For a number of you who subscribe via email to flyte: web marketing strategies for small business, this email may look drastically different.
Early on in my blogging career I added a Bloglet email subscription box to our blog, allowing visitors to get my new posts via email. However, the service has always been spotty. Several times I’ve had to log into my account and reset it after I realized I hadn’t been receiving my email feed for about a week.
More recently we switched the subscription box on our blog over to AWeber which allows us to send out HTML versions of our blog posts. As a design firm, I much prefer the ability to brand our posts.
If you don’t have an AWeber account, two other blog-to-email solutions include Feedblitz and Feedburner. Feedblitz even offers a Bloglet-to-Feedblitz converter, which allows you to automatically add your Bloglet subscribers to Feedblitz without annoying them with another confirmation email.
Unfortunately, as I just discovered, AWeber automatically sends your Bloglet email subscriber a confirmation message even though they’ve already confirmed their subscription, reducing the changes your subscribers will continue to receive your emails. Thanks a lot, AWeber!
According to a new post on Bloglet’s home page, they plan on phasing out the service in the next few weeks. So, if you have a blog and offer Bloglet as a subscription solution, you’ll need to move those subscribers onto another platform, pronto.
Unless you have an AWeber account, I’d recommend Feedblitz or Feedburner. The nice thing about Feedblitz is the ability to brand the email feed with your own design if you go with the Pro account. If you’re looking for someone to create a branded template, feel free to contact flyte. We’ve done that for a number of clients, including ourselves.
Rich Brooks
Maine Business Blogger
Tags: Bloglet | Feedblitz | Feedburner | AWeber
Rich,
I'd be interested in your thoughts regarding Zookoda. Their service is fairly advanced and I think that Bloglet/Feedblitz users would be impressed. Email messages are fully customizable, can be scheduled, and can include a feed AND your own magical, marketing text.
Cortland,
I haven't played around with Zookoda, but in an email I received from them, they said:
"Zookoda is, and will remain FREE. In fact we intend to bring revenue streams to our users by partnering with a search engine company to deliver ads next to the content going out in your newsletters."
So, assuming that Zookoda does work well, sharing your space w/ads would be a decision every blogger would need to make.
Have you had any experience with them? Anyone want to weigh in?