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Calling All Designers: Email Template Contest

Posted by Amanda Gagnon on 03/19/2012

“We’ve heard your feedback and want to clarify any concerns about the submission guidelines (updated here). We’ve updated them to reflect that there’s no coding required and image files are acceptable submissions. With that change in mind, we’re extending the deadline to Monday, April 30 to allow more designers time to compete.” Graphic designers, a [...]


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Make AWesome Contact Forms with Gravity Forms and AWeber

Posted by Nick Moore on 03/16/2012

As you probably know, AWeber offers an excellent web form generator, great for giving potential subscribers a place to sign up to your mailing list. We even have a WordPress plugin to help you get those forms on your WordPress site. Remember though, our forms are used to help people subscribe to a mailing list [...]


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Social Media Marketing: Explore a Niche Network

Posted by Rebekah Henson on 03/14/2012

If you’re already growing your email marketing list and getting exposure on Facebook and Twitter, try thinking smaller. There are tons of new networks with targeted audiences gaining popularity and generating buzz. Some bigger brands are already finding success with niche social media sites. Niche networks make it easier to engage directly with your target [...]


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Big Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Posted by Rebekah Henson on 03/13/2012

Small business often means a small budget, which might make you feel limited when marketing your services. How do you get the word out without breaking the bank? The key to marketing your business on a budget is in your customers, the content you produce, and the channels you use to distribute your content. At [...]


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Connect AWeber to Zendesk, Gmail, and More

Posted by Nick Moore on 03/12/2012

Email marketing is all about building relationships with your subscribers. Depending on your business model, your mailing lists might be the only point of contact you have with them, informing them of events, products, or other pieces of information that are valuable to them. However, you might communicate with your subscribers through other channels as [...]


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How to Survive the New World of Social Sales – 16 Minutes With Brian Solis

Posted by Hunter Boyle on 03/09/2012

“Email, to me, is still the largest social network in the world,” says Brian Solis. “The reality though, is that we’re using it less and less.” And for good reason. Imagine if people were excited to get email, like we were 10-15 years ago. What if it was like getting a fun surprise from Amazon [...]


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Businesses Rockin’ the New Broadcast Editor

Posted by Crystal Gouldey on 03/08/2012

Have you had a chance to check out the new broadcast editor? It’s pretty sweet (if we do say so ourselves), and we’re especially happy with the new drag-and-drop email design that’s making creating beautiful emails easy as pie. Drag-and-drop design lets you pick what you want to work with and put it where you [...]


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Drag-and-Drop Email Design: It’s Here!

Posted by Amanda Gagnon on 03/06/2012

Good news, AWeber community. You’ve got a fancy new broadcast editor waiting for you. (Customers, it’s in your account now; go check it out!) This editor’s literally designed for all skill levels: you now have three different editors you can work in. Choose from: Block Editor Got a vision but no HTML skills? You want [...]


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System Downtime on Sunday, March 4

Posted by Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) on 03/05/2012

What Happened? This past Sunday morning, AWeber’s external data center experienced a hardware failure that cut off all power to the entire data center, affecting our servers, the data center’s core networking equipment & every other company housed in their facility. Because of this, access to our servers was sporadic, and we experienced downtime across [...]


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You Say You Want a New Broadcast Editor?

Posted by Amanda Gagnon on 03/02/2012

It’s something you, the AWeber community, have been asking for. It’s something that will make your email marketing really easy. And it’s almost here. We’ve been working on this secret project for a while, and recently unveiled it in a few AWeber accounts to test it out. We took feedback, we made improvements and in [...]


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