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Do you mean newsletter subscribers?  I try to send out a little personal info to my newsletter subscribers every week without bombarding them with the same old link lists they are used to.  I think it helps build our relationship.  I highly suggest using your subscriber list for some nice extras – I do think that is more enjoyable overall.

Actually, Van Beek, that's exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks for commenting. That sounds like a good use of your subscriber list.

Yes, I'm sorry, Crystal, I did mean the newsletter subscribers, not feedburner subscribers or anything like that.

Finance Yoga said:

Interesting, I have never really thought of having a newsletter. How does that work exactly? Do they subscribe to your blog and get the newsletter as an extra?

I use an Aweber form. People sign up specifically for the email newsletter. It is separate from subscribing to the blog RSS. But you can use the email provider like Aweber to send your blog posts to the newsletter subscribers by email.

I am getting ready to start a newsletter. Thank you Vanbeek.  That is awesome information. 

shortroadto said:

Vanbeek, I really like the page that you set up to subscribe to the Gold member services.  Are you seeing success in getting visitors to subscribe to the Gold member services?  Also, did you always have the $1 to try offer, or is that something that you developed a while after setting up the service?

Yes, visitors are subscribing to my paid Gold Member service. This is a membership where the subscriber pays monthly. The aim is not to get someone for just a few months. The idea is that subscribers stay for years. Some do. Some don't. I introduced the $1 trial 6 months after I started the service. Even though I had a 100% money guarantee for 60-days before, I wanted to take any suspicion away that this was some kind of scam. Now new subscribers can see exactly what they get during 60-days for $1. 

Note, that there are 2 different things here. On one hand there is the free email newsletter that people sign up for via the Aweber form. On the other hand there is the paid membership service where subscribers get access to a restricted part of the website with unique investing information.

Since I am always looking for feedback, please send me a message if you see anything that would withhold you from trying the service.

Van Beek, I would try almost anything for $1.  I like the layout and the bold type on key points.  The only thing that could be improved is the grammar on the signup page.  One example is:

By following the “buy” and “sell” signals from this system, you can make considerable more money with your long-term investments in the stock market than with just a buy-and-hold strategy of funds.

This should read considerably more money.

Another example is

To avoid that you have to spend a lot of time on analyzing the financial numbers of many different companies to try to pick the winners, you may prefer like most of our users to invest in low-cost mutual funds or index funds instead.

This should read, To avoid spending a lot of time. 

I noticed a few mistakes in the first few paragraphs.  This may be a turn off to some investors. 

We use MailChimp for our newsletter / subscriber campaigns… It has given us the ability to first off customize the content that we are putting out to our readers… We mail twice a week, with that weeks news and blog posts.

Another advantage is that we can segregate our lists/subscribers bases on many levels of demographics, location, personal choices, etc….

It has allowed us to provide a much more indepth and robust experience for the reader, verse just sending out a notice to the subscriber that a "new post" has been added…

You can integrate Mailchimp with a WIDE variety of shopping carts… http://connect.mailchimp.com/category/ecommerce

From there you would just customize your cart for newsletter…

Within most shopping carts you can choose your payment processor…

It looks like Mailchimp will allow you to export users from Paypal to a list… http://blog.mailchimp.com/payp…..mailchimp/

Maybe I'm missing something and I dont want to sound cynical.  Why would a subscriber pay to get a newsletter? I know the benefits for the site owner.  I'm interested to know what are the advantages and benefits to the subscriber, just asking.

I see your point and thats why I asked, everyone has different uses for providing a newsletter.  Which is why I asked what would be the benefit.

Will you be creating your own investment newsletters or using private label version, which you can use your own branding?

Also have you use this method before or will this be your first time with the paid version?