AWeber vs. HeyReach

AWeber is an excellent email marketing solution for small to mid-sized businesses, especially those that are just starting with email marketing campaigns. AWeber is also good for bloggers. But it's not perfect for an affiliate marketer who wants to make a landing page on AWeber. Businesses that require advanced segmentation options may need to consider other email marketing platforms.

We use it for all of our LinkedIn outbound internally, and it only takes one employee to oversee. We have 5 senders, so something that would have previously taken a lot of coordination and education (writing SOPs, training the rest of the team, overseeing that they follow the process daily/weekly/monthly, etc.) is now handled by one person in a few hours every week. If you compare it to legacy, enterprise tools–it's a no brainer. For a fraction of the cost, you are getting the same (or significantly more) value and features, no complicated annual contract that ties you down. Not to mention that they have incredible customer service and content. I habitually speak with the founding team, have asked for features and then seen them in the product within days/weeks. You can't get that at any of the competitors.

Incentivized

• List building: AWeber makes it easy to grow opt-in subscribers through customizable signup forms as well an integration with tools like Sumo and Hustle Pro.
• List segmentation: with a little more information about each subscriber, it's easy to create custom segmented lists based on different criteria.
• Deliverability: AWeber enforces opt-in rules to keep spammers out of its system and improve deliverability rates for reputable users. We rarely have issues with our messages from AWeber being routed to spam folders.
• Double opt-in: AWeber makes it easy to set up double opt-in to make extra certain you have a high-quality mailing list.

Incentivized

• LinkedIn Outreach at Large Scale
• Getting data from LinkedIn like people who interacted with the posts etc.
• Reply to the prospects all at one place
• Check the analytics for multiple accounts in one place
• Manage multiple LinkedIn Account at a single place

Incentivized

• Aweber would be even better if it had the ability to host landing pages. I have to use a tool like landingpages.net to do this if I don't want to create the landing pages as part of my client's website. If I manage their site, it isn't a problem, but it keeps me from using Aweber for clients who manage their own sites or dont' have one.
• Aweber would greatly benefit from a more robust reseller program. Firms like mine have multiple clients and, with each client needing an individual Aweber account, it would be nice to have access to margin so that we could resell the services.
• Along the lines of a reseller program, it would be great of Aweber allowed resellers to white label the interface and administrate multiple accounts from one agency account.

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• The master inbox could be improved (better hot keys, smoother experience)
• Probably on the roadmap, but the ability to create sub-sequences

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AWeber is easy and intuitive for me use. I really like the simplicity and the structure of the work flow as it saves me time. AWeber also integrates with all the other programs, systems and gateways that I use on a daily basis (WordPress, Paypal, LeadPages, Facebook and more) and if I have any questions or have trouble the AWeber customer service technicians are very helpful.

See previous answers ... the design / customization interface could be more intuitive and elegant .. for example, for me it has been difficult to easily figure out how to place pictures / images to the right, left or center of text.

Incentivized

It is a very good tool especially the way they are improving themselves, as I have been using this platform before they even launched properly, & they are giving the requested features as well. The only thing is that as they scale, they need to have a better customer support team to handle the issues

Incentivized

I have always received prompt phone or live chat support that has resolved my issues on the first call in a competent, knowledgeable and friendly manner. By contrast MailChimp offers no live chat or phone support; they only offer email support and the response time for MailChimp is slow by comparison to AWeber.

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We often use Canva to design our content and then export it as an image to upload into Aweber, as Aweber designs and limitations are too much of a hindrance to our needs. Canva is a brilliant tool for marketing and saves you a lot of time being able to adapt or change an existing template you create.

Many of the competitors aren't listed in TrustRadius. But there are dozens more. They are either very enterprise or quite new (small challenger companies). HeyReach makes the enterprise options look wildly pricey and unreasonable, and they stand out from the other challengers by their approach, content, and roadmap. I've used so many tools and HeyReach has definitely made its way into our standard rotation.

Incentivized

• Aweber delivers my email fast and reliably, never had a problem tech support could not handle (by the way, their support is great!)
• Since I have been with Aweber for so many years, I have an unlimited plan for a very affordable rate
• Aweber may not be a sexy as some of the new kids on the block, but it is a solid offering you should consider when choosing an autoresponder

Incentivized

• It is good for ROI if you have multiple accounts to connect as it is very cheap
• It is bad for ROI if you are looking to connect lesser accounts as there are better tools with same pricing at a smaller scale

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