Subscribe to Site

There are three ways you can allow people to follow your site – each has their pros and cons.

The video below demonstrates each of them.  Here’s a short synopsis:

1. Email Marketing Service (example: Constant Contact) – Great if you are sending over 100 emails a month – it gets around the spam filters.  You get to see email addresses of signups (you own the list).  You have to use their system to create emails.  It’s not an easy system to learn, and if you’re not using it multiple times per month, it can get cumbersome
2. Simple Form  – With this, you simply ask the people for information (like name and email), and that information gets sent to you in an email.  This is nice because it’s EASY for everyone.  You get to see the email addresses (you own the list), and you have to send the emails out of your own email program.  Simple, but nothing is automated.
3. FollowSite Pluggin for WordPress – A small tag is added after every page and post on your site.  When a user enters their email and a password, the company called “FollowSite.com” will send them an email whenever you update your site (within a few hours of the update).  Cool thing is that it’s completely automated, and you don’t have to do ANYTHING.  The negative is that the company “FollowSite.com” owns the email address, and you never see it.

Watch video below.