New AWeber Updates and Characteristic Releases

All account occasions in your time zone

We’re excited to announce that throughout AWeber, dates and occasions at the moment are in your time zone — irrespective of the place you might be. There’s no effort required — your account will mechanically “know” what time zone you’re in.

Verify ship occasions with out doing math

This highly-requested replace makes it simpler and sooner to test the stats in your despatched broadcast emails. Cross reference ship occasions with opens and gross sales numbers to seek out the perfect time to ship emails to your viewers.

Work simply with groups in different international locations and time zones

An e mail edited at 2pm in England was edited at 6am in California. Keep away from any confusion with abroad teammates and collaborative enhancing — your AWeber account makes occasions clear by displaying everybody stats in their very own time zone.

One much less headache when touring

Your AWeber account is aware of the place you might be. So if you journey, the account will replace to your new time zone. So when you head from Sydney to Beijing for work, and must get an e mail despatched whilst you’re there, your account will replace mechanically to Beijing. 

Wish to swap the time zone again to your own home base? Merely replace your pc’s time and your AWeber account will replace too.

AWeber — a worldwide e mail advertising and marketing software

Though AWeber is predicated within the USA, we have a good time our clients from all over the world. We’re so grateful for the enterprise house owners who select us, each nationally and internationally. That’s why we’re targeted on creating options and performance in our software that work nicely for anybody, wherever.

12 Social Icons to Add to Your Emails and Touchdown Pages

Including social media icons to your emails and touchdown pages is among the finest methods to get your subscribers to go to your social media profiles, and to get extra engagement in your social media content material.

Most individuals add these icons within the footer of their emails, like this:

That’s why we provide 12 icons (with 4 new ones added not too long ago). Simply paste your social hyperlink into the social ingredient and the icon will seem.

What icons can be found?

• Twitter
• Fb
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Pinterest
• TikTok
• Patreon
• Twitch
• Discord
• Tumblr
• Generic hyperlink (default)

Right here’s what social icons can appear like in your emails and on touchdown pages

Branded colours

Black

White

How one can add a social icon to your e mail or touchdown web page

Including social icons to your emails and touchdown pages is kind of easy. Comply with these steps:

1. Drag the social ingredient into the e-mail or touchdown web page the place you need your icons to seem:

2. On the fitting aspect, take away the social channels you don’t want, and begin including your whole personal.

Right here’s what your ultimate sidebar may appear like:

3. Now, design your social icons.

• Left, middle, or proper aligned
• Small, medium, or massive
• Branded, black, or white

That’s it! Save and assessment your e mail or touchdown web page to verify the hyperlinks work and also you’re good to go.

Assist for Google Analytics 4 within the Touchdown Web page Builder

Are you utilizing Google Analytics 4 to trace gross sales and net site visitors? Excellent news, if in case you have touchdown pages in-built AWeber, we now assist Google Analytics 4!

Merely plug your Google Analytics code into the correct area and you may monitor all of the site visitors coming from that web page in your Google Analytics account.

What’s Google Analytics 4?

Google Analytics 4 is a brand new property from Google that helps you higher perceive how folks use your web site. Right here’s what’s new in Google Analytics 4:

• It contains your buyer journey
• Information is predicated on occasions as an alternative of periods
• Cookieless measurement
• Direct integrations with media platforms
• And rather more!

Why ought to I begin utilizing Google Analytics 4?

You might be most likely already utilizing Google Analytics 4. If you happen to’re utilizing the usual Common Analytics, it’ll cease receiving information on July 1, 2023. So, earlier than July 2023, it’s best to begin interested by migrating your analytics account.

Observe Gross sales from Your Shopify Retailer

Along with Stripe, PayPal, and Etsy, now you can additionally see your whole Shopify retailer’s gross sales immediately in your AWeber account. Observe your gross sales towards your e mail advertising and marketing campaigns to see what drives essentially the most gross sales. Then, over time, proceed to test your experiences so you are able to do extra of what works.

You may see your Shopify gross sales in three locations:

1. The dashboard gross sales chart

A dashboard widget displaying gross sales, which incorporates Shopify gross sales.

2. Particular person subscriber exercise

Shopify gross sales proven as an inventory merchandise below a subscriber.

3. The ecommerce report

Shopify purchases within the Gross sales tracked over time report.

Use your experiences to make extra gross sales

The easiest way to enhance your advertising and marketing is by monitoring what works — and there’s no higher solution to inform what works than seeing your gross sales.

Ship emails along with your latest releases, fashionable merchandise, and low cost codes. Then, keep watch over your gross sales and monitor when your clients have a tendency to purchase — and what they’re shopping for.

As soon as you discover the times, occasions, reductions, and merchandise that drive essentially the most repeat gross sales, you possibly can ship your clients the emails they need, when they need them.

How one can discover your Shopify gross sales

If you have already got your Shopify retailer linked, you possibly can log in and take a look at your experiences. Or when you use Shopify and also you haven’t arrange the combination but, get linked now.

Observe Gross sales from Your Etsy Retailer

Now you can see your whole Etsy retailer gross sales immediately in your AWeber account. Use this information to enhance your e mail advertising and marketing and make much more gross sales.

If you happen to’re an AWeber buyer and you’ve got the Etsy integration arrange, now you can see your Etsy gross sales information in three locations inside your AWeber account:

1. The dashboard gross sales chart

2. Particular person subscriber exercise

3. The ecommerce report

You should use this data to see which emails triggered the Etsy gross sales, to determine tendencies of  what’s working in your emails, and to see how your retailer is doing.

The advantages of seeing your Etsy information in AWeber

Understanding your current clients is vital to creating extra gross sales on Etsy. Conservatively, you might be 3 times extra prone to promote to an current buyer than to a brand new one. 

Electronic mail is a superb solution to promote to individuals who have already purchased from you. One Etsy vendor and AWeber buyer experiences that 50% of their gross sales are constituted of sending common emails.

Testing, monitoring, and taking a look at your e mail experiences is one of the best ways to grasp what your clients wish to see in your emails. As soon as you discover the occasions, cadence, and content material that drives essentially the most repeat gross sales, you possibly can ship your clients the emails they need, when they need them.

How one can discover your Etsy gross sales in AWeber

If you have already got an Etsy account linked, you possibly can log in and take a look at your experiences. Or if in case you have an Etsy retailer and also you haven’t arrange the combination but, get linked now. 

Skip a step: If you join your Etsy retailer to AWeber, your Etsy clients will mechanically be added to your main checklist in AWeber.

A Contemporary New Look For The Message Editor

The following time you log into your AWeber account, you could discover that the message editor has modified. All the identical performance is there, however it has moved out of your means so you may get all the way down to writing your emails with out distractions.

What’s new?

Ingredient navigation on the aspect

The “transfer,” “copy,” and “delete” buttons are in a brand new place.

You’ll not see blue and black bins surrounding the row / ingredient you’re engaged on. As a substitute, you’ll see a light-weight grey line on the fitting aspect of your ingredient. The row may have a light-weight blue field surrounding it solely if you’re immediately engaged on that specific row.

Within the new model, you must hover over the part to see the transfer, copy, and delete choices.

Try what modified:

Earlier than

After

With fewer visible distractions, you may get your subsequent e mail despatched sooner than ever.

We’ve mixed the Header and Paragraph components so now you can create headers immediately inside the paragraph ingredient.

Try what modified:

Copy-and-paste from a separate doc in seconds

Do you draft your emails in Google Docs? Microsoft Phrase? Apple Pages? Some other place? It’s extraordinarily straightforward to repeat these e mail drafts and paste them immediately into the AWeber message editor.

Check out the message editor right this moment — updates included — and tell us what you assume.

Now you can navigate round your account with only a few keystrokes! The brand new Fast Actions Menu will get you the place it’s worthwhile to go in seconds — with two clicks or with out ever leaving the keyboard.

What’s the Fast Actions Menu (aka the Fast Menu)?

The Fast Actions Menu is a popup menu with shortcuts that deliver you immediately the place it’s worthwhile to go inside your AWeber account. Wish to create a brand new message, add subscribers, or assessment your campaigns? You may get immediately there rapidly utilizing the Fast Menu.

The menu will even present you keyboard shortcuts that you need to use to get round your account much more simply.

Merely click on on “Fast Menu” in your aspect navigation or choose command (⌘) + Okay in your keyboard.

Then use one of many 3 ways you need to use the brand new Fast Menu to maneuver round your account.

1. Keyboard shortcuts
2. Scroll the Fast Menu
3. Search the Fast Menu

Keyboard shortcuts

Within the Fast Menu, a shortcut keystroke is listed subsequent to every motion. For instance, “Create a message” is related to “Shift + M.”

Meaning, typing “Shift + M” will instantly direct you to create a brand new message, as proven above.

These keystroke shortcuts will solely work when you find yourself on a dashboard display. When you’re within the message or touchdown web page editor (or inside the search perform of the Fast Menu) “Shift + M” will merely work as a capitalized M.

Be taught all of them and transfer round your account like a professional (saving tons of time in the long term).

Right here’s an inventory of the keyboard shortcuts:

Get the printable PDF of all AWeber keyboard shortcuts.

You may scroll by way of to see choices like “Go to messages,” “Create a touchdown web page,” and extra.

Click on on one in all these choices and you’ll be dropped at the suitable web page. So, for instance, when you select “Create a message,” you’ll end up in a brand new drag-and-drop message with the latest template you selected.

Have you learnt precisely what motion you need? Seek for it as an alternative of scrolling. Utilizing the highest search bar, you possibly can seek for key phrases like “message” or “touchdown web page,” and likewise non-direct key phrases like “e mail” and “assist.” 

The Fast Menu will nonetheless get you the place it’s worthwhile to go.

Watch a demo

What shortcuts would you want?

That is just the start of the Fast Actions Menu. Is there an motion you are taking each time you log in that you just’d prefer to see on this checklist? Tell us by filling out this suggestions type.

An RSS feed is an easy URL that features updates out of your web site, podcast, YouTube channel, Etsy retailer, and so forth. You should use RSS feeds in AWeber to create lists of your current updates with no need to repeat and paste textual content or add photos.

Now, the RSS ingredient can do one thing even higher — it is going to replace dynamically (in actual time). Meaning irrespective of if you ship your e mail, solely the latest data will likely be included.

Right here’s what modified:

What’s a dynamic RSS feed?

“Dynamic” (vs “static”) means one thing updates in line with pre-set circumstances — on this case, the circumstance is when your e mail is shipped.

So, earlier than if you added the URL in your static RSS feed, it could pull in the latest posts, movies, or merchandise as of the second you added the RSS feed to your e mail (or clicked refresh). With a dynamic feed, it pulls in the latest posts, movies, or merchandise as of the precise second you ship the e-mail.

For instance, if in case you have printed a weblog put up between the time you created the e-mail and the time it’s despatched, the brand new weblog put up will nonetheless present up within the e mail you ship! Cool, huh?

Don’t have your personal RSS feed? Attempt utilizing a dynamic RSS feed generator like SnipRSS to create one with content material from different sources that you just wish to share.

What’s the important distinction between dynamic and static feed updates? Dynamic feeds replace mechanically.

Meaning, one of the best ways to make use of them is with campaigns — your automated emails.

So listed here are 3 ways to start out utilizing Dynamic Feeds right this moment.

1. Embrace your current weblog posts in a welcome e mail

You ought to be sending welcome emails to your new subscribers.

And now you possibly can add your latest weblog content material to your welcome emails with none further work. 

How? Add the dynamic feed ingredient to a number of of your welcome emails, pop in your weblog’s RSS feed, and select what number of posts to indicate (I like to recommend not less than three so your new subscribers can take a look at your stuff).

Right here’s what it may appear like in your emails (new subscribers would all the time see the latest posts out of your weblog):

2. Embrace your current YouTube movies in a welcome e mail

Do you create movies on YouTube? Why not ship a welcome e mail along with your most up-to-date YouTube content material, too?

You may add your YouTube channel URL to the RSS ingredient to deliver up your current video content material. Add your video feed to the identical e mail as your blogs, or perhaps a special welcome e mail.

Right here’s what your YouTube feed would appear like in an e mail, once more all the time with essentially the most not too long ago printed movies:

Be aware: Wish to embody only a playlist as an alternative of each video? Add your channel and playlist data to this URL and add it to the feed ingredient:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/movies.xml?playlist_id=[YOUR PLAYLIST ID HERE]

3. Ship weekly (or month-to-month) Etsy updates in minutes

Electronic mail is understood for making you an common of $38 for each $1 spent. Since your e mail checklist is full of people that already know you, such as you, and have perhaps even bought from you, emails are important for brand new Etsy gross sales.

So ship a daily e mail, both weekly/bi-weekly or just when you might have a bunch of latest stuff in your retailer.

With the dynamic feed, it’s fairly easy too. Design as soon as, copy your emails, and ship when you realize your retailer has new merchandise uploaded.

Right here’s how:

1. Design an “updates” e mail to signify your retailer. You need it pretty generic — so it is smart irrespective of which merchandise you add.
2. Add your Etsy retailer into the dynamic feed ingredient and select what data you wish to add.
3. Every time you wish to ship a brand new e mail, copy the latest e mail, assessment it for any small adjustments you may wish to make, then schedule or ship it. This could solely take a few minutes.

Your common emails may look so simple as this and nonetheless drive new gross sales:

1. Create a brand new draft Message or open an current Message. 

2. Drag and drop the RSS ingredient into your e mail:

3. Then, add an RSS feed or just your YouTube account or your weblog’s URL into the sidebar.

You’ll be proven a number of feed choices:

4. Select “Dynamic Feed” as your Feed Sort.

5. From right here, you possibly can edit the way you need your feed to look.

Select the variety of feed objects, format, shade, class, and what you wish to present — picture, description, writer, date, and so forth.

After you have your feed the way you need it, you possibly can ship or schedule your e mail — or add it to a marketing campaign.

Check out dynamic feeds and tell us what you assume!

How are you going to make use of the dynamic feed possibility in your emails? Attempt it out and tell us the way it went.

Up to date Experiences: A Quicker and Simpler Option to Get Helpful Information

Reporting is the #1 means that will help you enhance your e mail advertising and marketing. By taking a look at experiences, you possibly can decide which emails are working, who your clients are, who’s signing up, and even which days of the week are best.

The knowledge to assist information your success ought to all the time be helpful and readable in a look — wherever you might be.

Current updates imply our reporting does simply that — in three foremost methods:

• Graphs and charts are straightforward to learn rapidly
• You may test reporting on any gadget simply
• Consolidated experiences comprise data that helps you write higher emails

What’s new in AWeber experiences?

Your experiences at the moment are sooner to make use of and simpler to grasp.

Try what’s new:

• A model new map exhibits your viewers’s location on a neighborhood and world scale
• Bigger and easier experiences enable you to perceive your information at a look
• Sortable tables enable you to determine tendencies and discover the knowledge you want
• Consolidated experiences and easy accessibility to filters and actions present the the knowledge you need and want, with out distraction
• All experiences work on any of your units — it doesn’t matter what they’re

We hope these updates will enable you to write higher emails and make extra gross sales.

What can I do with this new reporting?

Graphs and tables are fairly — however their energy comes from the knowledge they’ll present you. So what are some straightforward takeaways you may get in a look?

Determine your finest performing content material

Nicely, for starters you possibly can determine profitable emails — perhaps resulting from higher content material or calls to motion (CTAs) — from higher-than-normal click on charges.

For instance, this “Opens over time” chart for October exhibits a broadcast that’s despatched weekly. An analogous variety of folks open this e mail every time it goes out, leading to pretty similar-sized spikes.

The “Clicks over time” chart for a similar time interval and checklist has extra and better spikes in early October than later. This might point out that the printed despatched in early October appears to have had a extra compelling provide than the others.

Use information like this to find out what sorts of content material, offers, and CTAs finest resonate along with your viewers, and ship extra emails with what they like.

Determine location tendencies rapidly

The placement map affords a snapshot of huge image worldwide international locations information, in addition to states and cities. Verify it each now and again to see the place — actually — your viewers is positioned.

There are a few issues you are able to do with this information. 

Determine success: Did you latterly attend an occasion in individual in one other metropolis? You may have a look and see in case your model is spreading by phrase of mouth, which might present as extra subscribers in that specific metropolis.

Communicate in your viewers’s language: Do you might have a number of clients in a rustic that doesn’t converse your native language? It’s possible you’ll wish to keep away from difficult language that doesn’t translate nicely. Or section customers and ship everybody an e mail of their language.

Ship advertising and marketing emails primarily based on location: Discover you might have a bunch of latest subscribers in California? Create a section of California-only subscribers and ship them a hyper customized e mail with references they’ll perceive and even a private low cost code.

All in all, understanding the placement of your subscribers helps you acknowledge them as folks as an alternative of merely numbers. 

Verify your experiences!

We advocate checking your information utilizing these experiences not less than as soon as per week to see when you can glean any helpful data, determine tendencies, and enable you to to create a greater e mail technique that makes extra gross sales.

Be aware: Did you’re keen on the previous reporting system? It’s nonetheless out there. If you’re in your experiences display, merely click on “Again to Basic Experiences” within the higher proper nook and also you’ll be introduced again to our legacy reporting view.

7-day Black Friday Marketing campaign Template

Black Friday and Cyber Monday drive extra gross sales for many corporations than some other time of the 12 months. Prospects have their bank cards out and wish to spend — so long as they get a deal.

You don’t even must promote Christmas presents to get Black Friday gross sales. If you happen to promote an on-line course or companies, you possibly can nonetheless provide a sale and leads who’ve been on the fence about shopping for are prone to make the plunge.

However, ugh. Writing all these emails to get consideration in peoples’ inboxes? That’s a number of work.

Not anymore! We constructed a 7-day marketing campaign template so you possibly can ship emails and get these gross sales with out a lot work. That is the way it begins:

Beginning with a lead-up the Saturday earlier than Black Friday, and ending with a Cyber Monday promotional e mail — this marketing campaign has your week lined. It contains dynamic content material for personalization, model new header designs, and a number of pre-written copy. However they’re your emails — make any changes you want.

It’s fully free to make use of with any AWeber account.

Useful 404 for Unpublished or Disabled Touchdown Pages

What’s a 404? 404 error or 404 not discovered is a standard error in websites throughout the net. It usually occurs if you click on a hyperlink, however there’s no web page related to that specific hyperlink — which may occur for varied causes.

For instance, if in case you have created a touchdown web page utilizing AWeber’s builder, however haven’t printed it but (or have unpublished it) the hyperlink related to that web page will present a 404 error.

Do you know that 404 pages could be designed? Nicely, we’ve designed ours to elucidate why the web page didn’t load. Plus, it has helpful data on how one can create an interesting touchdown web page that makes you cash. Right here’s the way it appears:

The touchdown web page builder is included in each AWeber account.

Direct-to-Cost Hyperlinks

If you promote merchandise in emails, social media, or different locations on-line, usually you wish to hyperlink on to a purchase order pop-up as an alternative of a product touchdown web page. 

Give it some thought: Your e mail possible already serves as a gross sales web page — with a product picture, description, and value. Sending your potential clients to a touchdown web page the place they must click on “Purchase now” once more means probably dropping out on gross sales.

Now, when you promote utilizing AWeber ecommerce + Stripe, you possibly can hyperlink on to your gross sales web page’s order type pop-up. When the client clicks, they’re instantly directed to enter their bank card data. No distractions.

Right here’s the way it works in your clients:

Prepared to make use of the hyperlink? After you have a product arrange in your AWeber account, click on “Order Type” after which click on to repeat the Order Type Hyperlink. Merely paste it in your e mail or wherever else you’re selling your sale.

Tip: Get new merchandise arrange in minutes and begin promoting from wherever utilizing this direct-to-payment hyperlink. After the acquisition, you possibly can redirect clients to a different web site or just a thanks web page.

Cost Quarterly Recurring Funds

It’s possible you’ll already provide subscriptions and cost plans in your touchdown pages — to make purchases simpler and herald common earnings. Now, along with charging weekly, month-to-month, or yearly, you can too set recurring funds on a quarterly foundation.

Coaches and instructors might have new, in-depth content material each three months, quite than month-to-month. Now, they’ll cost shoppers on a quarterly foundation — matching the content material launch. Coaches can even provide quarterly funds for a course, with a reduction off their month-to-month charge.

Service suppliers might discover themselves in an identical scenario. In case your tasks take a number of months to finish, quarterly retainers might swimsuit what you are promoting mannequin higher than month-to-month ones.

Even podcasters and paid newsletters can use quarterly funds — by providing a three-month recurring advert spot, charged 4 occasions a 12 months. 

Do quarterly funds make sense with what you are promoting mannequin? Supply one to your shoppers now with Aweber ecommerce.

Make Your Touchdown Web page A Homepage

Don’t have a web site? No drawback! Now you can simply set a touchdown web page to be your homepage — aka the principle web page of your new web site.

Right here’s how: Arrange a touchdown web page you wish to use as a homepage. Within the web page settings — below the area settings — toggle “Set as homepage” to on.

Your homepage will likely be accessible at [YOUR ACCOUNT].aweb.web page or [YOUR ACCOUNT].aweb.web page/dwelling. For instance, financialbiz.aweb.web page.

Or, you possibly can purchase or join a website simply, immediately in your AWeber account. Then you possibly can arrange your touchdown web page to indicate at your area. 

For instance, when you purchased or linked the area myfinancialbiz.com, your touchdown web page — really, your new web site — will likely be accessible at http://myfinancialbiz.com/.

Able to get your homepage stay? Right here’s a plug-and-play template that may change into yours with a few headlines, photos, and buttons: