Aweber Settings for Auto RSS to Email Feature
March 3, 2009
Ok, I’m working on properly configuring a feature in Aweber, which is an email auto-responder series that we use to manage our lists. I was looking a bit closer into our auto responder series from aweber and saw that they offer an rss to email feature where rss feeds can be directly imported into aweber and set to que up.
I believe I have now set the rss feed correctly into Aweber, so when I enter a post into here, the rss feed is to be imported into Aweber and then listed in my pending broadcasts. . Not exactly sure what happens next, I have a notice on the system that the rss feed was last checked and it has no date in the area.
I do see that we have the ability to preview the email blast prior to it going out. You can set it to go automatically as well but have the flexibility to put the emails into a preview queue that you can manually click ‘go’ to actually send out the emails to your list. Not a bad idea in our situation as not all of our posts will be designed to be emailed as well, and especially useful if we have a team member writing the blog posts. It’s always a good idea to review the posts before we send them out.
You can also set it to send on a certain time and day, which is quite useful. This is still at test, thanks for bearing with me.
I am also trying to set this up on my site. But it doesn’t seem to send out to my list when I post a new message in wordpress to my blog. Any tips you might have for me?
Go check the queue in Aweber… you may have to manually approve them. I think this setting is optional. Have you done that?
Anyone have a cool template / format to use with this?