Instant Article Wizard vs Article Architect Update

I've written several articles about Article Architect starting with the first 1 where I tried to compare Article Architect with Instant Article Wizard.

Since that first article a couple of things have changed:

1. Article Architect has been improved and existing customers have gotten the free upgrades. I think Instant Article Wizard has also been improved however I don't know Jonathan's policy for existing customers.


2. Someone started a monthly fee membership site for Jonathan's product although you can still get your own copy of Instant Article Wizard for the original price.

And now there's a big change coming that affects those thinking about getting Article Architect.

Jay is getting close to releasing another new version of Article Architect and he has already increased the price. He decided he had left the price "artificially low" long enough so he raised it to $97.

However...

...if you want it at the old price, you have until November 4, 2008 to get it for $50 off (which is actually a couple bucks below the old price).

Here's what to do:

1. Go to http://www.friendswhocare.us/recommends/articlearchitect.html and then to the order form.

2. In the Coupon field, enter this code: AAMinus50 and then press the Update button to see your price immediately drop.

3. Go ahead and finish placing the order.

And of course, you will also receive the new version of Article Architect as soon as it's released.

Sorry to I didn't tell you sooner, but I just found out.

To Your Success.
Susan

PS - Remember, that coupon code expires Nov 4th, so use it now or you'll miss out on the Official Software of Article Marketing. http://www.friendswhocare.us/recommends/articlearchitect.html

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Why I Switched To Aweber.

I've had an online newsletter for around 6 years and have known about Aweber for almost that long. Unfortunately I didn't start my newsletter using the Aweber autoresponder service.

You see, like most people who start an online business I was short of cash and didn't really understand the importance of building my list on a reliable service so I wouldn't have to move it. But believe me, I've learned my lesson because moving your list from 1 service to another is a gigantic cost!

In fact, the cost of moving my list is 1 I've learned 4 times. and I can't even imagine the amount of money it's cost me!

In a nut shell here's the story behind my recommendation to use a well established autoresponder service like Aweber when you're starting your first list.

1. Started my 1st list with a free service. When I started making money I could have stayed with it but decided it was time to be more professional and go with a autoresponder service that had more capabilities and it would look better to my subscribers. I moved my list and lost about 98% of them.


2. The new service I was using was a good 1 and didn't cost as much as Aweber (still trying to save a buck). I was using double-optin for my new subscribers but unfortunately many others weren't. As a result the autoresponder service started getting almost all the emails they sent blocked by most of the big mailbox providers like Yahoo, MSN and AOL.


3. Having your email not get through is not good so I move my list again with an almost 100% loss of subscribers since I couldn't tell them I was changing services.


4. This time I chose a service that had been around for several years and didn't cost as much as Aweber. (Yeah, I was still trying to save about $5 a month.) The service was good and they stayed on top of things to get the emails through. Unfortunately the job got too big for them and they decided to shut down the service after I'd built my list back up.


5. I was able to warn my list so only took a 96.7% loss of subscribers when I moved to an autoresponder service that was part of a membership site. (Now I was saving even more money and only members could use the service.) The autoresponder had only a few features that were time consuming to use but it was sufficient to rebuild my list.


6. Unfortunately, the service lost almost all my subscribers! Yes, you read it right. When I didn't receive a copy of my newsletter I checked my list and found that almost all my subscribers were gone. The only ones still in the system were those who had subscribed within the last couple of days. I notified the service but they couldn't find my list even though I sent them copies of both my backups and some of the subscriber email notifications they'd sent to me.


7. At that point I decided I'd lost way too many subscribers and too much money trying to be frugal. I bit the bullet and joined Aweber who allowed me to import my backups and edit the confirmation request that would be sent to my existing subscribers. Now I still lost subscribers but this time only around 80.35% didn't click the confirmation link.

From my experience I highly recommend going with Aweber when you start your list and moving to Aweber if you decide to move your list. I can not prove that they get more messages through however since I lost fewer subscribers sending an explanation in my confirm message, I think they must get more email through to the inboxes. And while I've only been using them for a few months and still have a lot to learn about some of their features, I can tell you I have used both of the ones shown in the video below.

Here are the features I've used in the few months I've had Aweber:

• Modify the confirmation message: Create your own personal message for new subscribers.


• Blog broadcast: Create broadcast newsletters automatically from existing blog RSS content feeds or other sources of RSS and XML content.


• Spam Score Analyzer: A popular spam filtering tool called SpamAssassin is used to check your message and display any key areas that are being caught by the filter.


• Link Tracking: Track the number of times the links in your email get clicked.


• Mail to Multiple List: You can send your broadcast message to multiple lists by simply selecting which lists should get that message.


• Auto Format: For text emails you can automatically format it to a good line length with the click of a button.


• Personalization: The list of personalization options is longer than any I've seen on the other services I've used.


• JavaScript Form: JavaScript forms allow you to modify the autoresponder signup form without changing your web page.

And while I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet, they also allow you to share your autoresponder messages both with your other lists and with other Aweber users.

So while there are less expensive autoresponder systems I still enthusiastically recommend AWeber to collect opt-ins, manage your lists, and send newsletters.

To Your Success,
Susan

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Instant Article Wizard vs Article Architect

Recently I've been getting a lot of email promoting 1 of Jonathan Leger's new products, "Instant Article Wizard". Now Jonathan Leger does create some good products and I've even purchased some like his $7 Secrets.

However, I haven't gotten a copy of "Instant Article Wizard" primarily because I already own an article wizard ... a wizard that I think has more features and costs less.

So today I thought I'd give you a chance to see what "Instant Article Wizard" by Jonathan Leger and "Article Architect" by Jay Jennings can do so you could do your own feature/price comparisons.

First, lets look at the sales pages:
Instant Article Wizard
Article Architect

Personally, I think Jonathan did a much better job for the sales page. And, by putting more work into the sales page, he's helped his affiliates make more sales.

Second, the products:

• Both products claim to help you write articles quickly, even if you don't know how or what to write.
• Both allow you to do keyword research.
• Both allow you to have multiple projects for your articles.
• Both have a text area to work on your articles.
• Both have a copy and past function to grab things from other websites.

Here's what I've seen as the differences - remember, I only own 1 of these wizards so there may be more.

• Instant Article Wizard allows you to write in several languages while Article Architect only supports English.
• Instant Article Wizard pulls the introduction and conclusion sentences from the sites it finds while Article Architect allows you to read through the sites' contents and copy and paste whatever you want.
• The Instant Article Wizard videos show that you can move text up and down however they don't show if you can actually edit the words. And because the video shows you how to paste the article into a word processor, I doubt that you can. I know Article Architect allows you to edit the words because that's what I am using right now to write this review. Plus, version 2 of Article Architect has a spell checker built in so there is no need to use a word processor at all. (While I won't take credit for having the spell checker built into version 2, I did make the suggestion when I posted to Jay's blog.)

In addition to the above features, Article Architect also:

• Shows the number of times a search term is searched on Overture and how many pages exist for the term on Google.
• Allows you to research your keyword on 14 different search sites.
• Shows your keyword density for every article.
• Shows the number of words in your article.
• Allows you enter a keyword list for every article
• Allows you to create multiple bio boxes for each of your projects and stores them along with your keywords and articles.
• Includes an article submitter that comes with 6 article directories listed and allows you to customize this list by adding more and removing the ones you don't want. (It's not meant to be an article submitter but it works just as good as the 1 I was using previously.)
• And there's more stuff that I haven't even tried yet!

OK, I've sold myself, Article Architect wins the competition when it comes to features.

Third, the cost:

Instant Article Wizard sells for $67 - Article Architect sells for $49.95 - almost $50

$50 is smaller than $67 so Article Architect wins again!

To sum it all up:

Instant Article Wizard is probably worth the $67 price tag however ...you can't always value a product by it's cost since I think Article Architect is of greater value than Instant Article Wizard even before saving $17+ (Let's just hope Jay doesn't find out about Instant Article Wizard and raise his price.)

To Your Success,
Susan
P.S. Please feel free to leave a comment and vote for the 1 you think is best.

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