Use AWeber to manage your mailing list and BookFunnel to deliver your ebooks!
Direct Integration From BookFunnel to AWeber
If your BookFunnel account includes direct integration, follow these steps to integrate with AWeber.
Account Setup:
- Click Integrations.
- Click the Action button and select + Add Integration.
- Select AWeber.
- Click Connect to AWeber.
- If you aren’t logged in already, AWeber will require you to login in order to proceed.
- Once logged in, you can accept the BookFunnel App and then be bounced back to the BookFunnel dashboard.
Selecting a List:
Now that your account is integrated, you’ll need to tell us which list you’d like us to deliver your email addresses. You must have at least one list set up in AWeber that you will connect to.
- Once AWeber is integrated, you can scroll down on your Integration dashboard and review your existing email signup pages.
- Click the orange gear icon next to your email signup page.
- Select Edit Page Details.
- Click the Integration List drop down menu and select the AWeber list you want this page to send the reader email addresses.
- Click Save and Close to save the new page settings.
Note: Any email address collected before you selected your AWeber list and clicked Save will need to be exported from BookFunnel and manually imported to AWeber (see below for instructions). All new subscriber email addresses collected after you clicked Save will be added automatically.
Use AWeber Without Direct Integration
If direct mailing list integration isn’t for you, how else can you deliver your book to your AWeber readers using BookFunnel? Using one of these two options:
The first option is to create a simple download page and then send it to your subscribers through AWeber. The second option is to create an email signup page on BookFunnel and then import the emails from BookFunnel into your AWeber account every day or two.
You Collect the Email Address, We Deliver the Book
Once you upload your book and create a simple download page on BookFunnel, you can then email its BookFunnel link to your readers through AWeber. The basic steps are:
- Create a simple download page on BookFunnel and copy its Link For Readers.
- Paste the link into your automated welcome email on AWeber
- Create a sign-up form on AWeber and link to it or embed it on your author website.
- Drive reader traffic to your sign-up form so that they can subscribe.
- Once they have joined your list, AWeber will send them the “welcome” email that contains the BookFunnel link.
- Your new subscribers can click the BookFunnel download link and download the book.
Pros: Available on all BookFunnel plans (including the First-Time Author plan!), simple to set up, uses your own landing page and/or website
Cons: Your BookFunnel download link can be shared online with other readers that did not sign up for your list, BookFunnel can’t track who downloads your book
We Collect Their Email Address, You Import the CSV
Available On: Mid-List, Bestseller, & Publisher Plans
Use an email signup page on BookFunnel and it will act as your landing page and delivery page, all in one! You can design a beautiful, custom landing page on BookFunnel in minutes. No web expertise necessary.
You drive reader traffic to your email signup page on BookFunnel and we will collect their email address on your behalf. We store their email address (and optionally first and last name) in a CSV on your dashboard.
You can then import the CSV of subscribers into AWeber at your convenience. Follow these steps:
- Create an email signup page on BookFunnel that requires (or invites) readers to join your mailing list
- Drive reader traffic to your BookFunnel signup page
- Export the CSV of reader email addresses every day or two from BookFunnel and manually import it to AWeber
Pros: Saves time by eliminating the extra step of building a landing page on your own website, if your link is shared online, those extra subscribers can be added to your mailing list
Cons: You need to export the CSV of reader email addresses we collect on your behalf and import it to AWeber regularly.
How to Export a CSV and Import it to AWeber Manually
If your BookFunnel landing page is not sending readers to AWeber automatically, you’ll need to export the reader email addresses from BookFunnel. Once you have exported the CSV, you will import it to AWeber manually.
To export the CSV from BookFunnel:
- Click Landing Pages on your BookFunnel dashboard
- Click the name of the landing page
- Click Export CSV
- Select Export New Subscribers (do not click this more than once, large CSVs may take a minute or two to be generated and available for download!)
- This will save the CSV to your computer, likely in your Downloads folder
Next, you will import the CSV to AWeber:
- Once you’ve logged into your AWeber account, Click Add Subscribers.
- Click the Import Multiple button.
- Verify that you are adding the subscribers to the correct list.
- Drag and drop or use the Click to Browse button to upload the CSV file into the system.
- Click Next: Map Fields
- In the next section, specify if you’d like to add new subscribers or add new and update existing subscribers.
- Verify the data you’d like to show for each subscriber and adjust any settings you’d like for these subscribers.
- Click Submit your Import.
Your file will be submitted for review and you can check the status of the import from the Import History page.
Were these steps inaccurate? Please let us know! AWeber is always tweaking their process and we want to keep our documentation current. Thank you!