Written on March 21st, 2009 at 12:03 am by Darren Rowse

4 Pretty Pictures to Illustrate Impact of Email Newsletters on Traffic (and Social Bookmarking)

Blog Promotion, Social Media 47 comments

Today I was reading a post on CopyBlogger by Dean Rieck on the importance of using email to grow a blog and it struck me how many bloggers still don’t fully understand the power of email as a way to grow their blogs.
I’m not going to rehash all of the reasons why email marketing is [...]

Written on December 4th, 2008 at 12:12 am by Darren Rowse

How 24 Hours of Work Will Send Millions of Readers to My Blog

Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools and Services 66 comments

I have written numerous times about how I use weekly email newsletters to drive significant traffic to my photography site (here’s why newsletters are good and here’s how to use newsletters).
However lately I have started using a second type of newsletter that in time has the potential to send even more traffic. In fact initial [...]

Written on October 28th, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How To Build a Successful Email Newsletter

Blog Promotion, Blogging Tools and Services, Featured Posts, Writing Content 53 comments

Over the last week I’ve been talking about Newsletters a little. We’ve covered reasons start a newsletter and how I’ve increased my newsletter subscriber numbers 10 fold.
Today I want to finish this informal mini-series on newsletters off with some tips for actually writing a newsletter.

How to Write an Email Newsletter
Let me say up front [...]

Written on October 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse

How to Drastically Increase Subscriber Numbers to Your Email Newsletter

Blog Promotion, Featured Posts 129 comments

Two weeks ago I was seeing 40 new email subscribers per day to my photography blog email newsletter. This week I’ve been averaging over 350 new subscribers a day. In this post I’ll share the story of how I did it.

In this months ProBlogger Newsletter I gave subscribers some inside information on how I’ve increased [...]

Written on October 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

Aweber to Add Twitter Updates Feature

Blogging Tools and Services 22 comments

I just found out that later this week Aweber (the newsletter delivery service that I use) is adding a new feature that will allow their publishers to automatically send an update to their Twitter account when they send a new broadcast/newsletter. The tweet will link to an online version of the newsletter so that your [...]