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Do you do email newsletters? How?
Hey all,
I'm very excited about doing a weekly email newsletter for my blog. From everything I've read and my own experience subscribing to them, it's a great way to get readers clicking back to your blog and build reader loyalty.
That's great, but my head is swimming with the options of web services to carry this out. I definitely need something free upfront, but with room to grow. Right now I'm favoring MailChimp. From what I've searched out, Aweber has a pretty good rep but it's a bit pricey for my current situation.
Are you sending out email newsletters? Have you used these services or others? Would love to hear your thoughts!
I'm very excited about doing a weekly email newsletter for my blog. From everything I've read and my own experience subscribing to them, it's a great way to get readers clicking back to your blog and build reader loyalty.
That's great, but my head is swimming with the options of web services to carry this out. I definitely need something free upfront, but with room to grow. Right now I'm favoring MailChimp. From what I've searched out, Aweber has a pretty good rep but it's a bit pricey for my current situation.
Are you sending out email newsletters? Have you used these services or others? Would love to hear your thoughts!
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Permalink Reply by cooper on -
I don't send them and I almost never subscribe to them. ( except in the case of a site where I want to be notified of new designs). It is just my opinion but I find them annoying for the most part. I get too much email already.
It may just be me but I subscribe via reader or home pages to all the blogs I'm interested in so I don't see the need for a weekly letter. I'm less likely to read newsletters than I am reader stuff, and more likely to delete the newsletter subscription.
That is just the pattern I have noticed for me. I am sure others have different ways of going about keeping up with their blog reads, but for me it's not a good idea unless it's someone without a blog who perhaps is living out of the country and sends monthly email updates about their life to their friends.
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Permalink Reply by debi on -
I think it depends on what kind of content you are going to provide in your newsletters. I think a lot of people misuse them, but if you have good content that would interest people, I say it can't hurt to give it a try.
Anyway, I saw you are on WP, there are plugins to tie a newsletter right into your blog. Check them out: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=newsletter
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Permalink Reply by David Stehle on -
I use FeedBurner on my blog. That way if readers don't want to visit my web address or subscribe to the RSS feed, they can sign up to get my posts delivered straight to their inbox when a new post is published. It's a free service, easy to use and easy to unsubscribe to.
I believe you can customize some other things and do a "newsletter" of sorts if that is what you want, but I haven't taken it that far. I figure giving my readers 3 different ways to read my blog (URL, RSS, e-mail subscription) is good enough for now.
If you want to check out how it works, I have a little "Subscribe to E-Mail" icon on my blog's sidebar.
www.diamondkt.blogspot.com
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Permalink Reply by Allie Fab on -
Thanks for all your input, everyone! I went forward with the email newsletter (though it took me a month and half to get it together). The newsletter includes picks of the week + community photos + sponsored coupons/contests + article digest. I'm using MailChimp, which gives you an *awesome* set of features for free (to begin with). I noticed too that they walk you through some of the legalties involved with mass emailing.
Here's our first issue I just put out this week- http://eepurl.com/VIt
We'll see how it goes! :]
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