Comments on: How to Create an Email Newsletter From Your Blog

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:08:00 +0000

Contactology offers this service, and it’s particularly powerful for publishers and daily deals sites. Draw readers back to your offers with newsletter emails populated — and sent — automatically with fresh content. When creating an email campaign select ‘from URL’ and input a URL, XML, or RSS link to pull content from. The content populates a premade template, and the newsletters send themselves.

http://www.contactology.com/publishers/

By: Brian Massey

Brian Massey — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 03:12:00 +0000

Bradfuffluff,

There is a code for taking the RSS/XML and converting it to HTML that will work in an email, but it isn’t really fancy. In feefblitz, the tag

inserts the HTML from my feed into an email template. In MailChimp, the tag is

*|RSS:POSTS_FULL|*

If you don’t know HTML, you will find this part of the process more difficult than inserting the titles, text and links from your feed.

Brian

By: bradfuffluff

bradfuffluff — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:58:00 +0000

How do services like this actually convert your rss-to-email? Is there some fancy code for taking the RSS/XML and converting it to HTML that will work in an email. I would like to be able to do this on my own if possible so I have maximum control of the design.

By: Brian Massey

Brian Massey — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 07:22:00 +0000

Thanks, Danny.

By: dannygutknecht

dannygutknecht — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:15:00 +0000

Good stuff brian.. We should chat soon..

By: globalcopywrite

globalcopywrite — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:14:31 +0000

Right you are, Brian. I fixed that problem in a West Australian minute. (5 WA minutes = 1 NY minute.) That's another good reminder we all need to trawl our own sites on a regular basis. Thanks.

By: Brian Massey

Brian Massey — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:47:46 +0000

As a writer, you have a leg up on creating emails (blog posts) that are interesting, entertaining and relevant. BTW, If you didn't ask for an Address, title and organisation in your form, you'd get more subscribers. http://www.globalcopywriting.com/subscribe/

Brian
http://ConversionScientist.com

By: globalcopywrite

globalcopywrite — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:30:27 +0000

Hi Brian,

I wish I had this column last week when I was working through this very project. I'm so glad to read your advice and have picked up a few extra tips, especially on inviting subscribers. I worried about frequency but am glad to see your advice that more is better.

One indicator I had that it was time to institute an email newsletter of my blog was readers asking for an email delivery of my posts. It didn't click with me right away. While on vacation I realised I wasn't surfing at all but I was still checking my email. It was a light bulb moment for me.

I've included a blog by email example in my current post, too.

Sarah

By: Brian Massey

Brian Massey — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:40:26 +0000

Jon, Glad the article was helpful. I took a quick look at your blog (http://www.postadvertising.com/) and you've already got a stream of very relevant content that would support a twice-monthly newsletter, if not weekly. I love your writing style and think it would lend itself very well to email.

Thanks for the comment.

Brian Massey
http://ConversionScientist.com

By: Jon Thomas

Jon Thomas — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:53:32 +0000

Great advice Brian. I've been looking to do something like this, so your post is quite timely. Thanks.

Jon Thomas
http://www.twitter.com/Story_Jon