Aweber v/s Getresponse

[Jin tanner]

I like both ... but have always preferred AWeber ... in terms of getting your emails through to their intended recipients, not to mention their reputation.

What's your opinion?

[russel2peter]

Aweber's fine!

[ruth cowdrey]

personally I use Aweber in the past but find it more expensive. So now I am using GR.

And personally there is nothing different between these 2, it is just that GR is cheaper of paid for 12 months straight.

[sam]

I use GetResponse. However, I have no experience with AWeber. I did do some research before picking GR, and felt that it was best for my initial use -- because it was free!

Now that I have subscribers to deliver content to on a regular basis, I find it relatively easy to use. Pay the full year's fee and you end up with a first-class third-party autoresponder

[Kahnsee]

I've used GetResponse for over four years now and found that it has all the features that I need, it is pretty easy to use and the price is good.

I have also heard lots of good feedback about AWeber but I haven't had any reason to switch over. I'd be interested to hear what the features are that AWeber has that GR does not though.

[dr.evil]

A key issue that you should look at is restrictions on importing emails, Aweber was terrible, not sure what they do now.

After that review I moved to icontact. Its very very good and we have used its API to do some very sophisticated things. On the surface it seems expensive, but in fact the their affiliate program will pay for it. They have your affiliate link in the footer of all your emails and have recurring commission. Over time these commissions start to pay for more than the cost of the service.

[jeremy]

The biggest difference I found, and the reason I went with GetResponse, is that they're MUCH more accommodating for people who want to automatically add their customers to their mailing list.

Aweber offer their own Email Parsing service, but doesn't allow automatic signups from self-hosted scripts.

There are a few scripts around that do some things to make it borderline legal, but instead of walking the fine line, I'd much rather go with a company that wholeheartedly accepts and offers automatic customer signups.

When you look at the automation of internet businesses these days, automatic customer mailing list signups is quite a basic requirement.

GetResponse do it well. Aweber aren't interested in offering this.

That's what made my decision.

[dave denz]

I use GetResponse it works fine for me and I find it really easy to manage campaigns. I haven't used Aweber, but I suppose there wouldn't be any major advantages.

[joshua]

I have several clients that use Aweber and I am not impressed by their services. The last few months there has been unannounced downtime, the control panel can be a bit quirky, sign up confirmation can be slow and sometimes the javscript for forms stops working.

The most irritating part is the chat support...

"Hi, I am having some issues here"

"Everything seems to be working fine here, clear your cache, restart your browser, blah, blah, blah"

Since the last upgrades they did, the quality of service has gone downhill.

Like I said, not impressed.

[gavin tann]

GetResponse and DLGuard work together for automated email signups after purchase. This led me to switch from Aweber to GetResponse.

[ruth cowdrey]

Aweber. I think it's 10K limit not 500 - forget though. Anyway, I look after clients that use both, and I have access to both on a regular.

* Functionality and navigation - Aweber just makes it 'easy' and stupid proof - I'm an 11 year veteran and getresponse still leaves me scratching my head in some corners...

* Delivery rate is better via aweber (grapevine anyway - can't quantify with my use).

* Aweber has a limiter/gage that tells you how close your message is getting to the 'spam' level as you add more text/pics/links/ etc. - It's a great little feature that maximizes delivery rates and protects you a bit.

* Putting together forms and altering them etc. is a piece of cake w/aweber - and even though you can remove the link manually - Get Response generates code with a "Form By GetResponse which links out - seems harmless but that's a disctraction and exit for important parts of your site, aweber leaves it clean and offers you two versions of code (I don't remember if GR does both versions ((java/nonjava)))).

* Other than that - it's just whatever a person gabs first and starts to learn - I'd say aweber is a 5star and GR is a 4.75star solution.

[jane brooke]

Aweber. I think it's 10K limit not 500 - forget though. Anyway, I look after clients that use both, and I have access to both on a regular.

* Functionality and navigation - Aweber just makes it 'easy' and stupid proof - I'm an 11 year veteran and getresponse still leaves me scratching my head in some corners...

* Delivery rate is better via aweber (grapevine anyway - can't quantify with my use).

* Aweber has a limiter/gage that tells you how close your message is getting to the 'spam' level as you add more text/pics/links/ etc. - It's a great little feature that maximizes delivery rates and protects you a bit.

* Putting together forms and altering them etc. is a piece of cake w/aweber - and even though you can remove the link manually - Get Response generates code with a "Form By GetResponse which links out - seems harmless but that's a disctraction and exit for important parts of your site, aweber leaves it clean and offers you two versions of code (I don't remember if GR does both versions ((java/nonjava)))).

* Other than that - it's just whatever a person gabs first and starts to learn - I'd say aweber is a 5star and GR is a 4.75star solution.

very nive post..has swayed me in favour of aweber...

[robin]

Yeah i too prefer aweber...Though excellent post ruth ..very clear ...

[jackal86]

Have never used Aweber (shockingly expensive) but use GetResponse. It's great. What more could you want?

[nathankind]

GetResponse is a lot more accommodating. WAY MORE.

AWeber is not.

Aweber has better functionality and interface though.

I'm using both now.