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How to Make Email Newsletters Better

Idaconcpts

This is the screenshot of my email newsletters signup form at my blog. Today I wanted to share what I have learned on how to make email newsletters better. Use a RSS-to-Email Service. Using a RSS-to-Email service makes 2 things happen: 1. Using an email newsletters service allows you to use templates that have been crossed-tested on several browsers. MarketingProfs gives some great tips for e-newsletter success.

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Email or RSS: Which Do You Prefer

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Email or RSS: Which Do You Prefer Written on January 13, 2010 by Justin Levy in email , hubspot , rss , social media 40 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. In doing educational seminars and speaking to a variety of different groups, I usually have to describe what RSS actually is.

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7 Best Newsletter Builders for Creating Great Newsletters

Writtent Blog

To effectively harness the power of email, you need a strong newsletter builder to create campaigns, manage contacts, and analyze results. Here are 7 of the best newsletter builders to help you create email campaigns that get results. This newsletter builder offers an indefinite free trial period based on your number of contacts and emails per month, and its pay scale for additional contacts and emails starts at just $10 per month. RSS-to-email and blog digest capability.

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How Often Should You Email Your Newsletter List?

ProBlogger

The post How Often Should You Email Your Newsletter List? In the past we’ve taken a look at why your blog needs an email newsletter and what you should include in your email newsletter. But people have been asking for more detail on how often you should send emails to your newsletter subscribers. So we’re adding this post to round out our series on Newsletters. 1: “I Struggle to Come Up With Enough Content for My Newsletters”. Re-run old newsletters.

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6 Reasons Why Your Blog Needs an Email Newsletter

ProBlogger

Maybe you put ‘set up email newsletter’ on your ‘someday’ list ages ago, but still haven’t done it. Or maybe you have a newsletter list, but you haven’t sent one in months. Does it Have to be a ‘Newsletter’? In the blogging world, you’ll hear people talking about “email lists” and “email newsletters” as if they’re synonymous. Some bloggers send out their newsletter once a month. Do you email your blog readers regularly?

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How I Bumped My RSS Conversion Rate from 16% To 25%

ProBlogger

Want to find out how to boost RSS subscriber conversion? I’d been meaning to test my RSS subscription page for a while, and finally got around to it. Here’s what the old page looked like: The newsletter top. The newsletter bottom. The RSS subscription page was way too busy! What that means is that I don’t know the difference these changes made on conversions for people clicking on the RSS button.

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How To Replace Google Reader

Small Business Mavericks

Set up e-mail subscription – Few people within the general public ever figured out RSS enough to use an RSS reader, but everyone understands e-mail. Publish a blog promotion newsletter – While everyone understands e-mail, not everyone will subscribe to your blog posts by e-mail. However, many people will subscribe to your newsletter because they already understand that concept of a newsletter.

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Social Media Informer

Sherrilynne Starkie

Related posts: RSS is easy to use. More than three-quarters of RSS users are male. Click here to start to receive my newsletter. Featured Headline Social Media Alltop Facebook public relations RSS TwitterSocial Media Informer is a website that collates social media blog posts to create an online where people can get all the latest news, information and opinion.

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Adding More Value Around Here

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Adding More Value Around Here Written on December 7, 2009 by Justin Levy in announcements , communications , connectiondrive 14 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. As a way of trying to add more value for you and giving us another way to connect on a regular basis, I have decided to launch a monthly newsletter.

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New Ways Of Working

Twist Image

Prior to that (in and around my teenage years), I was always fascinated with journalism, newsletters, writing, media and marketing those messages. On top of that, those who were interested could subscribe to my writing (via RSS ) and be notified the second I published anything online? newsletters. As much as we embrace change, we are all creatures of habit. Back in 1988, I became interested in actually publishing magazines.

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A Visual to Illustrate Why I Use Newsletters to Promote My Posts

ProBlogger

This is a graphic that I shared on Twitter late last week that illustrates, in part, why I use email newsletters on my photography blog. The graphic was taken 12 hours after I sent my weekly newsletter and shows the traffic (visitor numbers) to a single post. The initial spike in traffic occurred when the post went live (that traffic was generated largely by RSS, Twitter, and Facebook). The second spike was almost completely achieved through the newsletter.

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What Are You Going To Do About Google Reader?

Small Business Mavericks

What that means is, if you had subscribers to your blog who were using Google Reader, then they either have to find another RSS news aggregrator in order to subscribe to your blog or you just lost a subscriber. Even today, there are still people who don’t know what an RSS reader is, but everyone knows what e-mail is and uses it. Blogging for Small Business blog marketing e-mail google google reader RSS In case you haven’t heard, Google killed Google Reader.

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4 Essential Ways To Spy On The Competition

Small Business Mavericks

Here are 4 ways you can spy on the competition surreptitiously without spending any money: Subscribe to newsletters – Your competitors, at least some of them, likely have an e-mail newsletter. Subscribe to all competitor newsletters through that e-mail address, and read every issue. The best way to do that is to subscribe to their RSS feeds, or you can subscribe by e-mail. Market Research blogs competition competitive research forums Google Alerts newsletters

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Getting Overwhelmed? Get Organized!

Kikolani

RSS Folders. Other RSS Cleanup Methods. Email filters should be applied from the moment you start receiving something new, whether it is a newsletter or alerts from your bank. Give newsletter subscriptions their own label (especially the ones you know you probably aren’t interested in aside from getting the free ebook or other freebie that enticed you into signing up in the first place). Twitterfeed, HootSuite RSS Feeds, and Blog Posting Schedules.

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Where Content Goes To Die

Twist Image

Long before RSS feeds, Twitter , Facebook and more, I was a heavy subscriber to email e-newsletters (in fact, I still am). " This way, I could shuttle those many e-newsletter over to that folder and get to them when there was a moment to read. That folder is where e-newsletters went to die. Now, I take the time to go through each newsletter - as they come in - and bookmark the key articles. Who amongst us is able to consume all of the content that we save?

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End Of Blogs

Twist Image

I subscribe to many e-newsletters (like Mashable , MediaPost and more) that provide me with a quick glance into what's going on. It was great for me, maybe great for you and a bunch of journalists and media folks , but the general public never latched on the the magic that is RSS. RSS was the next generation of newsfeed, and it was a key driver in making blogging popular and accessible. For my dollar, blogging isn't about RSS, newsreaders or any of that stuff.

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The Infovore

Twist Image

Whenever I add another RSS feed to Google Reader or follow someone interesting on Twitter , I stop to realize that it's another bite in my voracious appetite for more and more information. You will never be able to read every e-newsletter, Blog post, tweet or listen/watch every Podcast or interesting YouTube video. Human beings have an unquenchable thirst for information. not just knowledge. Why are we like this?

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FeedBurner vs. Aweber: Do You Really Need an Autoresponder for Your Blog?

ProBlogger

FeedBurner uses Feed-based technology (RSS and Atom) to send updates to your blog subscribers. For more information on feeds, see Darren’s post, What is RSS? With auto-responders, however, you have to manually setup the messages and sequence them (but you can now set up a blog broadcast in Aweber, which creates an automatic email newsletter). Blogging Tools and Services RSSThis guest post is by Aman Basanti of Ageofmarketing.com.

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Your Personal Brand is an Opportunity for Freedom

Bare Feet Studios

Here is a little blurb I wrote for their newsletter as supporting inspiration. Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed.

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Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts in Your Inbox THIS WEEK

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

In 2011, the best content will be sent to those who sign up to my newsletter. The first official newsletter for January posts will go out this week and has over 30 high quality links, so be sure to get in before time runs out. Once the newsletter is sent, you will not be able to access older emails. [ Buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , a primer to social media marketing, and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed.

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10 Ways to Hit the Reset Button on Your Productivity

Justin Levy

RSS - After you consume the latest articles in your RSS reader, mark all other articles as read. This will give you a clean RSS reader and will alleviate the feeling that you’re missing out on something. Now that we’ve wound down the previous year and are getting back up to full speed, this presents the perfect opportunity to hit the reset button on your systems and processes, helping you to increase your productivity.

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4 Critical Mistakes that Cost me 1000?s of Subscribers, Fans and Followers

Kikolani

A Focus on RSS Numbers. The number of people who subscribe to your blog via RSS is one of the most meaningless metrics because it’s not an accurate representation of who is really reading your blog. I’ve found blogs with 1,000′s of RSS subscribers and virtual no comments. One simple way to improve your list is to repurpose your archives for use in your newsletter (credit to Nathalie Lussier ). Related Posts How to Keep Your RSS Subscribers.

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How to Increase Your Email List Subscriptions

ProBlogger

When I started Digital Photography School back in 2007, RSS was being hailed as the Next Big Thing. Unfortunately, RSS feeds weren’t the easiest things to subscribe to or keep up to date with. Sure, RSS may not have taken off like it was supposed to.

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10 Ways to Hit the Reset Button on Your Productivity

Justin Levy

RSS - After you consume the latest articles in your RSS reader, mark all other articles as read. This will give you a clean RSS reader and will alleviate the feeling that you’re missing out on something. Now that we’ve wound down the previous year and are getting back up to full speed, this presents the perfect opportunity to hit the reset button on your systems and processes, helping you to increase your productivity.

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Social Media Online Courses and Training

Laurel Papworth

Create bitmarks & extensions for RSS, Do Share and Recipes for If This Then That. Please join the email list if you would like early access… Subscribe to Laurel’s Newsletter. Shares My online courses are on Udemy – please scroll down to “teaching” – to join the 3000+ social media students undertaking my courses! How to Automate, Autoschedule and AutoFollow on Social Media : .

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Inside Larry & Sergey's Brain [Book Review]

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain [Book Review] Written on June 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in books , google , reviews , video 0 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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Should Browsers Display Only Canonical URLs to Users?

Adam Sherk

source=rss, ?xid=newsletter, xid=newsletter, ?nav=home). Marketing teams like to track referrals from newsletters, RSS, partnerships, internal navigation, etc. Furthermore, if a link coded with “newsletter” gets shared widely on Twitter or somewhere else the data provided by that tracking code is no longer an accurate representative of newsletter traffic.

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Rework – Video Book Review

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Rework – Video Book Review Written on August 1, 2010 by Justin Levy in books , reviews , video 2 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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5 Tried and True LinkedIn Tips to Grow your Company Page Followers 600% Faster

Buffer Social

Pro tip: Use RSS feeds. If you’re unsure what to post to LinkedIn, or if you’d like a steady stream of quality content, we suggest taking some time to add a few RSS feeds to your content inbox. Quick note: RSS feeds are only available in our paid plans ). We’ve been using RSS feeds in tandem with our LinkedIn marketing strategy for years and we’ve found that it provides us with a solid supply of content to share all the time.

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How to Make Sure Your Emails Land in Gmail’s Primary Inbox

Convince & Convert

I have also put together some examples of perfect newsletters here. The Promotions inbox is affecting everyone, especially since the old ways of developing email newsletters go against Google’s new rules. Avoid RSS In my experience, almost every RSS feeds lands in my Promotions tab. Because RSS is automated, Google can surmise that it’s not being sent by a real person, so it doesn’t belong in Gmail Primary (even though I subscribed to it).

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Is it Time to Burn Feedburner? There are Alternatives

ProBlogger

The two most important channels are email and RSS. Several services exist which help you to offer easy RSS & Email subscription options, ranging from RSS subscription facilitators (turning your RSS feed into a nice-to-look-at subscription screen which anyone can understand), RSS2Email as well as classic Email marketing services. Feedburner offers solutions for both RSS and Email. For the RSS-part you can then use Feedblitz or Feedpress.

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21 Sources For Blog Ideas

Small Business Mavericks

Your RSS aggregator – Do you subscribe to the most popular blogs in your niche? E-mail newsletters you subscribe to. Where do you get your blog ideas ? If you are a successful blogger in your niche, then I’d be willing to bet that you don’t get your ideas for posts all from one source. There are plenty of places to go online to get ideas for your blog posts. No matter what industry or niche you serve, these 21 sources for blog post ideas are golden opportunities.

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Link Building Tactics for Publishers

Adam Sherk

E-mail newsletters and RSS feeds. E-mail newsletters are a still a major traffic driver for many publishers and e-mail remains a powerful communication channel that isn’t going anywhere. Specific to link building, newsletters offer a great vehicle for content discovery which indirectly leads to links and social sharing. So maintain a decent selection of feeds and don’t let the impending shutdown of Google Reader move you away from RSS.

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Learn How to Optimize Your Videos

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Learn How to Optimize Your Videos Written on January 3, 2010 by Justin Levy in books , social media , techniques , video 9 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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How to Get the Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2011

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Beyond your regular evergreen content, this newsletter will provide you with breaking developments and other useful articles in social media that will help you further your digital marketing goals. Buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , a primer to social media marketing, and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed.

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Should You Publish On Sunday?

Small Business Mavericks

It’s a hold over from the old days when it was deemed that Thursday was the best day for your newsletters and sales specials to land in consumers’ mail boxes on Thursday. Today, people read their e-mail, RSS feeds, and social media posts when it’s convenient for them. When is the best time to publish your content? Publishers and online marketers have debated this for years.

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Top 10 Social Media Management Tools for 2020

agora pulse

Publishing: When you use e-clincher, you can create post queues, automatically post from RSS feeds, and bulk publish for efficiency. You can also automatically publish content from RSS feeds, such as your company’s blog.

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Are You Subscribed Yet?

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are You Subscribed Yet? If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. Let’s be real now… Subcribe via Google Reader Google Reader happens to be my favorite RSS reader and I highly recommend it. Written on January 11, 2010 by Justin Levy in announcements , connectiondrive , miscellaneous 4 Comments - Leave a comment!

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How to Create Shareable Content for Social Media on a Consistent Basis – First Round Review [SSM025]

Buffer Social

How to listen : iTunes | Google Play | SoundCloud | Stitcher | RSS. The importance of a delivering a quality email newsletter. The newsletter definitely precipitates that for us.” “Every time we publish a new article we have a very thorough process of sharing it through social media and our newsletter – we use MailChimp for that. We’re very careful to send new pieces to our newsletter first as exclusive access.”

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How to Increase Your Email List Subscriptions

ProBlogger

When I started Digital Photography School back in 2007, RSS was being hailed as the Next Big Thing. Unfortunately, RSS feeds weren’t the easiest things to subscribe to or keep up to date with. Sure, RSS may not have taken off like it was supposed to.

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How to Increase Your Email List Subscriptions

ProBlogger

When I started Digital Photography School back in 2007, RSS was being hailed as the Next Big Thing. Unfortunately, RSS feeds weren’t the easiest things to subscribe to or keep up to date with. Sure, RSS may not have taken off like it was supposed to.

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How to Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page, 2012 Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Get my Internet Marketing newsletter , buy my book, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web , and subscribe to the Techipedia RSS feed. This is a guest post by Tim Ware. Although the rollout of Timeline met with a lot of resistance from those used to the previous interface, over time we’ve all realized that it offers much more control over the visual branding of pages than ever before.

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Capturing One Day of Your Life

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Capturing One Day of Your Life Written on July 7, 2010 by Justin Levy in community , video 0 Comments - Leave a comment! If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed.

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