Comments on: Personal Notes to Subscribers

By: Catherine Rutgers

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:14:56 +0000

Hello, all, Thank you for this lively, informative and inspiring discussion!
I’m trying out thank-you messages for now, and will monitor and adjust over time. For those who are discouraged by spam subscriptions, etc., if you haven’t already, contact your host: they will almost always be most helpful. All best wishes!!

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By: Patricia C Vener

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0000

In reply to Yvonne Ham.

Well, I’m still only (as far as I can tell) getting fake people subscriptions to my blog and I really don’t want to answer those and find myself with more email spam once they have my return email.
For my newsletter, unless they tell me, I don’t know if/when anyone subscribes. But that’s probably because I am still using PHPList.

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By: Yvonne Ham

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:05:52 +0000

Everyone can and should be able to make a reply thank you personal. I always stress that you are the next great supporter of my work. Without the support and interest of art lovers artist may stop creating. Thank you for being interested in my work and my career. I will answer your call and continue to expand and paint. Then just add thanks for signing up for my blog, email etc. (note: I don’t think twitter sign ups are as important but, may look into it)

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By: Lisa Call

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:03:41 +0000

Since noone else has disagreed….
To me this is the same question as to whether you should send a thank you because someone follows you on twitter.
Overwhelmingly the answer to that question is NO – don’t do it unless you can make it very personal.
With only an email address for a blog subscription – how can you make it personal? I don’t think you can very often – the result – it’ll just look like a canned spam email, which people are generally not fond of receiving.
Ditto for spam direct message tweets. It’s simply annoying.
I think if you have something personal to say (for instance you can identify the subscriber by name and have check out their website or something similar) – great – go for it.
But if all you are going to say is “thanks for subscribing to my blog” – I’d say don’t waste their time. Wait til they comment and then engage them in a personal conversation.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 03:57:50 +0000

In reply to Jennifer Ressmann.

Jennifer: That’s SO nice (to send TY to clerks at grocery store). You’ve gone above and beyond. Imagine how surprised they were to receive the notes!

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By: Jennifer Ressmann

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:55:03 +0000

I love to send thank you notes, emails. Whenever and to whomever. To combat all the complaining that goes on in the world, we should definitely send praises as well. On that note – yep, just yesterday I sent an email thank you to someone that subscribed to my blog. I never feel it’s an intrusion – but sometimes a little wishy washy – isn’t that ridiculous! (I even send thank you’s to the clerks at the grocery store)

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By: Patricia C Vener

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:51:17 +0000

In reply to Sari.

Thanks for the encouragement Sari. It’s much needed and appreciated after this week! I’ve hardly been online at all. The weather (all this snow and now Air Quality Alert days!) has made taking care of my mother rather more time consuming even that usual so I am behind on things. I am still planning on getting the statcounter installed (tomorrow or later tonight).
One thing I have learned from this experience is that if I have the strength to deal with my mother’s Alzheimer’s I can probably face almost anything. Given the time and I can control the time as long as I am still alive and intellectually functional.
Go me!

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By: Sari

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:33:57 +0000

In reply to Patricia C Vener.

(Patricia) You beautiful person! Good for you for trying again…Good for you for planning to make cookies for your mother…Keep trying! We all know how hard it is for you right now & it is great to hear you still have got some fight in you…Baby steps…That’s just great!

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By: Patricia C Vener

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 18:19:51 +0000

StatCounter Update: I sent an email to their support and have since gotten a reply that I plan to attempt to implement over the weekend. I’m snowed in today, so am trying to catch up on some other things first. Also might make cookies for my mother.

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