Email Subscription Services and their Importance
Email subscription services are important as everyone owns an E-mail ID and its a simple way to promote your blog. Email subscription services allows you to deliver a newsletter to all subscribers. This tools also enable you to send your readers a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest posts to their Email address.
Email subscriptions are important because not all readers will be using a feed reader. In my initial days of blogging I never used a reader. I used to subscribe to the blogs using Email subscription service. Moreover some people like to get updates in their mail box rather than opening the feed reader daily. I have a few blogs which I have subscribed through Email.
Email subscription tool also allows you to customize the news letter based on your theme. Another major advantage is that you can schedule the delivery of your news letter for a certain day or a week or a month. With an Email subscription service running on your blog, you can definitely increase your readership.
Here are top 5 Email subscription services.
1. Feedburner: Feedburner is rated as the top service for providing feeds. They also provide Email subscription services. FeedBurner email is a service that allows publishers to deliver their feed content to subscribers via email. All you need is to activate the service and put the code in your blog. Feedburner allows the following customizations;
- Customize the subject line and title of the email that is sent to your subscribers
- Add a custom logo that appears at the top of HTML email messages
- Change body and headline text fonts, sizes and color as well as the color of the links
- Choose your timezone
- Select a two-hour delivery window within which your daily digest will be sent
2. FeedBlitz: Feedblitz is another service which offer Email news letter with lot of options. It offers;
- Email, Skype, AIM and Twitter delivery.
- Automatically generated HTML pages and RSS feeds.
- Customization and personalization.
- Real-time analytics.
- Easy implementation.
3. Zookoda: Zookoda is an email marketing application designed specifically for bloggers. Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox.
- Enhance your blog with custom newsletter subscription forms.
- Design eye-catching newsletters to match your blog design.
- Schedule recurring broadcasts for each day, week or month.
- View real-time open, bounce, click and unsubscribe reports.
4. List Power: Listpower gives an opportunity to easily keep track of your readers with news and latest stuffs in your blog. It has a powerful listserver technology which creates a daily, weekly or monthly newsletter, or, new products announcements, or just to keep your customers/readers in touch with your website/blog. List power also has an impressive affiliate program based on the number of Email subscribers.
5. Mailer4U: Mailer4U is another service offer Email newsletters. Mailer4u can be tested for free with 100 emails. Once these have been used you will need to purchase new mailing credits. Other features are;
- Send unlimited emails a month
- Customize members sign up
- Get additional info from members
- Track results and Download to Excel
- HTML Templates
This blog is using the Email subscription service provided by Feedburner. You can try out the the email subscription service of this blog.
Are you using Email subscription service in your blog. If not, I strongly recommend you to use one to improve your readership.
Technorati tags: Email, Email Subscription, Feedburner, Feedblitz, Zookoda, Listpower, Mailer4U
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Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:03 am
I don’t personally prefer to subscribe to email since i don’t want my inbox to be floated with emails. But as said by you this is a good option for reader who don’t use Feed readers and read too many blogs
BTW, I initially used FeedBurner for email delivery and later I switched to FeebBlitz since they had more customization options compared with FeedBurner
Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:10 am
I use Feedburner right now for subscriptions. I like my feeds delivered to my inbox.
I get annoyed of some blogs when they don’t offer email subscriptions.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Yes it is essential for those who don’t use feed readers like me
BTW i am subscribed to your blog thro’ email only.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 5:51 am
VERY useful list.
I didn’t know that Feedblitz now offered deliver on so many services.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 8:44 am
@Benedict,
This is useful for people who do no use feed reader.
@Grace,
I too get annoyed when some blogs which I prefer to subscribe do not offer Email Subscription
@Ashish,
Thanks for subscribing.
@Kyle,
Feedblitz is a good option for EMail delivery.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 8:46 am
I would like to use Zookoda when my business blog launch! I see they have a great services and FREE!
Jun 29th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I am still exploring Zookoda.
No doubt email subscription is quite important. Everyone should offer email subscription link to their readers in their blog.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 9:51 am
kuanhoong- Zookoda is pretty good. But I use Feedburner.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 10:20 am
Grace:
Zookoda can make a mailing list and create a follow-up messages while feedburner only provide you email subscribtion and statistic. I think both excel in their own category. If you prefer for blogging without selling affiliate products, Feedburner will 100% suit you.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 11:23 am
@Ken Xu,
I too feel Zookoda has lot of options. You are right, it depends on your needs. I use feedburner.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
I personally don’t use these kind of services as they tend to flood my email inbox. Nevertheless, it’s a great tool for the junta who are feeds-rss-subscription challenged.
I use FeedBlitz for my blog. My Feedburner RSS readership count is around 335+ and my email readers are 243 Active Readers!
Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Recently only I included subscription by email after I heard the outrage with google reader. Email subscription option is much better if you post one or two posts per day .. but if the frequency is more, its better not to use as the email subscription will flood the inbox of the reader. But anyway , its the choice of reader and with what he is comfortable is ..
Thanks nirmal for making me aware of other services, I was just hooked with Feedburner , I think I need to explore
Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Good Post Nirmal. FeedBlitz and FeedBurner remain the best though.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Good post nirmal, i use feedburner and heard about feedblitz but never heard about others.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Advice taken. I have now added the option to subscribe through email in my blog.
I have never been fond of email updates though. I find using Opera’s built in feed reader to be most convinient.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
I use feedburner in my blog. But I have seen many pro bloggers use Zookoda too. Feedburner indeed is doing a great job.
Jun 29th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Good list. Never knew that FeedBlitz supports messenger delivery.
Jun 30th, 2007 at 5:01 am
I really have yet to get a lot of subscribers via e-mail, but I know it’s always an option you have to leave out there, because many have yet to delve into the world of RSS reader.
Jul 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
I prefer to use a feed reader because even i dont like my mail box to get flooded.. It’s better to keep things separate.. But it seems that many ppl like email subscriptions.. SO i think I should have it on my blog too..
Jul 7th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Kool. The art is in educating users of all this technology
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