Today is the one year birthday of the Tactics Time chess tactics email newsletter! See founder Tim Brennan’s tale of how his email list grew from three subscribers to 700. It was one year ago today that I sent out my very first e-mail newsletter. I use AWeber to send my e-mails, and I highly [...]

We’ve talked about him before and recognized he has good ideas, and now he has something new to share. Tim Carter, the owner of AsktheBuilder, recently tried a different method to grow his list and is willing to share what he found. Carter teaches his audience how to complete construction projects using videos. These videos [...]

Since it’s easier to get a repeat customer than obtain a new customer, it only makes sense to follow up with your customers after they purchase from you. For the thousands of businesses using Shopify, building stronger relationships with your customers is now easier than ever. Our users who sell products through PayPal liked the [...]

Follow ups are a marketing tool not to be taken lightly. Originally built to take pressure off salesmen following up on their leads, their power lies in slowly selling your brand over time. To sell effectively, they’ve got to look good, which is easy now that the block editor, an easy email creation tool, is [...]

Often you’ll ask subscribers to whitelist your email address so your valuable messages do not end up filtered. This takes a bit of work and know-how though, so you will only get a small number of subscribers who will do this for you. Here’s a method that helps you effortlessly get whitelisted while increasing your [...]

If you want to drum up interest in your new product or site, but don’t have the site viewer-ready yet, you need Launch Effect. It’s a WordPress theme that allows website visitors to sign up to receive updates, and also provides a unique URL for the subscriber to use to share with friends. Referrals are [...]

If you want to grow your email lists, opt-in forms that convert visitors to subscribers are a must. Order forms, event registrations, surveys and lead-gen subscriptions — these are all gateways to your business. So we’re very pleased to announce our new integration with Formstack, one of the leaders in the form field (pun intended), [...]

If you’ve been doing email marketing for over a week, you’ve probably heard all about split testing: why you should, easy split tests you can implement today, split testing your web forms and calls to action, and so on. If people liked email as much as they like cats, “test it!” would be our “I [...]

Your brand’s Facebook page is changing tomorrow. On March 30th, Facebook will switch all brand pages to its Timeline layout. This might create some unique challenges for your current list building strategy. Don’t worry – you can still use our Facebook web form app like you always have. But Timeline does not allow brand pages [...]

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 [...]