Aweber, an Email marketing service is best known for its versatile email marketing for bloggers. Top bloggers like John Chow, Shoemoney, Yaro Starak are tremendously making use of Email Marketing to promote their affiliate product and services using Aweber. Aweber was started specially for email marketing and to provide email newsletter. If you doesn’t know what is email newsletter than in short let me describe that sending blog update time to time directly to subscribed inbox is known as Newsletter.
4 Best Alternative For Aweber Email Marketing
Aweber has many good features like:
- 135+ ready-made newsletter templates.
- RSS to EMAIL options.
- Traffic and Click monitoring.
- Integration on almost any script.
- Advanced HTML auto responders facility.
Unfortunately most of newbie blogger cannot afford Aweber as it is a paid service and it cost $19/monthly to send newsletter to 0 – 500 subscribers. Below is the actual rates for Aweber Email marketing service:
| Subscribers | Monthly Price |
| 0 – 500 | $10 |
| 501 – 2,500 | $25 |
| 2,501 – 5,000 | $40 |
| 5,001 – 10,000 | $55 |
So if you feel you can’t afford the above rates, please scroll down for 4 Best Alternative Email Marketing services which are compared to Aweber.
Some of the top Aweber Alternatives
1. MailChimp
MailChimp is again one of the top Email marketing service which can be compared to that of Aweber’s and rate wise MailChimp is much cheaper to that of Aweber’s. MailChimp is serving around 400,000 customers with their email marketing service.
Check out their rates below:
| Subscribers | Monthly Price |
| 0 – 500 | FREE |
| 501 – 1,000 | $15 |
| 1,001 – 2,500 | $30 |
| 2,501 – 5,000 | $50 |
2. GetResponse
GetResponse is another best email marketing service provider. GetResponse offers a feature-rich, cost-effective email marketing service that’s priced to fit your budget. GetResponse serves around 140,000+ of customers worldwide with its Email marketing services.
Check out their rates below:
| Subscribers | Monthly Price |
| 0 – 100 | FREE |
| 101 – 250 | $9.95 |
| 251 – 500 | $14 |
| 501 – 1,000 | $18 |
| 1,001 – 2,500 | $25 |
| 2,501 – 5,000 | $45 |
| 5,001 – 10,000 | $65 |
| 10,001 – 15,000 | $105 |
3. Constant Contact
Constant Contact is another best email marketing company and also they are best known for Online Survey and Event Marketing. Constant Contact has around 50 readymade email newsletter for their customers. Various beautiful sign up forms and have a good migrating services provided to those who wants to use Constant Contact service in future.
Check their rates below:
| Subscribers | Monthly Price |
| 0 – 500 | $15 |
| 501 – 2,500 | $30 |
| 2,501 – 5,000 | $50 |
| 5,001 – 10,000 | $75 |
| 10,001 – 25,000 | $150 |
4. Campaigner
Campaigner is good if you have a short list of subscribers and you are running small kind of blog or business. Campaigner has 450+ readymade newsletter template for their clients. Campaigner is 20% cheaper rates to that of Aweber’s. Campaigner also has 30 days free trial.
Check their rates below:
| Subscribers | Monthly Price |
| 0 – 500 | $10 |
| 501 – 2,500 | $25 |
| 2,501 – 5,000 | $40 |
| 5,001 – 10,000 | $55 |
If you looking for Aweber alternative, I hope above Aweber alternative sites will help you. Do let us know which site do you prefer as Aweber alternative or do let us know if you feel Aweber is the best Email marketing tool available in the market?
This is a guest post by Sagar rai who blogs at SagarDezign. If you would like to write for Shoutmeloud, read: Shoutmeloud guest posting guidelines.
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I ended up canceling my aweber because I wasn’t using it much and my blog went idle. I lost about 30 subscribers because it didn’t make sense to keep paying for a service I wasn’t using.
I’ve picked up some free time to start blogging again, and I want to get my mailing list going. MailChimp and Get Response both look like good ones since I don’t really want to pay for anything if I’m not using it (and under 100 subscribers, I’m probably not using it)
Do you know if either of them have a max for the number of subscribers?
Since I can’t edit my last comment, I also was curious if the delivery rate is as good for Mail Chimp and Get Response. I know Aweber is godly when it comes to delivery rate.
Mailchimp is a perfect alternative for Aweber. And best part of Mailchimp is they charge FREE for 0 – 500 subscribers .
So you can register and try their service and if you are satisfied you can continue their paid service.
I too agree with you, mail chimp is a best try…
Blake, i use mailchimp and usually get a 99% delivery rate when i use their inbox inspector tools. They have numerous tools that help get your emails into the inbox of your subscribers. [mailchimp is perfect if you dont plan on sending 100 emails per day]
When they released their free plan i did get abit worried the delivery rate might go down due to spammers abusing their system, however it hasnt seemed to ruin it.
Would love to say the same about Get Response, but too be honest – i have never used them.
Sagar,
Great Post. These are great alternatives. I’m using Mailchimp on one of my blog and it works awesome.
Another great alternative is icontact.
Thanks for sharing this great Post.
Thank Deevesh .
BTW icontact is also a good alternative since my article covered only 4 best alternatives, I couldn’t mention about icontant. Otherwise icontact, vertical response are also best ones.
Hi Sagar
Nice article and very timely too; I’m in the process of deciding which e-marketing service to use.
Thanks for sharing.
Michael
You are most welcome.
Hi Sagar
Thanks for sharing this info. email marketing is certainly very useful and powerful for affiliate marketing.
You mention that Get Response is free for 100 subscribers. I thought they are free for only 10 subscribers and after that you have to convert to their $9.95 plan. Correct me if I am wrong…
Hello Sammy,
I just cross checked GetResponse pricing and what ever I mentioned is proper. They offer FREE services for 0 – 100 subscribers.
You can check rates on their site http://www.getresponse.com/pricing
Hey Sagar Awber Rocks because damn good in mail marketing
Is there any services available by which we can send 100K emails. Cant we send emails from our server?
To send 100k email at once, you can use Aweber and any of the 4 alternatives that mentioned above. Go to their respective homepage and click PRICING to see their charges for 100k emails.
And you can’t send 100k from your cpanel due to bandwidth limitation. Yes you can send few emails but not in 100k’s…. If that was possible almost everyone would have done the same instead of paying for any of the services mentioned above.
Nice
, but it should be like ” 4 cheaper Aweber Alternative for email marketing” because being cheaper to any other product dose not make you a best alternative. Aweber is by far the best in the business.
Good price comparison up there.
Hi Sagar
Before reading this article, I only knew Mailchimp & Aweber. I was looking for an alternative. Thanks for the information ..
What about Feedblitz ??
First thing, thanks for the appreciation.
Secondly I had never heard about feedblitz before, otherwise I would have mentioned it on my article
I started using mail chimp a couple of months back and I love it. So easy to use and it is still free for me for now. I am close to breaking the 500 subscriber mark but not there quite yet. I think I will continue with them even when I have to start paying.
I’m using AWeber and I’m very satisfied, been using them for years. I agree with your list, although I don’t know much about Campaigner, and would probably add iContact instead (if it was my list).
I am using Aweber from the last 5 years and I have used GetResponse as well. I have not used other 2 services but I thing Aweber is the best with more than 99% delivery rate and so many great features.
I admit Aweber is expensive than other services but if the subscriber list will grow, you will find Aweber is best.
Just imagine you have got a subscriber lis of 25,000 and if you consider only 5 more conversions with the same list using Aweber as compare to others will be more profitable and I know this happens.
You can also use Aweber as a replacement of feedburner and broadcast your articles in twitetr and facebook which you can’t use in other services.
Pritam Nagrale
I know people who use these 4 and are happy. However, we wanted an integrated shopping cart and markerting email platform. We finally settle on redoakcart.com. If you want more than just email, you should check them out.
Chris…..
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I consider Mailchimp as a good alternative for Aweber for it is free of charge to get a 0- 500 subscribers. But it is not a bad idea shifting to Aweber if you already have lots of profits to gain, it may be expensive but it is worth the cost.
I vouch for Mail Chimp, they have great features for the price of zero, up to 500 subs. Which for smaller marketers is plenty.
But will also look into Get Response as I have a tiny (but profitable) list I can probably use them for.
Cheers,
Myra
I have been using AWeber since 2008 I am OK with the system however the affiliate program is terribly bad. They don’t pay the affiliates commissions. I don’t know if I am the only one that has this problem, but I haven’t been getting my commissions checks. They play games, they tell you that they have sent you the checks and they don’t. They were supposed to send me a check for $30 dollars on December 17 2009. I never got it. I called them and they said I had to wait 6 month for them to re-issue it, because it cost them money to re-issue a check before it expires! I waited 7 month, and they have been playing games. I have called so many times; sometimes they say they sent it, other times they say it will take 2 more weeks, other times they tell me to wait a couple more weeks, you name it, every time I call, they tell me something different. It is October 2010 already and they still have not sent my check. I did get one commission from another period, but I have never gotten the December 17th commission. After this happened I stopped promoting the program and I made all the affiliates that I had signed up cancel the program. I only have one left. I would have at least had 20 affiliates by now had I continue promoting it, but what would be the purpose if they don’t pay. I would have canceled the service already, but I was under the impression that the check was going to be sent to me. Now I am sure they will continue playing games and lying to me every time I call and they will not pay me. Unbelievable!
It is so hard for me to understand why a big company as AWeber would have such a big problem sending an affiliate check for $30 dollars. I have been living at the same address for 11 years and never ever had a lost check before. I have no problems with all my other affiliates programs. They all send the checks on time and never get lost.
They are now telling me they did send the check and that maybe it got lost again! “We have no control over the post office once we send the checks” They told me that the first time and now they are saying it again. What are the chances that a check gets lost twice? If they had sent it, I would have received it. I live in a very safe neighborhood and I never have had this problem with any checks being lost.
These people at AWeber don’t treat their affiliate with respect. They are very ungrateful; they are the lowest of the lowest. This is so hard to believe, but is true. Only $30 dollars!
They have to send me another commission now in October, we will see what happens.
I do not recommend the affiliate program of AWeber. If this happened to me, I am sure it must have happened to many others, but no one is saying it.
In addition, their customer service is very bad; people that answer the phone are not nice at all.
Just because of this problem, I will stop using them. They don’t deserve to get my $19 dollars a month. Even though $19 dollars may not mean much to AWeber (or maybe it does, they seem to have problems paying $30) I will get another autoresponder services. It will mean a lot of work to me since I have to set up all my campaigns again, but I don’t mind. It is not the $30 dollars I care about, it is the fact that they are not being honest.
I would like to know if anyone has had the same problem with AWeber not paying their commissions.
Was trying to make my first mailing list. Was searching for aweber alternatives and found your post, Harsh
Seems like people are recommending Mailchimp. I might give it a go
am goin to try Mailchimp
Do not sign up for AWeber affiliate program, you won’t get paid. It seems to me they have a problem when you start earning commissions every month. If you make $30 dollars once a year, you might get you check, but more than that and the commission checks will get lost in the mail. Here is my last e-mail sent to them:
When are you going to send me the check commission from 12/17/2009? See the e-mail that I received Jeff Crandall (he put 12/17/2010, but the date is 12/17/2009). It’s been more than a year! Why do you make it so difficult? It’s only $30 dollars, what is your problem?
In the e-mail he says it could take from 6 to 12 weeks, well it’s been 11 weeks, next week it will be 12, what will be your next excuse? Every time I send you an e-mail to ask for my check, you give me excuses, excuses and more excuses. I am wondering what it will be next? Shame on you! A company like AWeber playing these games with the affiliate commission? Send me my check!
—————————————-
The check from 10/17/10 for $34.20 will not be able to be re-cut until
six months has surpassed or until we have received that returned back
to us. However, I have placed your check re-cut for 12/17/10 in the
amount of $30 into the queue. This process can take about 6-12 weeks
but we will be sending that out immediately as it is re-cut for you.
Let us know if you have any further questions as we would be
more than happy to help.
Regards,
Jeff Crandall
Customer Solutions Supervisor
AWeber Communications, Inc.
http://www.aweber.com
Simply great!! I was lookinf forward to Aweber but price was an issue… now I can go for MailChimp ..
Thanks Sagar…
We use GetResponse and we love them. Easy interface, good flexibility in designing web forms or newsletters, etc. Good deliverability and pricing as well.