Dear AWeber

Dear AWeber

Greetings from a big fan of your autorespond and email marketing software. Your functionality enables our business to start an ethical and long-term conversation with those prospects who opt-in to receive information about many of our ranges. It even enables prospects to request personalised advice on any subject of our trade they can't find quickly enough on our site or anywhere else online. We can even use you as instant delivery vehicle of "how-to wood-guides" in combination with Paypal secure payments. And everyone on our many retails business lists receive our monthly newsletter when we broadcast it every first Monday of the month.

Because of its functionality and ease to use I'm also using your software for my second career business 1 Plus 1 Makes 3, where combined expertise gives you triple value. There you are, amongst other usages, also the instant delivery vehicle of the E-training I created on "The Best AWeber Strategies and Tactics for Small Businesses".

For this Kiss2, the 1plus1makes3 and our retail FAQ & News blogs you alert subscribers when a new article (post) has been published so no one misses out on news, be it on new ranges in our retail business, on business and marketing books I've been reading or software programs that can make small business life simpler and effective.

And recently we're sponsoring our village community by hosting and managing the CharingKent website and use your software to inform every local business and villager of all the activities that take place in our lovely Kent village.

All in all we are very happy with your software, your first class deliverability and your excellent support team. Since recently I and others can even tweet with you in 140 characters at a time and receive a relevant tweet back.
There is however one thing that would make my life - and I'm sure many other AWeber account holders who use your software for more than one purpose (various departments, locations, targeted groups and/or volunteer work) - even more simple. Explaining this in 140 characters won't do in this case I'm afraid, hence this 'old-fashion' format of a blog post.

The last time I counted our AWeber account contains 23 lists for our retail business, 7 for 1 Plus 1 Makes 3 and 2 for other purposes. No doubt this will continue to grow - a new division in our retail business is about to be launched. For every single list I have to fill in the From/Reply email address and name, the Company branding details and global fields with specific signature per purpose. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I would be very grateful if you could make this task more simpler.

 Can't you give us 'department defaults' options where the above details are filled in only once per department (business, organisation, purpose)? And then in the List Settings you give us the option to select either

• Use "Department defaults" - with a drop down menu to select which department the new list belongs to and which then fills in the From/Reply address and name, the Company branding details and the Global Fields automagically
• Or create list specific details and manually fill in the above settings.

I've come to know AWeber as very tuned in to its clients and always willing to improve the software. So could you do me and I still believe many others this favour?

Yours truly

Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

Comments

[Justin Premick]

Hi Karin,

Thanks for sharing. I obviously can't promise that we'll add a particular feature, but I see where you're coming from and will be discussing it with a few people here. Cheers!

[Karin H.]

Hi Justin

Thanks for dropping by! Hope to read about it in the near future on AWeber's own blog.

Karin H