Why I Switched to GetResponse from Aweber

With RSS feeds, Twitter, and all sorts of other instant communication, email still tops the list of the best broad-contact method marketers use to get response from their base of customers or fans.  My journey through different autoresponders has often landed back to GetResponse vs. Aweber.

The money is in your list!  So, it’s fair to say that choosing an autoresponder to use for your home business, website, etc. is probably one of the most important choices you can make.  I’ll give you one man’s opinion on the 2 most popular services, as well as a couple others I’ve used along the way.

Aweber vs. GetResponse

We’ll start and end with the big boys.  Now, there are other autoresponders out there, and I’ll mention a few at the end, but most of the people looking to start with an autoresponder, or find the right email management system to move into, are going to end up trying to choose between these two companies: Aweber and GetResponse.

Several years ago, when I started a (fairly strong) email newsletter geared towards hip-hop music, I signed up with Aweber.  They seemed to be the leader at that time, the price was decent (I think it was still $20/mo back then too), and it did what I needed it to do - easily.  I had about 5,000 subscribers on that list and it didn’t cost me anything to send out as many emails as I felt Read more

Send a File That’s Too Big for Email

I’ve seen lots of cool sites that allow you to send someone a file that may be too big for email.  What if you have 20 pictures from your camera you want to send to your brother?  You have a couple choices… either zip them up and hope your email client doesn’t reject them… you could go through one-by-one and re-size them down to emailable sizes… OR… you could use the site I just found: EatLime.

Just click “Add File” to keep adding files… up to 1GB!  Then send your buddy the link provided…. they’ll be lead to a Read more