I'll be the first to admit that I don't know everything about online business
I've been doing it for a while and learned a lot
But recently I made a big mistake and I want to share that with you guys today so you don't make the same mistake
Hi everyone. My name is Greg and I like to talk about online entrepreneurship
So if you're interested in making money online or anything in that area?
feel free to look through the channel and you might find some stuff that you like with that being said just recently if you've been
Following along. I just released my first master class
And this was something that was really big for me kind of a monumental moment
And I did a lot of new things in the process now in the process of this I had to use email marketing
Which I don't typically use now the purpose of this was to share the message that this course was now available
What kind of discount there was going to be for how long for the first people signing up?
And this is where I made a really big mistake
So just the other day on the 10th was when this officially launched and I had an email campaign
Ready to go that would send at 9:00 a.m
On the 10th letting everyone know that the course was now available and they could enroll in the past
I have used MailChimp for email services because you get 2,000 contacts completely for free. So it's really nice
You don't have to pay for anything and you can still email up to 2,000 people
Now one of my other business is the photography business. I've had no problem with this
I've been using MailChimp for a long time and under 2000 contacts. So it's completely free
There is no monthly fee that you have to pay. So that's great
Well, I decided to use MailChimp for this thinking that under 2000 contacts. It would be free and it would be a no-brainer
Now I spent basically the entire day on the 9th, which was the day before it launched putting together the email sequence
That would go out to notify you guys that I was available on the 10th the following day
well
I had this all ready to go
Scheduled to go out on the 10th at 9:00 in the morning and when I woke up at 7 a.m
That day, I went through my emails and found an email from MailChimp saying that they banned my account
This was literally two hours before this launch was supposed to happen. So as you can imagine I started freaking out
So this was a brand new MailChimp account
And the reason that they banned it is because I had mentioned how to make money now
I've known in the past that MailChimp does not like affiliate marketing, but I wasn't affiliate marketing
I was promoting my own course, so I thought I would be fine
However, in those emails I put how to make money. I guess I was talking about that topic
so there
automatic spam filter picked that up and banned my entire account now the only way to resolve this is to send a message to
Customer sir and wait on them to get back to you to improve the account
Well, I only had two hours that morning to do that. So obviously this was not going to work
So what I had done was created another free MailChimp account
This was my last-ditch effort and I set it up really quickly
and I basically just
recreated that first email that was going to go out and did this in under two hours and
Still got this out to you guys
but boy, do I tell you that was a pain and so
Unnecessary first thing that morning now that got the first email out so that bought me a bit more time
But I still have two more emails to send out to you guys one went out this morning
saying that there's two days left to get it at the discounted price and then one's going to go out on the 14th saying that
It's the absolute last day to get it at that 50% off price
So knowing that MailChimp automated filter is going to ban this account as well
I had to start looking at different email providers now in the past I have used a couple but I never really found one that
I really liked
So this kind of forced me to really look into different email providers and find one that I really like that supports
Promoting how to make money online or different topics that they're not just going to ban and then also is affiliate marketing friendly
So you can actually promote
Affiliate offers and not get your account banned like MailChimp would so with that being said in the last couple days
I've dug through quite a few of these and I ended up going with Aweber now
I haven't used a weber in the past
But I've been using it for the past couple days
And if you got the email today, then you saw that it actually comes out really nicely and their builders pretty easy
They even give you the first month completely for free after that
It's something like 20 dollars per month, but you have full control over your emails. There's not going to be an automated spam filter
That's just going to randomly block your account and you have no customer service to fix that for you
So this is affiliate marketing friendly
which is a huge plus and the second big thing that I really like about a weber so far is that I had a couple
Questions setting up my account and I reached out to customer service and I had a response back
I think it was within five minutes. If not ten at the most
I was not expecting this
but apparently they have
24/7
customer service so you can call them or you can shoot them a message and you get a quick response back so for something like
Twenty dollars a month. This is actually really good bang for your buck
You can promote affiliate offers and they have extremely good customer service
There's not much more that you can ask for with an email marketing service
So I'm going to continue to use Aweber and if I find anything wrong with it
I'll absolutely make you guys a video too, you know
But up until now I really do like it and it's definitely better than an automated spam filter blocking your whole campaign two hours before
It's supposed to go out. So if you want to check out Aweber, I'll put a link down in the description
They do have an affiliate program. So it doesn't make sense for me not to be a part of it
So I'm gonna leave my affiliate link to Aweber down in the description to be extremely
Transparent about this the affiliate link for Aweber gives me 30% of whatever you start paying per month
and the first month is completely free so you can just try it out and if it's something you really don't need then you can
Cancel it, but for 20 bucks a month. I think it's worth every penny to have a good email provider especially for affiliate marketing
So check it out
Let me know what you guys think if you want some tutorials on how to use it
It took me a couple minutes to figure out how to use the Builder and things like that
So if you want some tutorials on that, let me know
I would be happy to make some
tutorials on how to make your campaigns how to set up automated sequences and to build the templates if you want some of those leave
Them down in the description and I can put together some videos for you
But with all that being said hopefully this video saves you some
Frustration down the road with MailChimp and you don't have to go through what I went through
it's like a mini heart attack for no reason and lastly if you're still interested in the online income Academy masterclass that's going to be
50% off until the 15th. That's the end of when I can offer that at a discount
I put so much into that course
But after that you guys will always get 20% off the course just make sure you use the link that's in the description
On YouTube. That's the only link where you'll be able to get the 20% coupon. Alright guys
I hope you enjoyed this video
If you have any questions at all, feel free to leave them in the comments and I'll see you guys in the next video