AWeber beats the Chimp, hands down.
September 04, 2015
AWeber beats the Chimp, hands down.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with AWeber
We used AWeber to design and send e-blasts (and track them) for our business WomensHealthMadeSimple.com which was an off-shoot of MenopauseReliefToday.com (for which we also used AWeber). AWeber was very helpful in providing templates or letting us create our own, and it was very easy to track our success with opens and click-throughs. It is MUCH MUCH easier to use than MailChimp. MUCH better UI.
- MUCH better UI than MailChimp. For those of you who don't know what UI is, it's "user interface." MailChimp's user interface is horribly confusing. AWeber makes things SIMPLE and you never get kicked to a different website for help, and you can find the buttons. I'm a programmer and I am happy that AWeber is easy for people to understand.
- Easy to use and understand their statistics and their setup. It's also MUCH easier to program your own template. MailChimp makes it really hard with declarations and extra specialized code languaging that's proprietary, and so I loved the fact that AWeber makes things EASY.
- In addition to my womenshealthmadesimple.com business I used AWeber in, I also recommended AWeber to my advertising and marketing clients from my other business GraphicAlchemyOnline.com that I owned.
- The one thing MailChimp has that AWeber doesn't is that test where the template code gets sent to about 15 different browser types on mobile and web. You can view which ones break the code or otherwise show the template very funky. That is most helpful and that is the ONLY thing I'd recommend that AWeber changes.
- Unfortunately, we didn't have much of a marketing budget for our women's health business, so we didn't have a big ROI because we had a very very small subscriber base. I'm sure we would have had a more positive impact and ROI had we been able to throw more money into our marketing efforts.
- mail chimp
MailChimp only has two features I like: their code tester ("inspector") that allows you to test your custom coded template on a plethora of different browsers and devices; and the fact they don't make your imported list subscribers resubscribe when you switch over to MailChimp. Otherwise, AWeber beats them. Oh and AWeber is more expensive.