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10:15 am
June 29, 2011
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Melissa (Mom's Plans)
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I was just contacting a company about a giveaway, and I looked at an e-mail I sent them a year ago when they sponsored a giveaway.
On 6/14/10, I had 70 feed readers. Now, on 6/29/11, I have 1602. What a difference a year makes!
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10:35 am
June 29, 2011
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The Family CEO
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Congratulations, Melissa! That's impressive! What suggestions do you have for those of us trying to grow our number of subscribers?
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11:29 am
June 29, 2011
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12:01 pm
June 29, 2011
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That is very impressive! Congrats Melissa!
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12:07 pm
June 29, 2011
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Suba @ Wealth Informatics
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That's an impressive increase in the amount of subscribers, Melissa! Big Congrats!!!
What is your secret?
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12:47 pm
June 29, 2011
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Melissa (Mom's Plans)
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I don't have any secrets, but there are three things that helped me. In the beginning, I offered a giveaway or two a week. I just contacted companies to see if they were interested in a review and giveaway. Even at my small size, many were. I advertised each giveaway as much as possible.
Facebook has also helped.
I also comment and submit to carnivals and memes. That is it.
And, since October, Yakezie has helped too. :)
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1:03 pm
June 29, 2011
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Fantastic work, Melissa. I think the giveaways can really help in that regard. When I had my big giveaway last November, my subscriber base increased. Not to your levels though:)
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1:48 pm
June 29, 2011
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Derek@LifeAndMyFinances
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That's awesome Melissa! I have a goal to raise my subscriber numbers fo 1,154 by April. It's good to know that it's entirely possible! 
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1:51 pm
June 29, 2011
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Super Frugalette
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Melissa said:
I was just contacting a company about a giveaway, and I looked at an e-mail I sent them a year ago when they sponsored a giveaway.
On 6/14/10, I had 70 feed readers. Now, on 6/29/11, I have 1602. What a difference a year makes!
That is so exciting!
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4:13 pm
June 29, 2011
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4:23 pm
June 29, 2011
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Congrats! People like me can only dream about these numbers..
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4:27 pm
June 29, 2011
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Wow, that's awesome, good work. I've got to get more proactive and start contacting some companies directly about giveaways. Do you usually try to contact a company's online marketing department or do you just send a general inquiry to their contact email?…if you don't mind sharing your approach.
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4:31 pm
June 29, 2011
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MaximizingMoney
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LifeAndMyFinances said:
That's awesome Melissa! I have a goal to raise my subscriber numbers fo 1,154 by April. It's good to know that it's entirely possible!
Well, I just got you 1 closer to your goal. At first, I was thinking it was an odd number for a goal, but then realized you're looking for a 1000 increase.
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4:59 pm
June 29, 2011
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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congrats – longevity pays off!
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5:06 pm
June 29, 2011
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Melissa (Mom's Plans)
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MaximizingMoney said:
Wow, that's awesome, good work. I've got to get more proactive and start contacting some companies directly about giveaways. Do you usually try to contact a company's online marketing department or do you just send a general inquiry to their contact email?…if you don't mind sharing your approach.
I usually just contact them with a general inquiry. Most that I contacted didn't openly have a marketing department. I also paid attention to what other bloggers were giving away; if it was something good, I tried to contact that company too.
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5:30 pm
June 29, 2011
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Wow! Congrats! It is crazy to think what I was doing a year ago and how life has changed now.
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5:41 pm
June 29, 2011
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8:02 pm
June 29, 2011
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8:06 pm
June 29, 2011
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Wow, that is quite impressive… I think you're kicking my ass for sure. ;) Congrats!
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10:42 am
June 30, 2011
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Melissa, can you provide a little more background on how this worked for you?
I have been flatlining at a paltry 170-180 subscribers for awhile. I now have the budget to start doing some giveaways. Maybe a dumb question, but how do you provide incentive to subscribe in the form of a giveaway? The only way I've been able to figure that this would work is that they would have to sign up as an e-mail subscriber because RSS subscribers aren't seen with their e-mail addresses or other ways that I could include them in a giveaway. Oh and congrats, by the way :)
Thanks!
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