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Hi guys,

I see that a ton of you have under your comments, to sign up for your newsletter check off. How good are they? Do you get a lot of sign ups with that method?

Thanks Robert, 

Do you have 2 totally different newsletters? When do you have the time :)

I'm new to the forum and Yakezie, but I actually know a lot about autoresponders because I use them on the other websites I run. I use Aweber, and they're great. There's other services too, like Mailchimp and Constant Contact, etc… Having a newsletter is one of the best things you can do for your blog. Jump on any marketing forum and that's all they talk about. It's great for your blog if you want to diversify the ways you're making money from it.

I haven't put one on my new blog yet, but I fully intend to do so in this coming week. Like mentioned above, giving out a freebie for opting in is a great way to get more subscribers. I could go on for days about this LOL. I think maybe I'll write a blog post on it.

Anyway, if you don't want to shell out for an autoresponder service until you see more traffic (most services charge monthly fees), I think you can search WP plugins or look for a simple script online for a form that will collect email addresses for you, then you can organize them into a spreadsheet and send out your newsletter manually until you get too many subscribers to handle.

Post edited 10:36 pm – March 19, 2012 by nellterry

You have 900 contacts already. Your sites are ranking in the 100,000's. Wow. You need automated opt-in forms on your sites like pronto. Do an incentive like a special report or an eBook. Add the names you collect to your list of past clients and load all your contacts into your autoresponder. Make sure you have double opt-in set up so your clients can choose whether to get emails from you and you stay in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act. Get Aweber or another autoresponder service bc there's no way you'll be able to manage that many names without an autoresponder.

I've been on the marketing boards for the better part of a year now, and I've spent hundreds of hours reading there and working on my sites, man you have no idea! And I've learned that if you're trying to create a business from your sites, that's the first step you need to take: building your list. Once you have it organized, you can send emails to everyone on it all at once – it doesn't have to be newsletters bc sometimes ppl get board with long formats like that, so it could negatively impact your open rate. You want to build a personal relationship with your list, so short, two or three sentence emails seem to be working best for many marketers – worded from "me" to "you," with offers, contests, and other things sprinkled in once in awhile, but not until you've built the relationship.

I have way too much to say about this seriously, I think I really have decided to write a blog post about this tomorrow. LOL. It's just ironic bc I've talked to a few other people about this very thing this week. If you have any other questions, though, I'll be happy to help. Man I don't have a CLUE about blogging stuff and I've been tearing up this board asking for help, lol, but marketing – marketing I know. Best of luck.