Comments on: You’re Losing Subscribers, Here’s How to Get them Back

By: gjperera

gjperera — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:22:25 +0000

I read through most comments and even searched and noticed that no one mentioned the fact that feedburner allows you to export that list to a .csv file which can be opened in Excel for data manipulation. This is great for small and large websites, you can run a mailing list from that Excel file. Hope this helps. Thanks for the great tip!

By: KP

KP — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 05:00:11 +0000

My ratio is damn high about 40% unverified due to email not reaching.I am developing a tool for it and in one or two days I will release it on my blog.

By: Minerva

Minerva — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:06:12 +0000

I have been doing what you propose since August of this year. I do it regularly once a month. But my results are not so good, I would say that less than 5% of them do subscribe again, and most of them subscribe but do not verify!!! (even if it is specified in the email that they should verify the suscriptcion ad that it might be going to the Spam)

By: العاب

العاب — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:34:47 +0000

well , this is a good way for getting subscribers back . though i’ve never undergone such experience & i wish i won’t .

By: Louisa

Louisa — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:46:08 +0000

Awesome timing on this post. Was just wondering today whether it would be OK to email people who hadn’t verified their subscriptions or if it was a bit of a no-no. Just sent the email off then! Thanks!!

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:58:32 +0000

Glen,

Glad to hear you like BLVD Status we are hard at work to make it a viable solution for bloggers. One other feature that I love that has to do with RSS is you can set up your RSS feed url as a conversion point and track conversions to your RSS so you can see how many people came from stumble that day and actually subscribed compared to other referring domains.

Great post

By: Takumi86

Takumi86 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:13:20 +0000

Alright thanks for the advice, i never open my feedburner so i never thought they could be this matter, thanks for letting me know about this

By: Laura Bergells

Laura Bergells — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:59:31 +0000

Almost all of my 1500+ unverifieds — over 4 years of addresses — are yahoo, hotmail, gmail — i.e., probable bogies!

Question:

How far do you go back? And who do you eliminate from your requests?

By: Mario

Mario — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:37:10 +0000

Thank you for this great post. I am glad to read it before I needed it :-)
I just started my blog, so I hadn’t the ‘chance’ of losing subscribers yet. Thanks to your post I know how to prevent it in the future.

By: Indie Fan

Indie Fan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:54:55 +0000

Not a bad play, but I tend to believe that if they don’t confirm, they may not be a targeted reader in the first place.

By: Leon

Leon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:11:21 +0000

Wow. Thanks! I needed that. I’ve lost about half of my subscribers. Now I love Feedburner even more!

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:35:08 +0000

hanks for the tip! I’ll be sending an email out today!

By: Steven-Sanders

Steven-Sanders — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:58:20 +0000

Great information. I’ll be sure to keep a check on that specific part of feedburner now.

By: Ariane Benefit

Ariane Benefit — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:34:31 +0000

Thanks for the great tips! I will definitely be checking my stats on that. : )

By: Vinayak

Vinayak — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:39:43 +0000

Glen Allsopp,
It’s a great tip! I did try it after Darren did a similar post on this subject sometime ago.
But…
I would like to point out:
In case of reclaiming Unverified Feedburner Email Subscribers…the process of getting back those subscribers is actually quite tedious because same Email id can’t be fed twice into that form. An unverified users has to be first removed manually from the subscriber list before he/she can again send in the subscription request. So there’s a lot of coordination and effort required both from the Blog owner and more importantly from the Subscriber. And that often be asking for too much.
Feedburner is still the best of its kind service but I think they should come up with a solution for this.

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:53:31 +0000

@the Blogoholic – I guess it depends on your audience and how you come across. The personal development niche is known to have a caring and happy audience so maybe that is why I had quite a lot of success

@all – thanks for the kind words, and thanks to Darren for giving me the opportunity

By: James

James — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:31:35 +0000

Thank you SO much, this is very helpful! I never really understood what the unverified status acctually meant (I am clearly blonde).

Thanks again for this insight….fantastic article.

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:20:54 +0000

@Lorna - Remember to keep them in future ;) @Debo Hobo - That's just normal feedburner fluctuations @Jesper - Great observations, thanks for sharing the added benefits @Wayne John - Darren covered that over here

By: Lorna

Lorna — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:11:44 +0000

I wish this has been posted sooner. I was thinking about what to do with my unverified subscriber, so instead of sending them a reminder, I deleted their e-mails from my feed :(

By: Debo Hobo

Debo Hobo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:12:42 +0000

That’s interesting because the other day I was down by about 30 subscriber,-(yes, I know it is sad when that small amount is immediately noticed) huff, but the next day they were back.

I think that was caused by a system glitch though.