I bought Flash Optin a few weeks ago, but I’ve just recently started using it. The reason I bought it was that I thought they looked amazing, and from the sales page, it sounded like it was fairly easy to use.

I am a newbie when it comes flash, and can’t imagine that I would be able to edit any flash files, well, maybe if I got some very detailed instructions. So, when I bought Flash Optin, it was with this in mind. I had to be able to use it without hardly any editing, and it should be fairly easy to install on my websites/blogs.

First, I think that the price is just right. It cost $27, and that’s not a whole lot, but all you get are various optin forms. You don’t get a system to help you earn money, or any information product, or any software for that matter. All you get are optin forms. But on the other hand, they are the coolest optin forms I’ve ever seen.

Optin forms are important, most of the time, they are the reason why people sign up for your newsletter or whatever you are offering. If you are using optin forms on your website or your blog, it’s important that they are designed by a professional. I’m not saying that a sales letter is not important, because if you are using a sales letter, well, then your optin form will be part of it and not the most important part, but that’s a different story.

With Flash Optin, you’ll get the following five modules:

1. Flash Video Opt-in Player
2. Blog Sidebar Opt-in Forms
3. Wide Opt-in Forms
4. YouTube Opt-in Templates
5. How To Create a Sales Video (tutorial)

You’ll see examples of how amazing looking all the opt-in forms are when you visit the sales page of Flash Optin. What I believe is the most important part, at least for me, when it comes to whether you should be buying this or not, is how easy it is to edit and install on your website/blog.

It was incredibly easy to edit the text. It was a separate text file with all the optin forms, and all I had to do was edit plain text. It was done in a matter of a few seconds. Now, I also got the source files, for every optin form. But since I’m not a guru when it comes to photoshop or flash, I’ll leave them untouched.

If all you need is to change the text, you’ll be up and running a few minutes after you’ve bought it.

I’m using AWeber for my newsletter, and it was very easy to add the code from AWeber into Flash Optin. It took me less than a minute.

What I didn’t enjoy as much, was the lack of information when it comes to how to add the optin forms on my wordpress blog. There are lots of javascript and various code that I needed to add in order to get the forms to work. I tested it several times without any luck. In the end, I decided that using an iframe was the easiest solution.

At the moment, I am using iframes on my blogs, but that’s probably not the best way to do it. The most important part for me, it works and it looks amazing.

View the salespage of Flash Optin.

I have been using the AWeber autoresponder for many years. The reason I first decided to give it a try, was because I needed an email autoresponder and list builder. If you don’t know much about autoresponders, it’s an automated method to communicate with your customers and prospective customers.

It doesn’t need to be automated though. You can send email messages manually, on a specific time and date, or a pre-written series of messages. I believe that every Internet marketer, amateur or professional, needs an autoresponder. The people that don’t use one, will need one, sooner or later.

There are several professional autoresponders. A few of them are really good, like GetResponse, iContact and Constant Contact. I have tested many, and I have stayed with AWeber for a reason.

I heard a lot of good things about AWeber before I decided to test it. It seemed that many of the top marketers were using it, like Yaro Starak, Yanik Silver, Rosalind Gardner, Michael Rasmussen and Jonathan Mizel. I checked a few discussion forums to see what other people thought of it, and the testimonials were all really positive, it seemed to be the obvious choice.

Now, since I have been using it for several years, I have found three reasons why I think it’s the best email autoresponder service:

Customer service
I almost never use it, but during the past three years or so, I have had a few questions. The customer service is very professional, and all my questions were answered in a matter of a few hours, sometimes even minutes. This is awesome, if you consider the fact that I live in Norway, and AWeber is located in the USA. They were fast, professional and have solved any problem I have ever had.

Functions
I haven’t used all the power of AWeber yet, there are many functions that I probably will never use. But that’s ok. I really enjoy the fact that it’s a powerful service with more options than I really need. One of the options that I have never tried, is split testing. It’s a method to find out which one of your messages that actually gets read and which ones that makes your sales. It’s powerful and I might use it someday.

One option that I really enjoy is the one where I get feedback whenever people on my lists unsubscribes. It’s important to get feedback regarding why they decided to unsubscribe. From this feedback, I have created new more interesting emails for my list.

Email deliverability
I have read this at discussion forums, I have talked to many people about it, I have read it in testimonials; AWeber have the highest percentage of email deliverability of all the autoresponders.

This is important. It doesn’t matter how good you are at copywriting if your emails won’t be delivered to the people on your list. I am not saying that all the other email autoresponders are having problems related to email deliverability, all I am saying is that AWeber is the best one. 

How I use AWeber
I use AWeber to send out several pre-written messages and reports to people that subscribes at one of my websites. This is all 100% automated. I also use AWeber to send out one Internet marketing newsletter. I do this manually. I have tested their RSS service, a service where all the people on my list can get updates from my blog whenever I publish a new post, but I am currently not doing this. 

How much does AWeber cost?
The price to be a member of AWeber starts at $19 a month. I find this fairly cheap, at least when I consider all the features and the superb service. But there are way cheaper alternatives to AWeber.

The problem with the pricing of AWeber is what happens when your list grows. The more subscribers you have, the more you will have to pay. At the moment, you’ll have to pay $29 a month if you have between 501 to 2,500 subscribers, and $49 a month if you have between 2501 and 5000 subscribers. Some people find this expensive, and this is actually the only reason why I haven’t given five stars to AWeber for the monthly cost of their service.