Comments on: AWeber’s Most Irritating Problems

By: AWeber Bugs Again » Alpha Gecko

AWeber Bugs Again » Alpha Gecko — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:47:59 +0000

[...] the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they’ve got a few really irritating problems. Here’s my latest [...]

By: Aweber Needs an API — Nick Temple

Aweber Needs an API — Nick Temple — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:33:11 +0000

[...] My friend Antone Roundy talks about what’s right … and wrong … with Aweber in this post: [...]

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:20:06 +0000

Its my first time using aweber and the feature i dont like is the form creation part.. It’s just plain lousy. But the most part im happy with it

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:10:10 +0000

editing a message is a pain in the b… it does take for ever, because it seems like the running some backups all the time. One little message three little changes 30-40 minutes. Am I doing something wrong???? Any input on that?

By: Ken Wu

Ken Wu — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:28:47 +0000

Great post!
The big problem with Aweber so far I find is the lack of function to import autoresponder messages in bulk. I have to upload 50 msgs manually through their interface.
But most likely other autoresponder services won’t offer such function anyway.

By: Antone Roundy

Antone Roundy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:44:26 +0000

Greg,

I’m not sure what you mean — if you click the “leads” tab and click “display view” (with “all leads” selected), doesn’t that give you the whole list?

By: Greg Gillespie

Greg Gillespie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:20:39 +0000

Hi,

I just want the “SHOW MY LIST” button?

Where is the logic in leaving this out?

Why do I have do a stupid search and include the “@” symbol to simply get my list to display?

Very annoying ; (

Greg Gillspie

By: Susie

Susie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:00:12 +0000

One thing that annoys me is how limited the web form fields are.

For one thing, if you import a lead or put it in manually, AWeber has fields available for all the usual stuff: first name, last name, full address, phone, email, etc. But if you create a web form for the customer to sign up, you can only put full name and email as the fields, unless you create a custom field.

If Aweber already has these fields in their lead table, why don’t they let you add them to the web form? Don’t know.

Another annoying thing: Since Aweber only lets you have Full Name as the field, it automatically parses out the first word as the first name and the last word as the last name. So if someone signs up as Jo Ann Van Hoten, they will be saved as Jo Hoten. True, you can use custom fields for first and last name (although you have to name them something else on your web form because AWeber tells you, “sorry, you can’t have two fields with the word ‘name’ on your web form),” but then you lose the capitalization correction feature, so if someone enters jo ann, your email will say Dear jo ann instead of Dear Jo Ann.