Monday, August 31, 2015
Walker goes full Forrest Gump, says Canadian border wall is “legitimate issue for us to look at”
Update: Readers who hunger for more mockery of Scott Walker should check out the #CanadaWall tag on twitter. ————————————– Today on Meet the Press, Scott Walker said that a border wall between the United States and Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at”. I expect his campaign will tomorrow release a “clarifying” more »
Sunday, August 30, 2015
Walker goes full Forrest Gump, says Canadian border wall is “legitimate issue for us to look at”
Update: Readers who hunger for more mockery of Scott Walker should check out the #CanadaWall tag on twitter. ————————————– Today on Meet the Press, Scott Walker said that a border wall between the United States and Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at”. I expect his campaign will tomorrow release a “clarifying” more »
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Tips To Turn Your Home Into A Safe Study Shrine
Running an office from your living room or garage/den is an often occurrence in today’s world. More and more people are looking to become their own bosses and working from home is turning into a reality for many. And the...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Chicago Principal Debates School Choice with Rightwing Think Tank
Watch superstar principal Troy LaRaviere debate the future of education in Chicago with a representative of the rightwing Heartland Institute. Like all conservative think tanks, Heartland would like to replace public schools with a free-market of charters and vouchers, allowing (or leaving) every family to be on their own.
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
The Best Automated Email Marketing Services for Bloggers
We don’t mince words. We don’t beat around the bush. If you’re looking for ways to increase the efficiency and productivity in your business,AWeber has the best automated email marketing services for bloggers and business owners.
For us, AWeber is one of the 5 tools we want every blogger to use. Not only do we use them, we love, teach and promote AWeber wherever we go. We even held a Blogging Concentrated event in their PA offices AND they’re sponsoring this post for us.
You don’t have a lot of time, and we don’t want to serve you fluff, so let’s skip the generic stuff and get to the top four features of their program.
- 3 Different Forms of Email Communication
- Making the Lists Talk to Each Other
- Duplicating Campaigns
- Automated 3rd Party Integrations
So let’s get to it.
3 Different Email Tools
For most bloggers the idea that there are different types of email is foreign, and the idea that AWeber has three might be daunting. But let me explain what the three are.
Follow-up Series
The follow-up series is one of the automated email marketing services that has you here in the first place. Ever join an online challenge and get the Day 1 Email in your inbox immediately? Ever download an ebook and get the download link email immediately? Ever sign up for an event and get a “Welcome email” in your inbox immediately? This is an automated reply.
An automated reply is fantastic because you don’t really want to be sending emails to people all day long saying “here’s the download link”. That would really slow down your business. In AWeber a “Follow-up Series” email is that automated reply. But what’s even better is that you can create an entire sequence of emails that automatically lands in your audiences’ inboxes.
Our 21 Day SEO Challenge is just that. We wrote 21 “Follow-up Sequence” emails which start going to the buyers one day at a time right after purchase . . . I don’t have to be involved at all.
It’s called a “follow-up series” because it is how you follow-up with the audience member after they’ve engaged with you. That means you can go on vacation and they’ll still get emails from you.
The thing with a follow-up series email is that everyone gets the email no matter when you sign up. If you sign up today, you’ll get the first email (How to tie your shoe) today. If you sign up next week, you’ll still get that same first email (How to tie your shoe) that everyone else got. Perfect if you want to give the basics to everyone who signs up.
The Broadcast Email
The Broadcast email has a different use. We used a broadcast message today when we wanted to tell everyone in our audience that our BC Prime membership was on sale. Instead of being part of the follow-up sequence, this is something that we came up with today and wanted to share with our audience right away.
Broadcasts don’t have to be right now either, you can schedule them. If you’re going on vacation and want to be reaching out to your audience while you are away, you can create some broadcasts and schedule them to go out when you want them to go out.
I love Broadcasts for things that expire and things that won’t be relevant a short time later. An event announcement would be a perfect use for the Broadcast. What makes a broadcast different from a follow-up is that you only get the broadcast if you’re on the list today. If you join the list tomorrow you’ll get the first follow-up series email, but you won’t get the broadcast I sent out yesterday.
The RSS Blog Broadcast
Finally, the Blog Broadcast is the RSS feed powered email. When you write a new blog post, the RSS feed on your blog is updated. AWeber’s blog broadcast email gets automatically sent out to your audience when you write a new post. Of the automated email marketing services, it’s the one most commonly used by bloggers. For many, this is the efficiency they are looking for.
Automation Rules
But what does it do?
Suppose you decide to write and sell an ebook. You create the page, advertise it on Facebook and send an email out to your newsletter subscribers. And someone buys it. Of all the people in your audience, this one person is now different than the rest of your audience. This person is a buyer.
When someone buys the ebook they get added to the Ebook Buyer list, and using the automation rules they can be automatically taken off the original list. That means you can continue to market the ebook to the old list and you can market your second ebook to the new list. Putting them in separate lists means you can speak to them more personally. . . in a way they can really resonate.
And this is something that automatically happens when the audience member buys the ebook. You don’t have to be involved.
Think about this, if you send an email to your newsletter audience about why they should buy your ebook but half of them already did, they’re not going to feel like you know what you’re doing. The automation rules inside AWeber take care of that headache for you. Boom!
Duplicating Campaigns
I wish I would have known about this long before. I think I was an AWeber client for 4 years before I even noticed this one of their automated email marketing services. Remember the Ebook Buyers list and the automation rules that put the people on the right list? Well when you do that, you end up with a second list.
Some people say, I don’t want to manage multiple lists.
But you do, you just don’t realize how easy it is. With their “duplicate campaigns” function, you can take all the emails you wrote for one list and copy them to another. In our example above, take out the emails about buying the ebook (they just bought) and replace them with joining your Facebook group and voila!!! brand new targeted email campaign.
Automated Email Integrations
Integrations are vital to the success of your campaigns, sales,shopping carts,list building, business future. . . pretty much everything.
AWeber’s marketing materials indicate they’ve been around since 1998. I think that’s nice but to me it only matters for one reason. They have had time to work with, learn with and integrate with all the software you’re going to use to grow. Do you want to have to change email providers just because you add a shopping cart? No. . that’s crazy! You want a service that will integrate with everything you’re going to use to build your business.
Just for grins, here’s a quick sample list of their hordes of integration partners:
- Etsy
- Eventbrite
- SumoMe
- Rafflecopter
- WooCommerce
- Clickbank
- PayPal
See something you might be using? Don’t forget to think about that. You don’t want to grow next year only to find out that your email provider doesn’t integrate with your new stuff. AWeber integrates with all the big dogs and more all the time.
What are you waiting for?
Other than that, even though they have lots of tutorials, free webinars and live phone/chat support you should know that we are 100% committed to helping you make AWeber a successful part of your business. We have tutorials in BC Prime, do webinars every quarter and will gladly chat with you about any questions you have.
For the price, for the ease, for your business it is the best value for your money. If you’re considering a free service, then really think about how serious you are about your blog. Free is great, but not for the most important parts of your business.
I urge you. If you are a blogger and you aren’t using AWeber:
P.S. If you want to get a chance to meet the folks at AWeber, come to the BuildYourInfluence Summit in the Pennsylvania Poconos on September 26th. Aweber is a sponsor and will be on hand to answer questions.
The Power and Frustration of Netflix
When it comes to technology, I am change-resistant. Staying “current” is a costly, never-ending battle. I tend to find something I like and stick with it until it falls apart. There are alleged exceptions to this methodology, however. My upgrades to our home entertainment system often seem to occur right around the time of the […]
Monday, August 24, 2015
Quinnipiac poll of FL,OH,PA: fortunes of Walker and Clinton sink as Biden’s rise
Notice that in the crucial state of Ohio, Scott Walker is only at 2%. This is all come to a poll looking for these days: Walker’s failure. But other people are paying attention to the bigger picture, of course. Rubio is the only Republican polling ahead of Clinton in Ohio. Quinnipiac Poll: @MarcoRubio is the more »
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Scott Walker flip flops on birthright citizenship. Blames tiredness.
"Scott Walker said he accidentally took a position on [citizenship] because he was 'tired'"
https://t.co/BBMDYMZQJo pic.twitter.com/vqBv0rSU8b — Billmon (@billmon1) August 21, 2015 At the Iowa state fair, Walker was for elimination of birthright citizenship. By Friday he had “no position” on it. “I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” Walker said in an more »
Saturday, August 22, 2015
Scott Walker flip flops on birthright citizenship. Blames tiredness.
"Scott Walker said he accidentally took a position on [citizenship] because he was 'tired'"
https://t.co/BBMDYMZQJo pic.twitter.com/vqBv0rSU8b — Billmon (@billmon1) August 21, 2015 At the Iowa state fair, Walker was for elimination of birthright citizenship. By Friday he had “no position” on it. “I’m not taking a position one way or the other,” Walker said in an more »
Friday, August 21, 2015
Ken Previti Rages Against the Tribune Writer Who Hopes for the Destruction of Chicago
Ken Previti, like Mike Klonsky and many other Chicagoans, is outraged by Kristin McQueary, the editorial writer at the Chicago Tribune who expressed her longing for a vicious hurricane like Katrina to level the city of Chicago so there could be a “do-over.”
Ken thinks McCleary should be fired. He would no doubt be happy to see the Chicago Tribune go out of business.
Just the other day, Chicago Tribune Editorial Board Member Kristin McQueary wrote. “I find myself wishing for a storm in Chicago — an unpredictable, haughty, devastating swirl of fury. A dramatic levee break. Geysers bursting through manhole covers. A sleeping city, forced onto the rooftops. That’s what it took to hit the reset button in New Orleans. Chaos. Tragedy. Heartbreak.”
Pleas for destruction while claiming salvation.
The bodies of 1,833 innocent dead human beings in New Orleans – black and white, young and old – floated in polluted salt water during intense heat as carrion birds hovered overhead. This is Kristin’s idea for her city, Chicago. What a profitable opportunity! Think of all the education taxes that could privately profit the rich boys – if only the “in” people could eliminate the little people and public schools and anything not profitable for the rich boys who pay Kristin. This was savage talk that was meant to make her bosses like her.
Now, let’s see. What to do?
Demand that Tribune Editor Kristin McQueary be fired. Why? She used her position as an editor of a major news service to voice her desire to see your parents and children die in the streets and be pecked over by carrion birds. No matter how her fellow editors try to spin it, this is savagery.
There is indeed something indescribably sick about people who wish for death and destruction to land on the heads of others (not themselves).
Should McQueary be fired? That’s not up to me. I would, however, like to see her have some serious therapy or sensitivity training or empathy training, including perhaps viewing the bloated bodies of men, women, and children in New Orleans after Katrina.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
John Doe developments: Walker was target in 2011, Appeal impending
Eagle Scout integrity: “Gov. Scott Walker was under criminal investigation in 2011 for misconduct in office — even as he insisted he wasn’t — over a proposed real estate deal when he was Milwaukee County executive, according to records filed Wednesday in federal court” Source: Despite denials, Scott Walker was target of probe in 2011 more »
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Proof: Scott Walker’s aide Archer lied. Maltreatment she claimed rec’d during #JohnDoe raid refuted by newly released recording
Recorded audio from the FBI-assisted raid of Cynthia Archer’s home has been released. “The audio of the raid is being released now in an attempt to rebut claims Archer makes in her suit. For instance, she said in her filing that officers stormed into her house “throwing the (search) warrant at her without giving her more »
Saturday, August 1, 2015
Milwaukee Bucks arena is product of bizarre and bipartisan bedfellows
It takes an incestuous bipartisan pile of snakes to foist this expense upon Wisconsin when only 9%* of the Wisconsin public wants to help fund it AND when the administration is slashing public education funding. Steve Horn and Michael Arria have a long and interesting piece out on Truthdig that exposes backroom bipartisanship and public more »
August Blogging Shirt of the Month
 
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We had a great time figuring out what this month’s shirt was going to be and were really surprised one of these two designs wasn’t the clear winner.
Whether it is the airport, a coffee shop, at a meeting or when staying at a friends, the only question we have is “What’s the wifi password?”
But today the only question we have for you is “Cows or No Cows?”
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