Comments on: Aweber List Data Extraction

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 29 May 2010 05:03:09 +0000

Fantastic! I’m a die-hard Aweber fan ever since I sent out my first autoresponder, so my entire business is on there…this tool is fantastic for organising my backups (much better than the default one that Aweber provides). Well, my turn to share too…I’m using this method to keep track of who referred a subscriber to your list: How To Track Referrals With Aweber. It’s great, because it’s a great incentive for affiliates to promote YOUR list FOR YOU *evil grin*

By: Internet Empire

Internet Empire — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:11:47 +0000

It seems like a cool feature. It’s just too bad that I’m on GetResponse.

Regards,
Edmund Ng

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:43:52 +0000

I should add that my client who first asked for this has over 200 lists — it was faster to develop this little utility app than to try to extract and merge the data from all of those lists manually (copy/paste hell!) . . .

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:29:23 +0000

Hi Tom,

I don’t recall the reason my client asked for all of the emails in one file — I’ve sent him an email asking for details.

However, I believe it was so he could build a suppression list for some of his JV partners to use when mailing their own lists with his offer — or something along those lines.

Also, just recently someone asked for a way to get a count of how many unique emails they had in all their lists.

Since a single email can be subscribed to several different lists, the only way to get a “unique emails” count (as far as I know) is to combine all of the lists into one single list and remove the duplicates — that’s why I included the “emails only” feature in the extraction software.

When I hear back from my client, I’ll update this post IF their purpose was something other than building a supression list.

Best,

Paul

By: Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO)

Tom Kulzer (AWeber CEO) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:55:20 +0000

Paul,

Very interesting tool. I’m curious though, why would you need to do
anything with the backup data unless there was a problem with your
account? Understanding how customers interact with their accounts
is a big part of how we make improvements. I have to be honest,
I don’t understand for what purpose you would regularly want all the
subscribers in one file to the point where developing an application
to do that was necessary.

Enlighten me.