I’ve spent most of this afternoon setting up “AutoResponder Plus” software to handle a simple Writing Tips Newsletter I’ve been threatening to get started for several months. (You’ll notice a very simple subscription form in the sidebar closest to this content.)
I think I’ve got the system working now, and if you’ve already signed up to receive it — well, you’ll be getting an email asking you to confirm that you want to receive the Writing Tips Newsletter. To confirm, you simply need to click on a link at the bottom of that message — and you’ll be taken to a web page telling you that you’ve successfully subscribed.
I’ve posted often in recent months about the puzzle of why anyone would register as a member of this blog. You don’t need to register to be able to leave a comment. And no one will post to this blog but me and those I invite to be “guest posters/writers/whatever.” But if you insist on registering for the blog, you’re certainly welcome to do that.
You won’t receive anything as a registered subscriber, except a confirmation email allowing you to log in — and do, well, do really nothing in particular.
BUT: If you enter your email address in the newsletter signup form — go ahead and do it; I’ll wait right here — you will occasionally receive one of my “once-in-awhile” newsletter with announcements about wonderful goodies you can find or even sometimes “win” as a subscriber to the newsletter.
So go ahead and sign up for the newsletter. Click the link you’ll get to confirm that subscription. Then monitor your emailbox for future “once-in-awhile” newsletters.
I have no requirements whatsoever that you be a “member” or that you be “logged in” to post a comment on this blog.
I made the decision some months ago, based on comments from other bloggers at various forums on which I roam, that anyone who chooses to can post a comment here — although I am notified of pending comments and must approve or deny them. I cannot understand, therefore, why anyone would feel the urge to register.
But that’s all right. Go ahead and register with your email address, and if you wish, with your name. BUT KNOW THIS –
If you register here and/or have registered here in the past, I am going to plug your name into a blog mailing list I am setting up for a sort of “occasional” or “irregular” newsletter. My plan is never to send you anything more than two or three times a month. Generally, if I can ever gear up for doing some article writing and Squidoo lens creation, I would be sending out a newsletter to the mailing list alerting you when I have lenses or articles for sale. Now, if you’ve hung around here long, you know I never have done such a thing before. But I have high hopes.
In a perfect world I would be able to earn enough revenue off this blog to make a comfortable living. In my version of the “real world,” I rarely make enough revenue from this and my two other main blogs to pay for monthly webhosting.
But my hopes are higher than that, and I wanted to post this so that you’d understand if you suddenly receive notice from my domain (garyspeer.com) that you’re on a mailing list or if you receive the first of my occasional/irregular newsletters.
And you will, of course, have an option at the bottom of any email you receive from garyspeer.com or any of my other domains to immediately cancel and not receive further email.
But why would you??
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