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With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by dansingerman »

happybuy wrote: post #5
pud wrote: post #4

I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job. Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries. Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet a…

Wow... I think you undersell your previous blog. Being old enough to remember I think that Fuckedcompany.com was the Techcrunch of its time. Loved to read that site - it brought a sense of reality to the startup/web space which is probably still required to this day. For tinyletter, I like the idea however the one thing I would note is that it doesn't actually provide any sample of the type of newsletter that it woul…

I'd love it if one day Michael Arrington came on here talking about how Techcrunch was once a 'somewhat popular blog'

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by amarcus »

With a few lines of code you can easily incorporate tinyMCE wysiwyg editor.

Take it from somebody in the email marketing biz: sending emails in bulk is a massive headache. You need to worry about IP Reputation and whitelisting. If you plan on sending from a single IP, you will get banned.

Smtp.com provides good dedicated IPs meant for email delivery. Best thing to do is get a new IP and send about half a million emails per month / per IP.

Also, charge for the service. It's the only way to weed out actual Viagra selling spammers. Even if you keep it at $5 a year and don't get any income from it...it will be more beneficial to your users who are doing the right thing

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by mattmaroon »

I think you're on to something. There are a few sites that let you run newsletters (Constant Contact is one I've used) but they are just terrible to use.

I think you're going to find out pretty quickly you'll need to charge though, especially if you want any of your emails to actually get delivered. That's a non-trivial problem and involves actual labor to prevent spammers from using the service. Just making someone verify their identity by putting in a credit card will help a lot.

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by astine »

davidw wrote: post #7

Generally, on this site, people aren't going to complain if you promote your own stuff, "within reason". I mean, if you took the time to create it, and link to it like this, it's not a problem. Looks nicely done, although I don't feel like actually going through and creating it. One thing might be to watch out for people grabbing 'nice' URL's...

I think the spammer comment was about the fact that this is an email newsletter service, not that this is a self plug. I have a friend who works in email newsletters, we all joke that he's a spammer.

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by mike-cardwell »

davidw wrote: post #7

Generally, on this site, people aren't going to complain if you promote your own stuff, "within reason". I mean, if you took the time to create it, and link to it like this, it's not a problem. Looks nicely done, although I don't feel like actually going through and creating it. One thing might be to watch out for people grabbing 'nice' URL's...

I thought it had let me take /sitemap.xml for a moment, but it seems it strips out the dot. Looks like someone else tried to get /robots.txt and suffered the same problem

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by iworkforthem »

pud wrote: post #4

I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job. Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries. Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet a…

It's nice and all. Er... isn't just quite similar to http://letter.ly/ ? There's a subscription option to it with letter.ly ...

Re: With the risk of being called a spammer, what do you think about my new site?

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Post by kgtm »

happybuy wrote: post #5
pud wrote: post #4

I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job. Unless you're planning on making blogging your full time job, you're not going to build an audience, which means nobody will see any of your subsequent blog entries. Twitter helps...because even if I don't tweet a…

Wow... I think you undersell your previous blog. Being old enough to remember I think that Fuckedcompany.com was the Techcrunch of its time. Loved to read that site - it brought a sense of reality to the startup/web space which is probably still required to this day. For tinyletter, I like the idea however the one thing I would note is that it doesn't actually provide any sample of the type of newsletter that it woul…

And i remember that it was even mentioned in the movie August, [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0470679/ ]! The employees of the startup portrayed are being caught by the founder slacking off there, while the company is sinking as the dot com downhill commences. A rather good film, despite its 5,4 rating on IMDB...
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