How to send text and HTML messages with aWeber

July 28, 2009 by Johnny
Filed under: Email marketing

This post continues the last few posts, telling you all about how to use aWeber to manage your mailing list. So if you haven’t yet signed up for aWeber, you should do that now.

Now, the last few posts with videos have shown you how to set up and begin using aWeber… but your list is pretty damn useless if you don’t send something, now isn’t it?

So let’s send something already.

There are two basic kinds of things you’ll send:

1. e-zines of various kinds – basically, free zines of value in and of themselves, and
2. reminders about things – email versions of tapping them on the shoulder and saying, “Hey, check this out.”

And in each of the above, you can send plain text (#2 is usually just plain old text) or full HTML documents so that it looks almost like a website, with pictures and everything.

Here’s how to do it:

Get the Flash Player to see the wordTube Media Player.

The last bit to cover in this series is how to use autoresponders, so keep an eye out for that. (Of course, if you want to make sure you don’t miss it, you should sign up for the RSS feed for this blog.)

Dig this? Remember, it’s just a small sample of what’s in Zero to Business, so be sure to check that out!