Thanks for great article.

I can not see importing subscriber feature in Zookoda.

Can you please guide me.

Thanks !

Attiq Shaw

Please help.

Shishir
http://www.salahsoftware.com

There’s a lot of people on the feedburner forum asking for flexible scheduling of emails.

Please support the effort and get FeedBurner to do it at

http://forums.feedburner.com/viewtopic.php?t=15226

While we wait: one of the FeedBurner support people said that you should consider a solution where your feed is *burned* once a week and submitted to feedburner. This sounds/feel great but where do you find a tool that burns your feed once a week?

While I am waiting for you to get feedburner to do what we want ;-)
I tried out Zookoda but I need degree to figure them out.
I suppose if I try for anther day it may snap in place.

Johan

With Feedburner being bought out I am wondering if perhaps they are going to gobble up FeedBlitz too.

Anyway…I have been losing a lot of subscribers to the “one a day” e-mail.

Darren, do you have a post that speaks on this topic in detail? I saw that you recommend an e-mail every three days. I am going to try that out, but it would be nice to hear of others comments on this topic.

Given their dominance in the RSS publishing space it would be so easy for them to also dominate the RSS2Email space. They already have direct access to a massive chunk of the market – all they need to do now is put a bit more effort into product features, and of course work out a safe way for publishers to import their subscriber lists from other services.

True, it would be nice to have them all imported through the interface, but at least it’s a possibility. I was able to successfuly import over 700 addresses.

And you can’t beat FREE! I looked into aweber.com (review to come) and 1shoppingcart.com, and both were $20 per month.

The email delivery times works well for me and my subscribers.

I then tested the service on my blog and found that the captcha on the pop-up window wasn’t working properly. It happened on numerous occasions that I tried. It wasn’t that the image wasn’t loading, it was that I would put in the correct characters and it would say it was incorrect! I emailed a couple of the wanabee converts and they confirmed the same thing.

So bam went Feedburner and in came Feedblitz. I would love to use Feedburner, but I can’t use something that doesn’t work very well. ;-)

However, we were using Feedblitz for all of our clients for the email sign ups. And there were problems. LOTS of problems over the last 3 months. We post items at 5 or 6 in the evening, and clients would not get notified until a couple days later that there was a new entry at the blog.

We were advised that they batch their emails; that you’re placed on their schedule. It’s fine if it’s a time that suits, but Missing Link is meant to be a timely summary of the best posts in ozplogistan. Not as good if it comes late the following day. Faster delivery is a paid service.

Interestingly, FeedBlitz also turns your posts into uu encoding or similar. No raw HTML tags to look at, which struck me as odd and unnecessary.

However cat2email seemed to stop working circa WP 2.1 and its author went to work on Habari instead. This plus ongoing VPS dramas means we’re without a mailing list service. Ideally with the mail-oriented changes in WP 2.2 somebody would whip up a simple mailing list system of this sort; so far no dice. I’d be interested to hear if anyone has.

FeedBurner is a good solution for anyone who doesn’t have a current subscriber list to import and wants to get something setup quickly.

— i agree! should have made that change in the beginning. I lost all of my subscribers. =/

It evidently took a tremendous effort on 1shoppingcart’s part to get their status un-blacklisted, and now their standards are as high as everyone else’s.

I hate to say it, but it would probably be a good idea to let go of that wish. And, it’s actually a good thing. When you migrate a list like that, people who don’t verify, even after you nudge them a couple of times, gives you a more realistic view of who actually wants to be subscribed, as opposed to folks who just haven’t unsubbed yet.