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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Marigold123 wrote: |
If there are members who don't like newsletters or are worried about spam, perhaps you could put a link in a prominent place on the site, giving visitors the opportunity to sign up for (or unsubscribe from) the newsletter independently of registering. ie, You could sign up for the newsletter without registering, you could register without signing up, you could do both or neither, and change your subscription options at any time from the main page, your personal profile, or via the newsletter itself, without changing your membership status.
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Good idea, but then someone's got to write it... |
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Marigold123
Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 224
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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judyofthewoods wrote: |
What about a short email with a readily recognised logo, with a contents list and a link to a webpage with the news? That webpage could either be set up specially for the newsletter, or could be linked to from the main site. |
I like the idea of a separate newsletter page, where either casual visitors who arrived by other routes, or regular visitors who don't want to receive a newsletter by email, can pop in and view it. If it is good, it might encourage others to sign up to the emailed newsletter itself!
I think it should be identical to the newsletter that gets emailed, though, as I don't find a plain link with no jam very enticing.
I actually quite like the format of the MSE newsletter, as an example. It usually has a good balance of plain text, clear links and tempters, and usually isn't too long and doesn't have too much garbage.
I think that a newsletter which is being used partly to sign up new members, as well as to keep current ones in touch, does need a few 'samples' of what can be read on the site, to draw people in. I expect that if current members are aware that the newsletter they receive is being harnessed to this purpose, they will be prepared to put up with a certain amount of 'icing', and hopefully pass it on! |
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judyofthewoods
Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 804 Location: Pembrokeshire
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Marigold123
Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 224
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Marigold123
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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judyofthewoods wrote: |
On the subject of forum traffic/size I think this one seems to be the optimum size. I have been on a few, and some have so little traffic, that visitors get bored, move on, and then the traffic gets even less...viscous circle. Then I've been on a forum which had so much traffic, that any post is immediatly swamped by masses of new threads, and actually gets very little viewing. A delicate ballance indeed, maybe tide and ebb? |
Actually, I think this site is perfect. Enough stuff being written to be interesting, but small enough to be cosy. But I thought I read that people were hoping to increase the membership a bit. If that's the case, then a forwardable newsletter is a good way to do that. |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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Marigold123
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28100 Location: escaped from Swindon
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Marigold123 wrote: |
Actually, I think this site is perfect. Enough stuff being written to be interesting, but small enough to be cosy. But I thought I read that people were hoping to increase the membership a bit. If that's the case, then a forwardable newsletter is a good way to do that. |
Cosy can be attractive, the "DC" team I am in, has that same feel, a small enough membership for a good supportive feeling and of people really knowing each other
With this site though, we do have to put such things aside, and take the attitude that we want to get a message across. If we end up with a site with 10,000 members it may well have lost something in the atmosphere, but won't we all have achieved something worthwhile
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Marigold123
Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 224
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28100 Location: escaped from Swindon
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 45389 Location: Essex
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Marigold123
Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 224
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, Bugs pounced so fast that I hadn't even seen the site yet when I was brutally, and completely against my will, forced to say yes!
I have agreed to write an article on my chicken shed conversion, which I was foolish enough to admit to having done, ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WEBSITE I might add, just before Bugs swung in on a commando rope and forcibly captured me and brought me here.
On arrival, I was immediately brainwashed into thinking that I was among friends and like-minded people, so that now I don't even want to leave, and don't realise I am a prisoner any more! |
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Bugs
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10744
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28100 Location: escaped from Swindon
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