Later this week, I'm officially moving away from sending my own in-house email (with my own email marketing software) to an email service provider.
Understand this… I'm a cheapskate. And I hated the idea of paying an email hosting service when I could instead push a few buttons on my own email marketing software and do virtually the same for free.
Or so I thought. Boy was I wrong. And I've been wrong for a long long time (13 years to be exact).
The reality is in-house email is FAR from free. Sending …

Over the weekend, internet marketing message boards have been buzzing about AWeber Communications… the popular email service provider.
It seems there's a new spam connection between those who subscribe to email marketing offers and AWeber. Those who track this sort of stuff find that they're getting inundated with spam offers — and the common connection is AWeber.
The evidence seems to indicate a very simple explanation… someone accessed AWeber Communications' master database of email address, copied a percentage of these emails, and sent a bunch of pharmaceutical spam.
The spam is not coming …