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"What should I send to my author e-mail list?" - Build Book Buzz — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 19:53:48 +0000

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By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 22:12:29 +0000

In reply to Mili.

I’m so glad it helped you, Mili. That’s great! Your blog post is wonderful — I’m sure that it, in turn, will help others.

Thanks!

Sandy

By: Mili

Mili — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 20:48:42 +0000

Hi Sandra!

This post was such an interesting resource. You have helped me streamline my research process, and in the end I decided to go with MailChimp.

Here is a link to my post, featuring you and my reasons for going with MailChimp if you are interested: http://mili-fay-art-publishing.blogspot.ca/2014/07/part-07-mili-fay-wonders-gmail-or-email.html

Thank you again!

By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:22:54 +0000

In reply to Sara Kendall.

Sara, I believe the e-mail list management services work with just about any type of website infrastructure. The companies don’t put the address collection form on your site — you do. They provide everything you need to do that, including instructions. To make sure this was done the right way on my site, I outsourced it to my web person. You might want to do that, too.

Sandy

By: Sara Kendall

Sara Kendall — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:57:12 +0000

I am a subscriber to your buzz email, and have enjoyed reading a lot of good information which you have provided. I am with a traditional publisher, so some of it I cannot do, but I am very much interested in the email list, and have tried it on my website. I also am interested in checking out what Randi said about yahoogroups. Does the lists you mentioned earlier work with any websites? And do they put the information on my website for others to sign up?

By: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:36:04 +0000

Thanks, Randi!

Sandy

By: Randi Kreger

Randi Kreger — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:28:06 +0000

If you would like me to write something about creating communities, let me know.

By: Randi Kreger

Randi Kreger — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:25:39 +0000

In reply to Randi Kreger. The type of computer you have doesn't make any difference for either of these. If you want help setting up a message board or listsev let me know. You can go through yahoogroups and join several and see how they work. Some groups keep archives of old messages. If you go to my Welcome to Oz, I have kept archives for a dozen years.

By: Randi Kreger

Randi Kreger — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 02:22:53 +0000

In reply to Jan Zanoni. There are two easy ways to create a community. If you go to yahoogroups (and I think google plus too though I have never used it) and you create a group, it can be seen in a directory for everyone to notice. Then you can promote it on your own. Essentially, it is group email with everyone being able to subscribe and unsubscribe using certain commands like sending an email to unsubscribe-welcome to oz. It's a community of people who want to talk to each other about certain topics. BPDFamily.com offers another kind of community, a message board model. You can go take a look. Technically this is harder. But they both involve oversight. You want to find a few volunteers to help you out.