Best newsletter service for blogger

Newsletter from RSS for blogger

by Tiziano on February 25, 2010

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RSS feeds are the default choice if someone wants to follow your blog updates. But there are a lot of people who don’t know anything about feed, RSS, Atom and so on.

So, why don’t you offer a newsletter to let them follow yor updates via email?

There are several services to accomplish this task, some of them are free and some are paid services.

During past years I’ve tried lot of them but in the end I prefer to choose an highly reliable and customizabile solutions like Aweber. [click to continue…]

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