News By Tom Brownsword

I’ve decided to start an aperiodic newsletter. But rather than start a new list, I want to use the blog announcement list for this blog for my newsletter. In other words, one mailing list for two related purposes.

The newsletter won’t be anything “huge”, and I’m definitely not going to do it very often (perhaps once a week at most, and given my current schedule, even that would be a stretch), but I do want to make this option available in an effort to expand my marketing outreach.

I also care about my subscribers — and that’s where the issue lies. I promised that I would not use the list for anything but blog announcements (plus a few other clearly defined purposes), so before I can do that, I need your permission.

Pretty please?

So if you are currently signed up for my blog announcement list, could you do me a favor? If you don’t like this idea — in other words, if you dislike the idea of receiving an occasional newsletter in addition to blog post announcements — then please reply to the blog announcement email for this post and let me know. Remember, as a blog announcement list subscriber, you have the privilege of replying to the most recent blog announcement list at any time if you want to communicate with me (you can also use my Help Desk to talk to me), and of course I’d welcome any other input or feedback you’d care to provide.

You can also leave a comment on this post; that works fine, too.

I have an incredibly low unsubscribe rate for this blog announcement list; I hope that’s due to the fact that I only send what I said I would send… But that’s why I’m announcing this first and asking for your permission, and if enough people prefer to keep them separate, then I’ll do it that way. I prefer to combine the lists.

As always, however, my goal will be to provide value to you.

Thanks, as always, for your input and feedback.

Thanks for listening,
Tom