A follow up article relating to my re-blog of Author Anthony Refro’s question about Mailing Lists – in case YOU want to try them 😀
Mailing lists are a key tool to help any author build an audience, and for fans of the author’s work to have access to exclusive content and information about new releases before anyone else. These are not to be confused by your blog sign-up, which informs those signed up of new blog posts.
At the end of last week I announced to the world that I’d set up a mailing list to inform people about any future releases. While the mailing list has proved popular (getting a free book may have helped) by far the biggest question I was asked was: how did you set up your mailing list?
Sadly, unlike on wordpress.org self-hosted blogs, there isn’t a specific widget available to link to a mailing list service. However, there is a workaround you can use. I set my mailing list up with MailChimp, an excellent free-to-use service. There are many other services available…
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Thank you for sharing this clear advice and guide. Would have never known how to go about creating such a list.
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Thanks goes to Dylan who did all the research, hard work and posted it so I could reblog it Tanya 😀
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Highly useful information. Thanks Chris.
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Welcome Suzanne 😀
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So glad to have this info. Thanks Dylan & Chris. Shared 🙂
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Welcome Tina 😀
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Thanks so much for the re-blog, Chris. 🙂
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It worked well with my other re-blog yesterday Dylan, PLUS, it’s useful information – Thank YOU for posting it 😀
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