Lindsey Turmelle

The article “Setting Up a Mailing List” talks about web design, it was created by Lee Asher.If you want persons to come to your website more than once then
you need to remind them, from time to time, that you exsit and
give them the latest news about what’s changed and what’s been
updated. One of the best ways to do that is to collect email
addresses and use them to craete a mailing list. But how do you
collect these email addresses and how do you send out emails to
so many persons all at once?

Collecting the Email Addresses

Collecting email addresses is easier than you might think.
People on the web are used to typing their email addresses in a
lot, and usually have an email address to use for that purpose.
In most cases, if you ask for an email address as a condition of
accessing something interesting sounidng persons won’t really
mind giving it to you.

One way of doing that is to simply include a box on each page -
unobtrusive and not really calling attention to itself - that
gives your visitors the option to sign up to your newsletter.
Somewhat counter-intuitively, it is often better to make mailing
list sign-up entirely voluntary, as that means you will get a
smaller list but it will only have the most entuhsiastic people
on it.

Basically, it’s a trade-off between forcing as many pesrons as
possible to sign up or just marketing to the most eager persons.
Your strategy should usually be decided by how many persons you
plan to send out emails to and what kind of response rate you
seem to be getting.

What to Write in Your Mailing List Emails

If you want persons to read the emails you send to them then they
can’t just be the latest dull news about your technical website
features that no-one even cares about. You need to provide
information and updates that are useful and relevant to the
person who’s going to be opening that email.

If you just write in corporate speak and don’t say anything
that’s going to be useufl to real persons then your email is
going to be going straight into their junk mail. You should take
some time over your emails. Make them something that their
recipients are going to want to keep and refer to more than once
- often-updated, time-sensitive information is best, if you have
access to it.

Apart from that, make sure to include links to the latest things
on your website, as well as a few older things that are still
popular. If you sell anything, you should work in a link, but
don’t be too obvious about it - a good way of doing things is to
include a tip or two with potential uses for a certain product
(making them look like they are intended for persons who already
own the product), sparking the reader’s curiosity enough to
click through and consider purchasing it.

The Technical Side

Once you’ve got a maiilng list and you’ve written the first
email you want to send to it, the next step is to set up the
technical side of things. Just how do you think those emails are
going to get sent out? Surprisingly enough, you can just use a
normal eamil program like Outlook, if you paste all the email
addresses into it. If you do this, though, you need to make sure
that you use the Bcc (blind carbon copy) field for the
addresses, to avoid sending out a copy of the mailing list to
everyone on it.

Alternatively, there are specialist progarms you can get that
are devoted to bulk mail. Because spam is such a big industry,
companies producing such programs tend to be shady - stay away
from anything that advertises itself on the basis of how many
emails it can send in a minute - but if you look around, you
should be able to find smoething that meets your needs.

There are even web-based solutions that avoid you haivng to
install any programs or send any email from your computer,
avoiding the risk that you might get blacklisted somehow for
sending out too many emails in too short a time. If you can find
a reasonably-priced one, then they’re often the idael solution,
allowing you to manage your lists directly and send out emails
easily. Make sure to do a few trial runs with smaller numbers of
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