Five months ago I decided to close my newsletter. I explained my reasons in detail in an article entitled “I Do Not Want Your Email Address“. This decision went against everything internet marketers tell you to do. Across the board, the vast majority of internet marketers and bloggers state that …
Far too often we see roundup articles with the best WordPress themes, that some of the other top platforms get neglected. Have you ever heard of Ghost? If not, you may want to consider it, because it provides a beautiful opensource interface that many would argue is easier to manage …
A weekly email that lists your latest blog posts is a great way to deliver content to your readers and/or bring them back to your website on a regular basis. I have tried a number of different ways of delivering a weekly email newsletter to subscribers over the last few …
Your email list is gold. When your readers trust you with their email, you want to honor that trust with a newsletter they’ll eagerly open, read, and enjoy; and not quickly delete. Imagine… Jane, your newsletter subscriber, quickly scans her inbox. She’s glad to see an email from you, and …
I have been experiencing problems with my email marketing provider GetResponse for around two months. I do not want to bore you with the details of their terrible service again, so if you want more information on why my weekly newsletter was not delivered for seven or eight weeks, please …
I have watched the evolution of Facebook pages closely over the last two years; mainly because I have a dog in the fight. I spent a lot of money on promoting Facebook pages for my websites; spurred on by the promotional nudge of Facebook themselves. Sadly, page reach has decreased …
When it comes to promoting your email list, there is no such thing as overexposure. I truly believe you should promote your email list at every opportunity. This was something I kept in mind when I changed the design of this blog earlier this month. In addition to the sign …
I no longer maintain a newsletter as I prefer to connect to people directly through my blog, through YouTube, or through Rise Forums. I do still offer a way of getting email updates of my latest blog posts. Please visit my subscribe page for more information.
The article in the New York times 2 days ago about people blogging til they dropped has stirred up a lot of discussion on the web. John Chow and David Peralty have both written posts today about how being fat and blogging on a regular basis has little or no …
GeneratePress is an efficient WordPress theme that loads quickly on desktops and mobile devices. This blog has been using the premium version of GeneratePress since early 2020 and it’s by far the fastest WordPress theme I have used. Despite the speed of GeneratePress, for a couple of weeks in July …