{"id":499,"date":"2014-12-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?p=499"},"modified":"2016-06-08T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T15:46:19","slug":"mailing-list-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/29\/mailing-list-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mailing List Backup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You back up your computer files regularly, and if you have a mailing list, make sure to back that up too.<\/p>\n<p>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aweber.com\/easy-email.htm?id=422265\">Aweber for my mailing list<\/a>, and every Sunday I download my lists. That gives me a backup of all the names and email addresses, and it&#8217;s also a great way to analyze all that data.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Make a Backup<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to create a backup, with the following steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Log in to Aweber, and click the My Lists link, then click the List Options tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click the button to Back Up &amp; Export All Active Lists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup01\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup01.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup01\" width=\"422\" height=\"288\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Click the button to create a Backup Request<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup02\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup02.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup02\" width=\"402\" height=\"198\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It might take a few minutes to prepare the file, and Aweber says it will notify you when the download file is ready.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup03\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup03.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup03\" width=\"451\" height=\"151\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I never seem to get those notices, so I just wait a few minutes, the go back to the List Options tab, and click the button to Back Up &amp; Export All Active Lists<\/li>\n<li>Click the button to download the zipped file, which has your account name, and the current date.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup04\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup04.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup04\" width=\"302\" height=\"197\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Inside the Zipped Backup Download<\/h3>\n<p>If you open the zipped backup file, you&#8217;ll see a folder for each of your lists. Inside each of those folders there are more folders, with leads, broadcasts, and followups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup05\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup05.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup05\" width=\"317\" height=\"157\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The leads folder contains csv files, with active and inactive leads.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup06\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup06.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup06\" width=\"287\" height=\"177\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Analyze in Excel<\/h3>\n<p>After downloading the backup, I paste the active leads for each list into a single Excel file, and add the List name as the first field in the table.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup07\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup07.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup07\" width=\"272\" height=\"183\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I format that data as an Excel table, and create a pivot table from that table. That lets me see which URLs and which sign-up forms are most popular, for signing up for the mailing list. You can also see which countries your subscribers live in, and see how subscription numbers increase over time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"aweberlistbackup08\" src=\"http:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aweberlistbackup08.png\" alt=\"aweberlistbackup08\" width=\"302\" height=\"172\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By combining all the lists into one Excel file, I can also see if people are on more than one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aweber.com\/easy-email.htm?id=422265\">my Aweber lists<\/a> \u2013 perhaps they signed up for the newsletter, and later bought one of my Excel products, and signed up for that list too.<\/p>\n<p>______________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You back up your computer files regularly, and if you have a mailing list, make sure to back that up too. 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