Personally I “feel” iContact has better deliverability than Aweber. I guess it’s good because they are very strict with spam control and the # of emails ppl can sendout.
Here are some of the controls I’ve found:
1-You can only email out 6 x the “subscriber plan” you have so if you have a 10K subscriber account the max # of emails you can send in a month is 60k. Is this bad? well depends on the size of your list and the frequency you email. so if you have a 3 K list and email them once a day, the 10K plan is too little because you’d be sending out 90K emails a month.
2- If a message has a spam score over 5 it won’t send a broadcast email. This could be because of spam words OR because the domain you are promoting in the email has been blacklisted. Yep that’s correct, they check the URLs in your message before sending and a blacklisted domain is blacklisted your message get a spam score of 8 if it’s graylisted like Infusionsoft.com you get a spam score of 2. So throw away domains can be very useful in these cases
3- They monitor spam complaints very closely so if there are too many complaints your account will be put on probation and you’ll be notified, if this continues they simply suspend your account. Since iContact is whitelisted by AOL I understand they must have a strict policy so it stays that way.
Something very good in icontact is that it let’s you easily import leads without confirmation, but if you use this irresponsibly you’ll get lots of complaints and get suspended.
What I don’t like is that they don’t count unique emails for the capacity of your account, but they use the sum of all subscribers in all lists even if there are duplicates(that’s the blue SUM in the image). But I guess all services do it this way so it’s ok.
The one thing I DON’T like is the fact that there is no way to automatically unsubscribe a user from one list when she/he subscribes to another one.
