{"id":992,"date":"2013-03-15T12:42:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T19:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2015-02-11T03:50:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T10:50:47","slug":"i-messed-up-my-aweber-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/debij.com\/blog\/i-messed-up-my-aweber-list\/","title":{"rendered":"I Messed Up My Aweber List"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how many of you use Aweber or if you’re really good with it, but I’m still learning. I set it up initially with this blog, so all of my list subscribers and messages have gone into the same section. Then last year, when I set up my subscriber list for my niche research packs<\/strong>, I created my opt-in boxes in a new researchpacks<\/em> section and everything worked fine.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for some reason, when I set up my Dare to Get Personal<\/strong><\/a> site for this challenge, I spaced somewhere, but what I thought was going to be helpful, turned out to be a pain in the ass. So let me see if I can keep you from running into the same issue.<\/p>\n

I created to opt in boxes for my new site. I put one of them up in the right sidebar, which shows up on every page. The other one I actually insert into the bottom of each post, so that people see it when they get done reading and they don’t have to scroll all the way back up to the topic they like to subscribe to get future posts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, for convenience sake, I decided to create them in my debij<\/em> section. My thoughts were that all my messages and lists would be on one page so I wouldn’t have to toggle from one to another.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bad idea!<\/p>\n

Luckily I caught it with only 16 new subscribers, but by setting up my opt in forms for my Dare To Get Personal site in the same place that I set up my opt in forms for my Debi J’s blog site, everyone who opted in over at Dare to Get Personal ended up on my day Debi J’s blog list. That’s not what you want to happen when you’re sending out different messages to different people based on what THEY signed themselves up for.<\/p>\n

So I sent out a broadcast message to my 16 new subscribers apologizing, explaining what I did and letting them know that if they would like to be on the right list and keep receiving notes from me, that they should go over to my Dare to Get Personal blog and sign up again. I also included a link to the blog to make it very easy for them to do that\u2026 That’s important.<\/p>\n

FYI\u2026 Do NOT panic if you do something like this as you’re learning. There IS a way to segment out specific people from each list. So, until everyone signs up again over at my new blog, I have the ability to send my e-mails to just that part of my main list. Yay!
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