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Post edited 2:33 pm – August 10, 2011 by P2PNoob

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

Hi everybody!  I am so excited because I will finally be offering a weekly newsletter!!!

It will have normal newsletter stuff PLUS a link to an exclusive giveaway that I will hold every month for newsletter subscribers!!!  It'll be like FMF's giveaways, just a simple comment to enter.  The only difference is that I will be hooking you up with Amazon gift cards instead of cash from Smarty Pig, lol.

The rest of the letter will have a little personal section about me, a few highlights of my posts around the web, and even a little section at the bottom highlighting a product that I personally use and/or enjoy.

The trick is that the first newsletter will go out only after I get 50 subscribers and I am only at 29 right now (thank you to the 29 early birds!!!).  Please help me reach the big 5-0 asap!

Here's the link to my newsletter post – http://www.budgetinginthefunst…..ewsletter/

Thank you!!!  And thank you to Jesse Michelsen for being for hire!!!

Hey! I tried signing up, but it appears the subscribe button isn't active? Someone please double-check me on this

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Edit: Nevermind! It turns out that it worked all along and I had in fact submitted my info ~6 times. Sorry for the spam.

I was a bit confused because the Mailchimp form didn't look like it refreshed

Hi Crystal,

I signed up for the newsletter, but I think I was having the same problem that P2PNoob was having. I was working in Safari and when I hit the "subscribe" button, nothing happened. I hit it again, nothing happened. I opened my email and I had several confirmation emails. :)

Kyle

Awesome Crystal! Heading over to sign up now!

My Personal Finance Journey said:

In Chrome, when I hit the subscribe button, nothing happened either. It didn't work in Firefox either.

It worked – it just doesn't act like it worked.  Jesse is looking into it.  In the meantime, if you hit the button and give it a couple of seconds, you will probably get the confirmation email.  I do apologize that all of the bugs aren't worked out yet.  But thanks for wanting to sign up and helping me figure out the issues!!!

Suba @ Wealth Informatics said:

I have an opposite problem. I subscribed yesterday morning. I still have not received anything. I didn't receive any email this morning, but I thought I will wait for a week to check may be you will send a weekly letter before bothering you though. Also I signed up from office yesterday, I will be back home tonight (I was in a different city and travel 3 days a week so couldn't try it last night), I will sign up again from home to make sure it is not a firewall thing before you do anything for my problem. 

Huh, that is a new one.  Yes, please let me know what happens on a regular comp, thanks!  Have a great trip!

Thank you!

Yep, that was it. Things were working, it just didn't look like it worked. So, I am now subscribed via two email addresses!

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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

My Personal Finance Journey said:

In Chrome, when I hit the subscribe button, nothing happened either. It didn't work in Firefox either.

It worked – it just doesn't act like it worked.  Jesse is looking into it.  In the meantime, if you hit the button and give it a couple of seconds, you will probably get the confirmation email.  I do apologize that all of the bugs aren't worked out yet.  But thanks for wanting to sign up and helping me figure out the issues!!!

I also subscribed about 4 times! I'm using Firefox and maybe the subscribe button doesn't like that browser.

moneybeagle said:

Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:

add one of those annoying newsletter pop ups, which I refuse to do.  I cannot stand those things. 

Thank you!  I unsubscribe a blog from my RSS feed when a full feed isn't published as it's my biggest pet peeve. This newsletter-pop-up practice is quickly moving its way up my annoyance list, so I'm glad to hear you won't be partaking in that practice!

 

I hate the popups because they completely kill navigation on my blackberry.  Email lightboxes=no traffic from me.

As for the butchered feed, I use this if it's a site I really want to follow: http://fulltextrssfeed.com/.  There's no site out there that I'm going to be forced to click through to read.