Congratulations!You’re offering an email newsletter. That’s great. However, most likely you made the experience that it’s damn hard to get people to subscribe to it.
Did you ever take some time to think why this is the case? We did, and discovered that the secret to getting subscribers is quite simple:give people what they want.
SpecificFeeds is anew subscription optionwhich delivers people what they want – rewarding you with more readers:
Content of their choice
Your prospective subscribers can choose which messages they want to receive.
For example, they can choose to only receive messages with specific tags, authors, or keywords. Have a look atyour filter screen.
Brevity of their choice
Subscribers can decide if they want to receive only the headlines or the snippets/entire stories (if you decided to have your RSS feed contain this information).
This helps them to not get overloaded with information – making it more likely that they keep reading your content.
Delivery channel of their choice
Receiving separate messages for every new post only adds to our already cluttered inboxes.
Therefore subscribers can choose to receive messages in their Personal Newspapers, which is one email (per day, week, or month) that contains all the messages in an aggregated form (similar to an email digest).
If you were a visitor of your own blog, would those features make it more likely that you subscribe?
But that’s not all – by using SpecificFeeds you’ll benefit in other ways too:
Yourmessages will actually get read
You’ll getinteresting insightsinto your subscribers
It’sFREE(basic plan)
Get started: Use this wordpress plugin to place the subscription form and/or icon(s) on your site
Alternatively, you could also download theiconor thesubscription form. If you want to use SpecificFeeds also for RSS then please use this pluginto apply a redirect to your new feed on SpecificFeeds.
If you already use a form – e.g. because it came with your theme – you can link it to your feed on SpecificFeeds by giving it the following action url:
Please make sure the name of the email field in the form is «email».
I like it – but does it compete with my email newsletter?
SpecificFeeds offers many more benefits (for you & for your subscribers) than an email newsletter. Why miss out on those?
In a way all subscription and follow-options (be it RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest etc.) compete with each other. However, it is generally recommended to display all of them anyway because peoples’ preferences are different, and the more options you provide, the higher the chances that there’s something people like – and subscribe.
When in doubt, why don’t you give it a trial run and see if it helps you to get more readers?
Will my subscribers receive spam from SpecificFeeds?
No!
Of course your subscribers will never receive emails they didn’t subscribe to. If we did that, we would lose all trust (and clients). Nor do we sell them to any third parties. Read our privacy policy.
Instead, our source of income is through legit ways – check out the optional premium features we offer.
Will I get access to my subscribers’ emails?
Yes, you will get access to all emails from subscribers who signed up to your feed from your subscription screen. And, of course, the emails you imported.
To get access you need to claim your feed, then login, go to «My Offered Feeds» >> «Statistics» and click on «Download Data» (on the «Subscribers & Views» tab).
Please note that you will not get access to the emails from the additional users who subscribed to your feed directly on SpecificFeeds (on this page). That’s because users who browse the SpecificFeeds directory and subscribe to various feeds wouldn’t do this if every publisher got access to their emails.
Will I be able to import subscribers to my new list?