Congratulations

I am looking forward for the new Imporvements

Hey Tom and Team, Thanks for sharing and well done. Keep up the excellent work! I especially like and appreciate the way you guys improve upon already a brilliant service, the new reports page with graphs helps make it even better for results.

It would be nice if you’d ask for feedback before redesigning the website. That way you’d be able to fulfill your customers needs.

Whatever ideas are posted now are irrellevent.

Tom, your company is TRULY in a class of it’s own!

I’m proud to be a customer and affiliate.

Keep doing what you’re doing.

Joe Lavery

Tom,
Aweber is one of those products that I was sure I needed before I bought it. Thank you for making it even better!

Ted

Hi Tom,

I posted a comment - February 27th, 2007 at 3:51 pm - saying that I would like it if Aweber moved away from having having such a strong weighting toward customers seeing the "listname", which is the unique aweber email address.

It’s getting harder and harder to be able to choose an Aweber email that sounds even similar to the name of your newsletter.
"Please confirm your subscribtion to 123456@aweber.com" means nothing to people.

Here’s a quote from my email:
"I know there are a bunch of different subjects to choose from, but it just seems like there’s still an overweight leaning towards the aweber email being shown to subscribers, when really it means nothing to them."

In your reply (February 27th, 2007 at 3:58 pm) you said this:
"You can already fully customize both the confirmed opt-in subject line and the thank you for subscribing page."

If feel your reply misses the point of my comment. Yes I know you can customise the opt-in subject line - but this takes a day of so to be approved.

If we look at the "Pre-approved Subjects" for the opt-in email out of the first 16 subjects, 14 contain {!listname}. That’s what I mean by there is an overweighting towards the listname, when really it means nothing to the customer.

e.g. for my listname, they didn’t just request information from dollarsnsense@aweber.com - they requested information from wisemoney.

One solution that I’d suggest is to have a "List Name" that is customizable and separate from the aweber email address - and this customizable list name is what would get inserted into the subjects. We’d be able to give the list the same name as our ezine. (And it wouldn’t have to be unique for all Aweber).

So please hear what I’m meaning: it’s not just about what can be approved by your team. It’s also about how quickly and instantly I can control the details of a new list I’m setting up. And how much I can just run with the defaults, because they make sense, instead of always having to change them.

Thanks

Hey,

I’m using your service for about a year now and i must say it really increased my contact with our (futured) clients !

Keep up the good work !

I am so glad I cam across this posting. I can certainly make use of these features and can’t wait to try it out. Excellent.