The FWD: Thinking Show

Everyone here at AWeber and the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast wish you a very happy new year. We hope to answer many valuable questions about email marketing in the weeks and months to come. Let's do this!

This week’s question comes from Easter Alexander, a shamanic practitioner who is hoping to send larger files to her email subscribers.

To answer her question, we’ve recruited Josh Smith, Email Best Practices Manager at AWeber.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why most email service providers, including AWeber, put limits on file attachments.
• Free solutions to share self-hosted files.
• How an integration with Digioh can provide assist in file sharing.

Here are a few notable links mentioned in the show:

• Google Drive
• Dropbox
• Soundcloud
• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Digioh
• How to integrate with Digioh

To submit a question about email marketing, visit http://aweber.com/podcast.

We are quickly approaching the new year, and with each new year comes new beginnings. If you are planning to start a new business venture in 2016, then you have to check out this packed-to-the-brim episode of Ask Me About Email Marketing.

This week’s question comes from a life coach, Dr. Wasi Saleem, who recently launched his brand and is looking to attract more email subscribers.

To answer his question, we’ve recruited Brandon Olson, Content Marketing Manager at AWeber.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How to optimize your website by determining your primary goal.
• What elements to split test to boost conversion rates.
• Common mistakes that can sabotage conversions.
• How to use email automation to deliver valuable content.
• The importance of optin form consistency.
• Ways to integrate email marketing with social media.

To submit a question about email marketing, visit http://aweber.com/podcast.

We're back with another great episode of our official podcast, Ask Me About Email Marketing.Our next question comes from Deonne Kahler, a photographer who sees a large amount of shares on social media, but is looking to convert that traffic to loyal email subscribers. Deonne's website and photography is stellar, and you can check it out at http://deonnekahler.com/.To answer this question, I've recruited Scott Richardson, Motion Graphic Designer.In this episode, you'll learn:

• Ways to best ask for more subscribers without being too pushy.
• Some experiments to run with your optin forms.
• Tips for getting more subscribers via Instagram.

To submit a question about email marketing, visit http://aweber.com/podcast.

Welcome to the first official episode of the Ask Me About Email Marketing podcast. Our first question comes from Simon Kadwill, a book marketer who is preparing for his upcoming book launch.Simon asks us how he can use email marketing to support his campaign.To answer this question, I've tapped two of our in-house experts: Erik Harbison, our CMO, and Chris Vasquez, Creative Director.

In this episode, I introduce myself and the show before we dig into our user-submitted questions about email marketing. Put simply, our team at AWeber is super passionate about all things email marketing. We field a lot of great questions each day and do our best to help small businesses and entrepreneurs send the best emails. We figured we'd take our best questions and create a show.

To submit a question, visit http://www.aweber.com/podcast.

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