Critical Steps To Online Success--Generate Your List

Settings at AWeber

I'm talking about AWeber here because that's my main Autoresponder.

I think I must be going mental to take on this task of guiding you through this without the help of diagrams, but let's see how we go. When I first got started with AWeber I remember it was a pretty confusing experience. Actually I find all Autoresponders are lacking in really clear documentation that a stumbling idiot like myself can understand.

So open the AWeber website at http://www.aweber.com/and if you haven't already done so, go to the web form at the bottom of the page and setup up your free 30 day test drive. This truly is free and they are really good about canceling if that's what you choose to do. But don't do this yet unless you are now ready to get started and take your squeeze page live. You don't want to waste your 30 day free trial.

Once you've set up your account you log-in to the member area.

You will be on the "home" page. Across the top you will see a blue navigation bar with a yellow navigation bar directly below it. Left click on the "list settings" tab in the blue area and then left click on the "Settings" tab at the far left hand side of the yellow area.

The first thing to do here is to give your list a name. I tend to operate with just one list and use the "Form Name" designator to separate out where the leads came from…more on this later. The name can be anything you like but should be somewhat meaningful to you. For now you could call it "mymainlist". You can always change it later.

You then enter a short list description such as "My Web Business Newsletter". Make the name professional because it will be viewable on your "unsubscribe page". Now check "Allow Multiple Unsubscribe", enter your company name and your main website URL and you're done with this phase of the setup.

We'll revisit this topic and deal with "Verified Opt-in" and "Custom Fields in another article.

Keep on Winning

Regards

Jim

SUMMARY

When I first got started with AWeber I remember it was a pretty confusing experience. Actually I find all Autoresponders are lacking in really clear documentation that a stumbling idiot like myself can understand. I know this is boring stuff but it has to be done. Your list is the most important part of your online business. So let's get to it...

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