Glad to hear that Ken. I love Aweber too. Their blog is great as well.

I have recently begun to use Aweber. I have to say, their service is excellent. I selected them based on recommendation and it appears to me that the majority of top marketers use them.

Cheers
Ken

Well, Google mail does not really have the features that you typically need for email marketing.

For email marketing, you need to be able to track and verify that people have opted in (to comply with CANN-SPAM laws).

Also, usually, with an autoresponder, you want to automatically send messages at timed intervals after a person opts-in to a list.

And you want to be able to manage lists and track clicks and a lot of other things.

So, i think a better free option would be one of the free self-hosted autoresponders. However, I think that option will cost you money in the long run.

I’m not really an expert on FeedBlitz — however…

I think these are 2 different things. Feedburner is a feed hosting and tracking service that many many bloggers use. Feedblitz seems to be an aggregator. They say that Feedblitz is compatible with feedburner feeds.

It looks like you can use them in together as they serve different purposes.

I could be wrong…but that is what I think.

Even if the listowner use double opt-ins some listmembers will set your emails to spam … that is a huge risk …

Probably You should create a script that ads around 1000 listmembers to reduce that risk

Here is what Aweber has to say about that:

The deliverability of email messages is largely dependent on the reputation of the sender, among other factors. If your complaint rate is elevated for a period of time, it may affect not only the deliverability of your own messages, but also those of the service you use to send them.

If your complaint rate exceeds .1% for a period of time, you may be contacted by our Customer Solutions team to discuss the rate, reasons why it may be elevated, and what needs to be done to get it back to the appropriate levels.

Regards,
Mark

“How many reciepients can put my mail into their spam-folder without my account being disabled.”

IF you start a new list and You only have fewer than 100 members on the list and only ONE or TWO put one message into their spam-folder (mark it as spam) Your account can and will be disabled.

GetResponse have a value that IF your broadcast or follow-up goes over 1% spam-complaints, they will shut down your account. Doesn’t matter IF it is double opt-ins or not …

/Patrik Berggren