Ask Bob The Teacher

One of the most under-used features at leading autoresponder service Aweber is the Blog Broadcast. This is where your readers can receive your blog posts in their inbox. It’s great for your readers who either don’t understand RSS readers/aggregators, or haven’t had a chance to set it up.

Here’s how the blog broadcast feature works:

Your readers put their name and email into an opt-in form, just like they normally would to start getting emails from you. But instead of you having to set up a follow up series and manually send out broadcast messages, the system sends the emails for you when your blog is updated.

All you have to do is

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You have to build a list.

How many times have you heard that before? So I don’t need to convince you that having a list is essential to promoting a business online.

However, you may want to stop thinking of the importance of building a list for just a moment. When you think too much about building a list, you probably get wrapped up in the self-doubt that plagues so many people.

• “I’ll never be able to get more than 1000 subscribers!”
• “Why would anybody want to listen to what I have to say?”
• “I don’t have anything to give away to get somebody to subscribe to my list”
• “I don’t want people to think I’m spamming them.”
• “I don’t even have a website yet, so how can I build a list?”

If you have thought any of these before - trust me, you are not alone!

Stop letting these thoughts paralyze you. Instead I want you to think of building a traffic net.

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