Comments on: Promote Your Blog: Use Email Subscription

By: Catherine Holt

Catherine Holt — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 11:00:17 +0000

That sounds like a great plan Bhavesh

By: Bhavesh Patel

Bhavesh Patel — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 09:56:34 +0000

Thanks Catherine.. I know we can’t turn clock back but I guess from now I focus more on list building too.

By: Catherine Holt

Catherine Holt — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 07:25:29 +0000

Ha ha Bhavesh. “Idiot” may be a strong word, but maybe you wern’t using the best approach! The important thing however is that you have recognised the value of a list and you are going to rectify it!! You can’t turn back the clock, but you can make improvements from this point. Good luck with your list building

By: Bhavesh Patel

Bhavesh Patel — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 05:39:34 +0000

After reading this post honestly I am idiot. I am blogger and not create a mail list. But from now I work on it and correct my mistake what I have done.

Thanks Catherine for guide me on create mail list.

By: Catherine Holt

Catherine Holt — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 05:01:20 +0000

Do you have something on offer Dana that is encouraging your readers to “activate” it in their inbox? If they are subscribing to receive something, it means they WANT IT.

You will find that readers will therefore complete the process because otherwise they are missing out on that ‘thing’ they want to receive. If they are subscribing purely for ‘updates’, it may not be something that is an urgency for them, and then hence don’t immediately go to confirm their subscription…which may then just get forgotten about. Just a thought!

Absolutely use your questions you have gained via social media to promote your blog. Questions and comments are a great way to give ideas and new content, so use that to your advantage

By: Dana@chocolateandsunshine

Dana@chocolateandsunshine — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:50:35 +0000

Thanks for a great post!! I have e-mail subscription but find that many don’t activate it in their e-mail inboxes. Also, is it okay to start an e-mail list for promotion of the blog, via the e-mails I’ve collected from Comments, Twitter Followers and other social media accounts? My social media accounts are growing quicker than my subscription followers. I’m similar in that I prefer to limit what is going into my In-Box.

Any suggestions would be appreciated!!

By: Catherine Holt

Catherine Holt — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:38:43 +0000

I guess we can’t turn back the clock Marc, but we can make sure that we do things right from this point on. Live and learn so they say!!

Email lists are definitely a way to engage with your readers so the sooner you start to build one the better

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 11:57:38 +0000

Building an email list is definitely one of the most important things you can do for the long-term health of your blog. When I started blogging about 6-7 years ago RSS was becoming really popular and everyone was saying how it was better than email because you don’t have to deal with spam filters. Now everyone has gone back to recommending email lists because the subscribers are so much more responsive than RSS subscribers. I wish I had started building email lists a few years earlier than I did.

By: Catherine Holt

Catherine Holt — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 06:29:42 +0000

Thanks Arun. You are right, an email list is incredibly important when looking at increasing sales and the more you build it, the more benefit you will see.

I agree that having something to give away when readers subscribe is a nice incentive. Plus it’s nice to let you subscribers know that you appreciate them

By: Arun Kallarackal

Arun Kallarackal — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:58:49 +0000

Hi Catherine,

Agreed that building an e mail list is very important to promote a blog. Not only blog promotion, a good e mail list is also beneficial for affiliate marketers to increase sales.

As you said, each page on the blog should give people the opportunity to subscribe. Offering some free goodies upon subscribing is also a good strategy!

Nice post, thanks for sharing!

Arun