Comments on: Why Email Newsletters Can Improve your Blog

By: Infomist SEO

Infomist SEO — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:35:46 +0000

Buy emailing New letter more and more people comes to your blog. In this you can gain what you wants.

By: Catherine Scholz

Catherine Scholz — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:33:57 +0000

Hey Darren,

Great article! I re-posted it on my site:

http://www.catswebweave.com/archives/159

All the best,
Catherine – Web Weaver

By: Allen - Montreal Web Design

Allen - Montreal Web Design — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:59:31 +0000

Email, can also get you in on some spam lists.

Allen
Adeo Internet Marketing

By: Blogs and Email - How to Get the Best of Both Worlds

Blogs and Email - How to Get the Best of Both Worlds — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:01:58 +0000

[...] you are interested about starting an email newsletter, Darren has written a few interesting articles in the past. You can also find a few tips for [...]

By: SEO UK

SEO UK — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:51:24 +0000

Great post :)

So you don’t make any money from your newsletter at all, it seems strange to hear that most people wouldnt be able to resist?

By: Nothing Ventured » blog » How to write a successful newsletter

Nothing Ventured » blog » How to write a successful newsletter — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:09:24 +0000

[...] As this will be my first newsletter, I did some searching round the blogosphere and found a few useful articles for people in the same position as me. Problogger has why email newsletters can improve your blog and email newsletter tips for bloggers, while Yaro Starak has beginner list building advice and three golden rules to avoid newsletter screwups. I know that Mark at 45N5 has recently been experimenting with newsletters, but I don’t think he’s made any firm conclusions yet. [...]

By: YWAM Information Technology

YWAM Information Technology — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:03:47 +0000

Is RSS Replacing Newsletters?

Lately I have been noticing that a lot of the e-mail newsletters that I have subscribed to are "old news" by the time they get to me. Most of the newsletters that fall into this category are the Informaiton Technology related newsletters.

By: Bill Hutchison's Journal

Bill Hutchison's Journal — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:57:40 +0000

Is RSS Replacing E-Mail Newsletters?

Lately I have been noticing that a lot of
the e-mail newsletters that I have subscribed to are “old news” by the
time they get to me. Most of the newsletters that fall into this
category are the Informaiton Techno…

By: David

David — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:30:34 +0000

Peter, tdfb, Neil,

If you’re using WordPress, I have written a plugin which will integrate it into PHPList (http://www.phplist.com)

The plugin is at http://www.funkypenguin.co.za/wp-phplist, and you can see it in action at http://www.inspirationaljournal.com

I use it successfully to manage my blog / subscriptions, and my email-to-rss ratio is also about 10:1

- David

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alane by day » Blog Archive » The Perfect Accessory — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:41:05 +0000

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: Blog Tips - ProBlogger — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:12:20 +0000

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By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:49:53 +0000

Expanding on the above, I'll put a post on my blog on Wednesday covering the US FTC regulations and the Michigan/Utah child protection laws as they relate to email and newsletters. Find it here. But it won't be up until Wednesday.

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:12:28 +0000

tdfb: Any newsletter which carries advertising or links to advertising has to meet the Federal laws in the US, plus the State laws, Recently Michigan and Utah introduced draconian legislation to protect children from advertising and just about anything else. Non-compliance can lead to custodial sentences. There are also EU-wide laws which are equally harsh but (unhelpfully) different from the US ones. It’s quite a business these days and frankly not worth the hassle unless you have a lawyer on board. Most of the newsletters I see don’t comply to Can-Spam, nor the EU stuff, and you bet your bottom dollar they haven’t been washed against the Michigan and Utah lists.

By: Peter Flaschner

Peter Flaschner — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 15:02:28 +0000

Darren – one more request for software details please! What do you use? Have you tried a couple and settled on one?

By: Martin (HomeOfficeVoice)

Martin (HomeOfficeVoice) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:55:00 +0000

I’m a big proponent of email newsletters. Quite simply, if done correctly (don’t over-saturate, shorter the better and don’t do the hard push) they work.

Have to remember that as bloggers ourselves we are pretty knowledgable on RSS and utilize them – many non-bloggers are yet to catch onto RSS and are more than happy with email newsletters.

From my point of view I have a email newsletter subscriber to rss subscriber ratio of 14 to 1 … in other words, every 140 subscribers to my email newsletter I get 1 subscriber to my rss feed.

I prefer rss but the numbers speak for themselves

By: tdfb

tdfb — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:50:42 +0000

An interesting perspective Darren. I too would like to know what software you use?

John – Are the laws you’re referencing applicable to blogs/sites/people that provide opt-in newsletters?

By: Mike Sigers

Mike Sigers — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 13:09:02 +0000

Thanks Darren.

I’ve been telling other bloggers to add a list/newsletter/tip sheet to their blogs for a while now.

We have name gathering mechanisms set up on all nine of our blogs. Not only can we update people, but when we find a must have item, it’s easy to alert our lists.

It’s also easy to use to drive readers to a “must see” post, whether it’s ours or someone elses. If it’s ours, it’s a sure way to get clicks on the ads and it seems to encourage comments.

By: Neil Camp

Neil Camp — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:22:43 +0000

I have been considering a newsletter for my sites, but I have been having a ahard time figuring out how to integrate it into my site. Darren, what software do you use for your newsletters? I am a happy subscriber to yours!

By: John (SYNTAGMA)

John (SYNTAGMA) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:44:12 +0000

With a newsletter, you have to have double opt-ins, full name and address, telphone number etc, masses of compliance with American Can-Spam laws, including washing your list against Michigan and Utah exceptions list (which they charge a lot for) …. is it worth it? I doubt that many newsletter senders know that a lot of them are outside the law and, in the case of Michigan and Utah, could face lengthy prison sentences.

With RSS, you don’t need autoresponders or compliance with complex laws. And 50% of visitors now understand it.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:15:18 +0000

I’ve have a ’subscribe’ form on my personal site, and have had a few signups which I’ve mailed a few times – interesting you posted this today as I had set a reminder to myself to post another letter, as I’ve got 2 new subscribers in the last few days.

The way my personal site tends to work is as a springboard to other sites, and my subscribe page does say ‘to get more info on what’s happening on Andy Merrett’s network of sites’ – which means I can then post interesting articles from some of my other sites, without bombarding readers who signed up at andymerrett.co.uk

This is something I want to invest more energy into. Thanks for the timely post.