I'm working on my blog and currently I have a feature for a newsletter where people basically enter their email address and wait for the news letter. As my blog is new, I don't want to have too many expenses such as a mailing service such as Aweber. I'd rather want to build the mailing list and wait untill I have enough revenue so I can use that service and start sending the newsletter. My question is, how can I 'store' those addresses and use those for my newsletter? I've read things about Feedburner (which I currently only use for my RSS feed) but I don't really know what it does for a mailing list.
Why not just save them in a word file until you need them, then input them into whatever program or site you're going to use once ready to send out your news letter? Or is there something else you need to do that I'm missing?
If you own your own domain, use the cpanel (assuming you have that too) and install one of the many mailing lists. Free. Then you can begin to email them whenever you wish. They all have opt in/opt out and are full of the legelese included with each email. Just don't abuse it. Oh. And be sure you have a host who won't shut you down for one spam complaint. You can also use one of the many free newsletter sites on the internet. Stephen C
This is a legit newsletter, no spam at all. Saving them in a Word file isn't a good option, I think. Let's say a visitor enters their email to subsribe to the newsletter. Where does that address get stored? I've read you can export a mailing list from Feedburner but currently those are the only people who have subscribed through RSS via email. I can't use those, right? That would be considered spam as they didn't leave their email for the newsletter. Is there a way to create and manage these email lists in Feedburner: 1 for RSS and 1 for the newsletter?
I recently signed up for bravenet. They offer free tools, including a free mailing list. The free limit is 500 subscribers, but by that point you can either upgrade their service, or go with the more popular services out there.
You can download from simplescripts and install free email list software to your server. It's very easy to do it and manage to capture optin emails from your blog.