Comments on: Four Simple Steps to More Blog Subscribers

By: bucktowndusty

bucktowndusty — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 20:16:46 +0000

Hello Brian. Nice site. I’ve added you to my links (www.fromthepen.com)

I’d like to share with you and your readers a cool little trick I used to get more people to join the mailing list of a fishing charter company whose web site I created.

Go to http://www.reelfunsolomons.com and tell me what’s the first thing on the page you notice. If you don’t say the highlighted flashing newsletter signup field, I’d be highly surprised.

Check the coding if you want to steal it for yourself. If you or your readers don’t know how to hack the code let me know and I’ll help you( I coded HTML for the last 8 years)

Regards
Buck

By: Martin Ralya

Martin Ralya — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:28:55 +0000

I’ve just implemented all of these tips on my blog — they’re fantastic. Thank you for an excellent article.

By: kulimboy

kulimboy — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:12:16 +0000

Thank you so much Brian. I have already implement your idea in my site. I hope you will give more great idea like this in your post.. Thanks again Brian..

By: John Rivera

John Rivera — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 00:15:11 +0000

Hello! You’re simply awesome. I enjoyed reading your educational posts because they’ve helped me alot.You’ve opened my eyes to many mistakes I was making in my posting and simple positioning of feeds on my blog.

A millions thanks!

Sucess and victory!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:28:35 +0000

That’s not good, and it’s a Feedblitz issue. I’ll look into it, and won’t hesitate to switch providers if it happens again.

By: Computer Repair guy - Paul

Computer Repair guy - Paul — Wed, 31 May 2006 01:25:52 +0000

Great idea, make it easier to subscribe! unfortunately when i put in my email address feedburner says “my email address has previously been unsubscribed” so I needed to confirm something.. ( I dont really know where this came from )

I tried my other email address, hit submit and got sent back to the same page, over and over asking me to type in the ‘security key’ and submit.. I did that about 3 times, for different keys then I gave up.

Ironic how I did this after reading a post about making it easy to subscribe. thought you might be interested to hear the feedback! . Cheers

By: Direct Response Works

Direct Response Works — Wed, 24 May 2006 23:35:06 +0000

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By: Gary Reid

Gary Reid — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:24:55 +0000

Power traffic to your blog using social bookmarking…

Just the other day Ryan at 37Signals made a great post about using Digg for marketing It goes like this:
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By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 18 May 2006 05:56:56 +0000

I’m with you, Raj. Good point. There is a lot of substance here in this blog, but it’s not preachy and it’s surely not textbook. You can find plain old factual data in plenty of places, but it’s so much more digestible when it travels along a smooth path of personality.

And as to the actual post…yar! Brian, you’re right on the money. As a person who’s spent a lot of time in sales, advertising and fundraising, I’ve learned the hard way that the best way to NOT get money is to never ask for it. Same goes for a subscription or probably any “call to action.”

Keep it up, Brian! Great to have you.

By: raj

raj — Tue, 16 May 2006 17:06:40 +0000

I don’t know if I agree with you, Ming. I find Brian’s voice very professional yet one-on-one. Yes, I detect the lawyer sometimes, but fortunately there’s no doublespeak here.

Subscriber count volatility is a normal part of the process.