Tom Kulzer

Insights to help 450K+ creators, SMB & newsletter publishers connect with their communities. CEO @AWeber,

[Chris Vasquez @ClickPop]

If you've been unhappy with beehiiv and the price increase has you looking for alternatives, I'd love to have you at @AWeber . We've been on a tear releasing audience building and email marketing tools and are always looking for more small businesses to serve.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@iamrofe @beehiiv Your Beehiiv $1,622/year on Lite implies you have ~10,000 subscribers. That same annual plan at AWeber is $999/year and gets you AI forward features you can't do at Beehiiv or any other platform now.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@td_evans @noahkagan @IceCoffee54 They aren't naive, they are dishonest and trying to only talk about positives and not the reality of what it takes to get email properly delivered.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@noahkagan @IceCoffee54 No, "everyone" doesn't send via Sendgrid. Real platforms control that critical infrastructure end to end versus building on someone else's bad reputation neighbor.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@marcus_lowe @typesafeai I'd use a local model for this and pay for an app to do so, but I'd never use a cloud connected app to do this. Too much sensitive stuff passes thru copy/paste to put in the cloud.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

Props to @Crutchfield and Shaggy for their outstanding help with an audio matrix problem. Got a defective unit out of the box unfortunately, but they handled it super well and are doing an advanced replacement warranty exchange on a pricy piece of equipment.

[AWeber @AWeber]

We're one of the first email marketing platforms in Claude's connector directory.

Ask it to draft a broadcast, manage subscribers, or check your stats. It works straight from your real AWeber data. Here's what you can do:

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

The protip here isn't using the MCP in chat, it's using the AWeber MCP in Cowork to do multiple rounds of calls and drill deeeeeep into your data.

[Sean Cohen @scohen]

You can now connect your @AWeber account directly to @claudeai.

Ask about your subscribers, draft a broadcast, pull your stats, all in plain conversation, with the answers laid out in real tables and charts.

AWeber is one of the first email platforms with an official connector for both Claude and ChatGPT. We're not waiting for the future to show up. We're building for it now.

[Sean Cohen @scohen]

A lot has shipped at @AWeber lately. All of it in service of one idea. If you can imagine it, you can build it. Here's what that looks like right now.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

Is there a compelling reason why you *wouldn't* use this new protocol when it becomes fully operational?

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

Chrome 150 shipped an origin trial for the Email Verification Protocol. Your mailbox provider signs a token proving you own the address, the browser hands it to the site, and no confirmation email gets sent.

Confirmation clicks only ever proved one thing: ....

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

today, so a brand verifying on its own domain is fine. ESP hosted forms like AWeber, where one key covers many customer domains, are waiting on the fix. That's most of the market so we're continuing to watch this closely.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@scohen Both results are reasonable, but one took nearly 11x longer and only got results because a professional was driving the tool. AWeber took a fraction of the time, looks better, has much more unique interactivity, and most importantly, anyone could prompt to get similar results.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

Drag and drop is dead. Create anything you can imagine.

Others are still selling you templates and hours long todo list testing your patience and personal design skills.

[AWeber @AWeber]

Ep. 2: AWeber AI Signup Form Builder vs @kit. One has AI. Kit still uses templates. The challenge: a ZumbAlycia signup form #AWeber

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

@MLloyd8913 @AWeber @kit I disagree, go actually build one with the tool, the results are pretty darn remarkable. Do you have a site with a form you consider "tiny" and "cleaner"? Happy to do a head to head. There's a lot more biz intelligence here than a stock ChatGPT or Claude output has.

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

We’ve built some really cool stuff over the years, but I’m really proud of the team for how this came out and how it solves so many user requests.

[AWeber @AWeber]

If you can imagine it, the AWeber's new AI Signup Form Builder can create it. In just seconds.

You can have a trivia reveal a promo

[Tom Kulzer @tkulzer]

Given 999 form options, someone will always want the 1 option that isn't supported yet.

AI has finally allowed us to build the web form builder that everyone has always asked for. If you can image it, you can now create it in AWeber.

Open beta today, feedback encouraged!

[Sean Cohen @scohen]

AWeber just went live in the ChatGPT app marketplace.
One of the first email platforms to ship this.
One click to connect. Any plan, free included. Your lists, subscribers, and broadcast stats show up as interactive cards right inside the chat.
This is what meeting customers where they work looks like.