July 25, 2008

Aweber Price Incrase and Mega Blogging - Choosing the Right Tools!

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

Am I the only one that noticed a brand new thing in my mailbox today? An Aweber price increase. Now $10 per 10k leads. Not a big deal for the smaller players and lists, but a BIG deal to me. As you all know, I use www.ShoppingCartCrazy.com, my all is one (branded) version of the big player 1SC. I make no bones about telling you its single, ONE, greatest shortcoming. Email deliverability!

Thus, when I enter a niche, I have, on occasion, used Aweber to offer greater email deliverability. It’s not easy! Whenever you have multiple tools to do various things, it’s simply beyond the scope of the Basement Empires I create. However, I’ve done it. Now, I really regret it. I mean, it’s easy to see how my secondary AR service will cost MORE monthly than my integrated shopping cart, in short order! The one benefit of Aweber beyond deliverability (and a few small things, like hover ads/lightboxes) was the fact that it was 19.95 regardless of number of leads. Wow - big change! Heads up y’all.

What does this do? Reinforce my reliance on (and unseperable partnership with) www.ShoppingCartCrazy.com (for good and for bad). Simple the best integrated solution out there for beginners and intermediates (and for people now, whom like me, are too large to change).

Choosing the right tools to build your business on is quite possibly on of the single greatest indications of your long term success (at least in the top 10)! Tools, Tools, Tools.

Anyway, on to more news! Yaro is realeasing his Blogging program and in so doing has released a couple of videos that are pretty good. As you know, I have little space for people whom earn big money, and produce shoddy video, but we’ll give him a break, since he’s running his own Basement Empire too.

This is the second video, and it’s interesting! I’m starting to warm up to this. Go ahead, take a looksie for yourself and see what Yaro Starak (that name - killer…) is up to. I’m changing my name to Bailo Lightfoot (no I don’t know what that means, I just want a cooler name).

Of course, the blog, Entrepreneur’s Journey, is a raving success too (for those people whom can actually spell Entrepeneur). Lucky he’s in Australia!

To your blistering, crazy, Immutable success!