Comments on: Offer Your Readers an Email Subscription http://blogtipz.com/2008/11/26/offer-your-readers-an-email-subscription/ The best tips to help promote and grow your blog. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:32:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Kevin http://blogtipz.com/2008/11/26/offer-your-readers-an-email-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-7596 Kevin Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:11:17 +0000 http://blogtipz.com/?p=2186#comment-7596 @Rarst - I guess the post was more intended for people who run a business and want an alternative method to connect with their customers and clients. The biggest advantage would be in offering an alternative subscription, in which you present upcoming news or announcements, and I can see where this would aggravate people (who already deal with a lot of spam). @Rarst – I guess the post was more intended for people who run a business and want an alternative method to connect with their customers and clients. The biggest advantage would be in offering an alternative subscription, in which you present upcoming news or announcements, and I can see where this would aggravate people (who already deal with a lot of spam).

]]> By: Kevin http://blogtipz.com/2008/11/26/offer-your-readers-an-email-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-66694 Kevin Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:11:00 +0000 http://blogtipz.com/?p=2186#comment-66694 @Rarst - I guess the post was more intended for people who run a business and want an alternative method to connect with their customers and clients. The biggest advantage would be in offering an alternative subscription, in which you present upcoming news or announcements, and I can see where this would aggravate people (who already deal with a lot of spam). @Rarst – I guess the post was more intended for people who run a business and want an alternative method to connect with their customers and clients. The biggest advantage would be in offering an alternative subscription, in which you present upcoming news or announcements, and I can see where this would aggravate people (who already deal with a lot of spam).

]]> By: Rarst http://blogtipz.com/2008/11/26/offer-your-readers-an-email-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-7395 Rarst Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:38:29 +0000 http://blogtipz.com/?p=2186#comment-7395 Depends on niche. I barely got 1-2 email subscribers, my readership totally prefers RSS (normal for tech blog I think). I don't agree on branding advantage, RSS feed can be easily (under WordPress with plugins at least) customized to include any additional details needed. >connect with people who may have unsubscribed from your feed Bad idea. Trying to contact person who "voted with legs" by unsubscribing is recipe to really alienate people. DailyBlogTips had post about newsletter recently and Daniel wrote that he tried that in the past and hadn't received a single reply ever. Depends on niche. I barely got 1-2 email subscribers, my readership totally prefers RSS (normal for tech blog I think).

I don’t agree on branding advantage, RSS feed can be easily (under WordPress with plugins at least) customized to include any additional details needed.

>connect with people who may have unsubscribed from your feed

Bad idea. Trying to contact person who “voted with legs” by unsubscribing is recipe to really alienate people. DailyBlogTips had post about newsletter recently and Daniel wrote that he tried that in the past and hadn’t received a single reply ever.

]]> By: Rarst http://blogtipz.com/2008/11/26/offer-your-readers-an-email-subscription/comment-page-1/#comment-66693 Rarst Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:38:00 +0000 http://blogtipz.com/?p=2186#comment-66693 Depends on niche. I barely got 1-2 email subscribers, my readership totally prefers RSS (normal for tech blog I think). I don't agree on branding advantage, RSS feed can be easily (under WordPress with plugins at least) customized to include any additional details needed. >connect with people who may have unsubscribed from your feed Bad idea. Trying to contact person who "voted with legs" by unsubscribing is recipe to really alienate people. DailyBlogTips had post about newsletter recently and Daniel wrote that he tried that in the past and hadn't received a single reply ever. Depends on niche. I barely got 1-2 email subscribers, my readership totally prefers RSS (normal for tech blog I think).

I don’t agree on branding advantage, RSS feed can be easily (under WordPress with plugins at least) customized to include any additional details needed.

>connect with people who may have unsubscribed from your feed

Bad idea. Trying to contact person who “voted with legs” by unsubscribing is recipe to really alienate people. DailyBlogTips had post about newsletter recently and Daniel wrote that he tried that in the past and hadn’t received a single reply ever.

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