Using Aweber to Broadcast Your Blog Posts
Posted on 01. Apr, 2008 by Brian Wong in Blogging
I publish my blog’s RSS feed through Feedburner. What this means is that Feedburner will reformat my generic RSS feed out of WordPress and make it more attractive and compatible with most RSS Readers. But instead of using Feedburner’s email subscribe function to allow my blog readers to have my posts delivered via email, I use Aweber’s Blog Broadcast feature instead.
A lot of people have asked how and why I use Aweber to publish my RSS Feed for my blog. First the “how”. It’s actually quite easy to do. I’ve attached a tutorial video on how to set this up below:
Here are the main reasons why I use Aweber instead of Feedburner’s generic email subscribe function:
- With Aweber you can build your email mailing list and your blog readership at the same time.
- You can send an email broadcast to your Aweber list subscribers anytime. You cannot send ad hoc email broadcasts with your Feedburner account.
- You can customize the look and feel of your email blog broadcast with Aweber. If you are subscribed by email, you will notice that I have a custom header as well as other custom text that I included including custom links.
- With Aweber, -you can review your email broadcast BEFORE sending to your subscribers. You can choose the day and time to send the email or to send manually or automatically. With Feedburner, you can only set the time to send the email broadcast and sometimes the email is sent if you accidentally publish a post.
- The main reason for my switch to Awebe Blog Broadcast feature is that Aweber now automatically updates Feedburner’s reader count. So if you display the number of readers of your RSS feed, your Aweber subscribers are included in the count.
If you would like to test out Aweber’s Blog Broadcast feature – click here to sign up for a free trial account. Aweber is the most important marketing tool that I use and I thoroughly recommend it.












13 Comments
Sean Grimes
29. Sep, 2008
Yes, this a great option that I have just discovered. Feedburner works really well with Aweber and I prefer to use Aweber to manage my list as well. For those who don’t know, once to set up Aweber with feedburner and after you place the feedburner feedcount code on your site, it may take a couple of days for this to update. It took my site 2 days to start displaying results. Anyway, thanks for the good info.
Sean Grimes
30. Sep, 2008
Brian, I’d like to know how managed to get the Aweber stat counter on your site. I’m using feedburners on mine. The code for your counter looked like your counter is hosted by Aweber.
Let know if you have time.
Brian Wong
01. Oct, 2008
Hi Sean,
Its very easy to add a subscriber counter from Aweber. Log in to your Aweber admin center and to the list you want to manage. Click on List Settings –> Web Forms –> Create New. On that page, you have the option to “Include Subscriber Chicklet”. Just check that box and the counter will be shown next to your form.
Sean Grimes
01. Oct, 2008
Thanks Brian. I didn’t know it was THAT easy! I think I’ll just stick with the Feeburner counter I’m using. I didn’t know that the chicklet you’re using was specific to the a certain list.
Thanks.
Brian Wong
01. Oct, 2008
Oh in addition to what was mentioned in the above post, the Aweber chicklet also counts your Feedburner subscribers. Meaning they count the number of email subscribers AND the number of RSS subscribers on Feedburner. That’s very powerful.
Michael
06. Oct, 2008
Hi Brian,
What are the major out lined areas of focus would you recommend for an affiliate marketer. In monthly, weekly and daily focus and work.
Brian Wong
08. Oct, 2008
Michael, I would say – pick a niche, then select 5 products to promote within that niche. Set up a landing page (could be a blog or a presell page). Drive massive traffic to that page (free and paid). Capture opt-ins from your landing page. Test and measure all your results to continuously optimize and improve your system.
The hard part is the setup. But the beauty of Internet affiliate marketing is that once you set up your system, your daily work will be monitoring and tweaking which does not take a lot of effort.
Michael
08. Oct, 2008
Thank you very much Brian.
Sean Grimes
08. Oct, 2008
Great info! I just managed to get my own system together. I have about 6 different programs I’m promoting within my system.
I’m now focusing on getting traffic to my landing page just as Brian mentioned. I then make changes to my system when I feel they are needed. For instance, I change my audios from time to time and I have a members area where I just made a bunch of training videos available to my members.
I think I’m going to look more into Brians training videos that he provides. Most serious people I come in contact with all want access to training material.
Sean Grimes
08. Oct, 2008
Hey Brian. I must say that your videos seem great so far! I took advantage of your one time special. I’m sure this will be a real asset to me and my subscribers.
Thanks a bunch.
Michael
08. Oct, 2008
Thank you Sean, I have been took into affiliate marketing for at least 2 years now, but seems to be scatted.
Brian Wong
11. Oct, 2008
Hi Sean,
I designed those videos with a “win-win” model in my mind.
The videos are a powerful way for anyone to learn the skills required to market online.
Also the Resale Rights allows you to sell them to your list and keep 100% of the profits. :)
And for those without a list or a site, they can just use the affiliate program and earn a nice commission. Hope you enjoy and profit from them. :)
Lisa Santos
04. Feb, 2009
awesome post! I am so excited to implement this on my site. This will save me so much time in communicating with my subscribers. I love being efficient in my marketing!
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