It may have been a while since you’ve last heard from us: in particular in your inbox. It’s not like that we haven’t been busy, it’s simply that we never manage to get round to putting a newsletter together for our dozens of newsletter subscribers.
In a nutshell our ‘real world’ newsletter subscribers have tuned into something we don’t frequently update, while back ‘on the web’ only a handful were using RSS to subscribe to updates. Too many interested parties were missing out on the good stuff.
Why not combine these two ‘broken’ aspects into something that works better, for everyone? We already post content on our blog on a regular basis. We already have newsletter subscribers. Let’s marry these two concepts and make life easier for everyone involved.
Introducing email subscriptions & post notifications
You can now subscribe to our site - or any Tank site - via email and when we post new content we can easily notify your inbox about it.
Think of it as a dead-simple plain-text mailing list which inform those who live in email-land about new content after you published it on your site - which is where the content rightfully belongs for your other visitors (and Google) to enjoy.
At this stage we’ve deployed this feature only on our site and after we test it we’ll be rolling it out to as a standard feature on all upgraded sites too. Details will arrive in your inbox as and when it’s available for you to deploy on your own site.
This sounds like a great feature!
cant wait
Bobby
You can enable subscriptions now, if required. Head over to your site's User tab, go to Subscribers and choose to enable subscriptions. Then simply include the subscribe form anywhere on your site.
This makes a lot of sense and simplifies email newsletters (most of us don't get round to sending them on a regular basis. A blog post is short and succinct and much more likely to get done.
The only issue - is that users must click through to see the content - and many (I do) will skim emails rather than click through to a website.
Another advantage of email to overcome is that as I read them I don't have to wait for the content to load, typically it's already sitting in my local inbox. And I can take it with me on my mobile device to read when I have a moment.
I guess at the end of the day it's the quality of the content that really counts.
David
We'll allow you to edit the 'newsletter' before you send it - so you can choose whether to send only the blurb, or the full text.