Dec 8, 2018 | email management
I’m a bit skeptical, so when I got word a month or so ago that SendGrid, the email service (like MailGun or Amazon SES) that I mentioned in my book, From Blog To Bookstore, as an easy and convenient way to send emails to your large mailing list without paying...
Nov 15, 2018 | email management
I’m a firm believer that an author needs a newsletter and part of a strong newsletter strategy is an autoresponder sequence. These are emails which are sent out at certain intervals designed to introduce you to readers, as well as hopefully share a bit about...
Mar 2, 2017 | email management, reviews
Recently I wrote a blog post on what to do when you outgrow MailChimp and it’s proven to be very popular. One of the resources I mentioned was The Newsletter Plugin. This is a plugin that I use on multiple sites and I wanted to provide a review for you here. To...
Feb 26, 2017 | content management, email management
Recently I reached out to several writing groups and RWA chapters, or rather I tried to reach out to them. I wanted to offer newsletter content for them–something that in my experience as part of a writing group most chapters love to have. Since I teach classes,...
Nov 20, 2016 | email management
Your WordPress website will be sending some emails. Even if you don’t operate a webstore where order and payment emails are being sent, there will be forgotten passwords, blog subscriptions, and other miscellaneous emails that will go out from time to time. (For...
Dec 21, 2015 | email management
Maybe like me, you have two ideal clients. (I work with fiction authors and I work with entrepreneurs. Both are born from my own experiences in both worlds.) Or maybe you have so much awesome goodness that you want to share, so you create a couple of different...