A lot of you have asked about this one, so I’m really excited to show it off!

Many bloggers send email newsletters to their subscribers to keep them up-to-date on the latest posts.

While bloggers have embraced our Blog Broadcast tool, they’ve pointed out a couple of things they’d like to see us add to make it even more powerful.

Today, I’m happy to announce that we’ve answered by far the most popular feature request for this tool: advanced scheduling features.

Let me show you how it works with a short video.

Scheduling Your Blog’s Email Newsletter: What You Can Do

Used to be, you chose how many posts you wanted to appear in each email, and whenever there were that many new posts, we sent your newsletter.

Some of you said you’d rather send once per day, or per week, regardless of however many new posts you’d made. Others said you wanted to send at a certain time of day, regardless of what time you were posting new content.

Makes sense to us.

You can now:

Schedule which day/s of the week — or which dates of the month — you want to send your email newsletter

Choose what time of day you want your blog readers to get your email

Want to send on Tuesdays and Fridays? Or on the 15th and 31st of the month? No problem! You can choose up to 4 frequencies per blog.

With these new scheduling options, you can tailor your blog’s email newsletter to reach your subscribers as frequently as you want.

See The New Scheduling Options In Action

In this short video, I show you how to easily customize when you send your blog’s newsletter:

RSS Subscribers: Click to watch the video.

Pretty cool, no?

This is just one of a number of enhancements we’ll be making to the Blog Broadcast tool. Stay tuned…

Quick post today for those of you who are running blogs yourselves.

(Not yet using a blog to grow your business? Learn more about how blogging and email marketing go hand-in-hand.)

Today I came across a list of 16 ways to expand your blog’s reach.

I’m particularly fond of strategy #6 Establish an Email Newsletter:

Newsletters are great for monetization and are an easy way to keep certain readers (those not familiar with RSS) close to your weblog. When combined with landing pages, they work better alongside PPC advertising when it comes to capturing leads.

but the author lists plenty of other good ideas, too. Definitely worth a read.

Want to learn more about blogs? Check out the recording of our live video seminar on business blogging.

Between our blog, knowledge base, and live seminars, we offer an abudance of information covering a wide range of email best practices from different angles and through different mediums.

The depth and detail of these resources is expansive, and we’re continuously adding to them.

As much as we’d love to have each and every reader browse through it all, there’s so much information published that even now, it wouldn’t be possible to get through it all in an afternoon or possibly even a day.

If that were our only option, we might consider putting a hold on publishing new information, focusing on organizing and pushing the older information while it’s relevant. Fortunately, it isn’t…

Efficiently Leveraging Information

Like we preach in these resources, information needs to be provided in a consumable way for prospects, customers, or anyone who finds it if it is to be effective to promote the goals of our business.

Often times, this is where technologies like email and RSS come into play, so that information can be pushed to subscribers in “digestible bits” they can easily consume.

That’s why we offer both email and rss subscriptions to our blog and why, as an email service, we provide an rss to email feature for our customers.

A Brief Guide to Email Best Practices

So, pushing information over time is beneficial, especially when detail and depth are indispensible, as is often the case when we’re trying to educate our audiences.

But sometimes a resource summing up and abstracting the most important pieces of a larger whole is useful, especially for newcomers who may feel overwhelmed by an abundance of starting points.

A new article in our Knowledge Base collects some of the best and most important email marketing practices we’ve been writing and talking about for years.

  Read the Email Marketing Best Practices article

New Years is just a few days away, so it’s a great time to make some resolutions about our email campaigns.

Use this article to focus on what’s most important for your campaigns.

Little known fact: there’s an RSS feed available for the Knowledge Base that provides updates on new articles as they are published.

Want to know more about blogging and how you can use it to boost your business? Do you have some free time this Thursday?

Our Education Team has been blogging for some time now and would like to share their experiences and knowledge on building successful blogs with your business’ goals in mind during a free, live video session.

Sit down with them for a discussion of business blogging, plus a walk through on how to easily set one up and use email and RSS to build a regular readership.

Blogging To Boost Your Marketing Results

Thursday, November 1, 2007

12:00 – 1:00PM ET

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What does this seminar cover?

Blogging is an increasingly popular way of communicating with your current and potential customers and helps establish you as an authority in your field. It also helps you add search engine-friendly content to your site, increasing your online visibility.

More…By integrating your AWeber account with popular blogging platform Blogger, you can:

* Convert occasional blog visitors to subscribers
* Notify subscribers when you’ve posted new content
* Drive your subscribers back to your blog

Integrating AWeber with Blogger – Step By Step

Blogs are a great, easy way to publish information in a timely
manner. As a result, their popularity has skyrocketed.

However, to make blogs a really useful tool, you have to get
people to come back and read regularly.

AWeber customers create a tremendous amount of new, very valuable content sent to their opt-in subscribers every day. As publication methods evolve and subscribers become more savvy they desire to have access to this content thru multiple mediums. AWeber strives to lead these trends and has released features enabling RSS/XML feeds along with linkable web [...]