A little experiment I’ve been doing with aWeber inspired me to share this with you. If you’ve never heard of aWeber, it’s a service that allows you to generate forms to capture email addresses on your sites. You can store these email addresses in as many different lists as you want. Once someone joins one of your lists, you can automatically send them an autoresponder email series and then follow up with random messages whenever you want.

If you don’t have it yet, I highly recommend it. My business couldn’t function with out it.

On one of my sites that gets a good amount of traffic ( about 600 visitors a day ) I collect email addresses for a newsletter. It currently has about 4,200 subscribers, but I’ve been only adding about 25 new subscribers per week. That’s because the only way I’ve been collecting email addresses is via a traditional pop-up window that only displays on my homepage.

Well, since the latest version of Explorer and FireFox automatically block pop-ups, my list signup form hasn’t been showing to too many people.

I decided to get off my lazy ass and try something new. Here’s what I did yesterday. (more…)