by admin | December 6th, 2009
If you were expecting rest of the line to be something like…”But When I Sent Out My First Email… They Started Signing Up Like Crazy.” You would be wrong. I decided to publish this before I finished switching over
But what a stir this caused on Net Marketing Forum, Lynne McCutcheon’s blog has outstanding coverage and Scott Douglas even referenced it on the OBA forum
Jon Olson explained his reasoning behind his decision on Ilovehits blog, Tim Linden did the same on his blog and I guess it’s my turn now
First of all, I did not make this decision lightly or in haste. Jerry Iannucci of Safelist Marketing Tactics and I have been talking on Skype about switching for a couple of weeks now.
For me there where several factors that warmed me up to the idea of using Traffic Wave.
First and foremost, is Brian Rooney. He is an active member of our community. He is deeply concerned about getting email delivered as evidenced by taking time to address the deliverability concerns, I and other marketers raised at net marketing forum.
He also espouses the same philosophy I and every other established marketer does when it comes affiliate marketing; Promote Yourself First and only promote affiliate links after you have gotten them on your list
And Aweber is getting more and more complex. All the features can be overwhelming to new marketers. And some of the new features I really didn’t to too much about because I had other solutions that did the same thing already in place
But there was one big thing that kept Jerry and I stuck in the just talking about it phase
Its going to take hours upon hours to modify all the pages I have in rotation, I have a new back office to learn. I have to set up my campaigns change variables
At the Affiliate Funnel Saturday Seminar, Jon Olson said, “don’t switch.” That’s good advice because it is a tremendous amount of work even with Brian graciously offering to have his support staff to do much of the work
Talk about service
He is what drove me forward, Jon signed up during Friday’s Traffic Exchange Live broadcast. Jon and I have hoisted a couple beers together and I could see his genuine excitement with the Traffic Wave back office. Jon isn’t a techy type of guy.
And that was push I needed to make the decision I wanted to make but wouldn’t because of the work involved
That’s exactly why I echo Jon’s advice, don’t switch if you are already entrenched with Aweber, there is just too much work to do
But the back office is a blast. It’s straight forward and very easy to navigate. I am really glad I made the change.
And I say to everybody not building their list yet, get Traffic Wave and start as soon as you can
