I’d like to welcome the several new subscribers to our monthly newsletter and several new subscribers via RSS feed.
I got a email last month from a subscriber that I have made confused between these two forms of communication. Perhaps blogs and feeds are new to you. Allow me to introduce the differences:
Newsletter:
Our newsletter is a monthly feature, typically near the end of the month. It usually offers a summary of popular posts, members only downloads, and practical tips only for subscribers.
When you first sign up for our newsletter, you’ll get a series of emails about our website, with links to some popular articles in the past. After that series finishes, you’ll get a monthly newsletter and the occasional announcement from me.
Free bonus: You’ll also receive Avoiding First Time Visitor Nightmares, an article I wrote for Net Results magazine.
Two ways to get your RSS Feed
The RSS Feed is a publishing tool that will automatically send you new articles that are posted here at EvangelismCoach.
RSS Feed by Reader
Many people use feed readers such as bloglines or google feedfetcher (nearly 50% of my feed subscribers use these two readers).
A feed reader collects all your feeds, highlights the new articles and allows you to follow all your favorite blogs, news, gossip. I use Bloglines.com for mine. The list of blogs I read (plus several others not shown) are in the column to the far right of this screen.
RSS Feed by Email
Others choose to receive the RSS Feed by email. Whenever a new article is published, it is automatically emailed to you.
Thus, if you get the monthly newsletter, and subscribe to the RSS Feed by email, you will get lots of email from me, based on how many articles are published. If I start going to multiple articles a day, your email volume will increase.
What to change how you get your RSS Feed? Simply visit the RSS Feed Subscription page.
Now what?
 | Get your free copy of Avoiding First Time Visitor Nightmares and signup for our newsletter if you’ve yet done so. |
 | Grab on to our feed, or modify your feed subscription. |
About EvangelismCoach
Hi, I just came across your site today. And blogged about on of your recent articles:
http://churchmarketingonline.com/2008/05/church-press-release-killed-by-christianese/
Looks like you post a lot of great stuff, so I subscribe to the RSS feed for your blog.
I’m interested in reading your newsletter, but I’m trying to ween myself completely off of email newsletters. If you could create an RSS feed for the newsletter that would be great. Or maybe just mention when you’ve got a new newsletter published in the blog.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Paul Steinbrueck
OurChurch.com / Church Marketing Online
Thanks for dropping by and leaving the suggestion. I hope to be of help.
There are some other articles about marketing that might be helpful for you:
http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2007/02/poor-word-choice-for-a-church-sign
http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2007/09/hard-to-get-what-time-are-your-services
http://www.evangelismcoach.org/2008/02/business-cards-that-church-members-can-give-away
Just a thought:
Chris.
Chris.