New Scheduling Options For Your Blog’s Newsletter
New Features - Justin Premick - January 16th, 2008 - Permalink
A lot of you have asked about this one, so I’m really excited to show it off!
Many bloggers send email newsletters to their subscribers to keep them up-to-date on the latest posts.
While bloggers have embraced our Blog Broadcast tool, they’ve pointed out a couple of things they’d like to see us add to make it even more powerful.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we’ve answered by far the most popular feature request for this tool: advanced scheduling features.
Let me show you how it works with a short video.
Scheduling Your Blog’s Email Newsletter: What You Can Do
Used to be, you chose how many posts you wanted to appear in each email, and whenever there were that many new posts, we sent your newsletter.
Some of you said you’d rather send once per day, or per week, regardless of however many new posts you’d made. Others said you wanted to send at a certain time of day, regardless of what time you were posting new content.
Makes sense to us.
You can now:
With these new scheduling options, you can tailor your blog’s email newsletter to reach your subscribers as frequently as you want.
See The New Scheduling Options In Action
In this short video, I show you how to easily customize when you send your blog’s newsletter:
Pretty cool, no?
This is just one of a number of enhancements we’ll be making to the Blog Broadcast tool. Stay tuned…
Learn More in Our Knowledge Base
January 17th, 2008 at 10:48 am
The scheduling features are nice. Does your blog feed need to be set up and configured for each individual list or can it be set up in one spot and then be utilized on all or even better, select lists?
January 17th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Hi Ryan,
By default, your blog broadcasts will only be sent to subscribers in one list (the list where you set it up).
However, you can use our "include/exclude lists" feature to select additional lists that you want individual broadcasts to go to (to do this, you’ll need to choose to not send your blog broadcasts automatically - that way you can check off the lists you want an individual message to go to prior to sending it).
January 17th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Ah ok thank you. That’s a good tip.
January 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The blog broadcast is just about one of the most powerful features at Aweber. We use it to broadcast, and we send it to the RSS feed in our affiliate toolbar.
Our affiliates can then see the content by visiting the ProfitMart blog, or by seeing it in their in basket from Aweber ( we send it every 3 new articles, so about once each day or so), and they also see it presented as an updating feed in the RSS toolbar feature.
This helps to ensure that all affiliate get the info they need, and with Aweber it is presented professionally.
I look forward to trying the new brodcast date/time controls, and am off to try that now.
Keep up the great work guys!
January 18th, 2008 at 12:10 am
I’m curious, can this blog podcast be incorporated into a forum like vbulletin?
Say for a specific forum, that has an RSS feed attached to it? It would be could if you could set it up similar to the blog feed? Essentially using the specific forum for announcements?
January 18th, 2008 at 3:06 am
The video failed to load. I reloaded the site and refreshed the page. I am using Mozilla — I’ll try IE 7.0 and see what happens.
January 18th, 2008 at 6:07 am
[…] I have been quite vocal in my encouraging Aweber to add some more control to the way they handle RSS to Email, and I am glad to say they have now added some very flexible date and time based controls. […]
January 19th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[…] I just happened across a blog post over on the AWeber blog announcing some cool new additions to AWeber's Blog Broadcast feature. […]
January 21st, 2008 at 11:25 am
Brian,
I’m not familiar with vbulletin specifically, but if your announcements are published to an RSS feed, you could set up a Blog Broadcast for that feed and offer your forum members the ability to subscribe to those updates through a web form.
Thomas,
I’m viewing the video in Firefox just fine — you may want to make sure you’re running the latest version of Flash Player.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
Thank you for listening!
Next on my wishlist, the ability to send blog broadcasts to particular lead lists (similar to the lead list option in email broadcasts)
January 29th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
This feature would be nice for regular email campaigns too where you can decide on what month, day, time to send out an email. I love this feature though!
January 31st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
As one of the people who asked for this
I really appreciate this feature.
Wonderful. Right on.
February 1st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I’ve been using the blog broadcast feature as a substitue for services like FeedBurner and now have over 11,000 people in that particular list, and this update certainly makes it a whole lot better.
March 4th, 2008 at 11:04 am
[…] See the Announcement — and a Video Demonstration! […]
March 20th, 2008 at 4:12 am
[…] Here you can watch a video to see how to set the schedule up. […]