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…

If you’ve spent a few days now away from your computer (and your inbox), you might now open email only to find a flood of messages from businesses you’ve purchased promoting specials, with many of them arriving just this morning.

If so, that might have struck you as a coincidence, but it may not have been.

Cyber Monday, a term coined in 2005 by Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, is ostensibly the day when many consumers return to work after the Black Friday weekend, only to surf online for more holiday deals.

This year, more businesses are jumping on the bandwagon to take advantage of this potential rush. So, should we join them and send out messages to our own subscribers?

Somewhere in the back of my mind I was waiting for it –the first Christmas song of the year. This time I was at a local coffee shop (OK, it was the local Starbucks).

John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Christmas (War Is Over)” made it through about 10 seconds of play. Then, the stereo went silent for about another 10 and we were back to quiet, singer-songwriter cafe music.

From a back room I heard someone scream “It’s too early for Christmas!”. It might seem odd at first, but this got me to thinking about email marketing and how we schedule our messages.

Sometimes we have to wonder what causes a subscriber to delete our messages instead of reading them. Maybe they don’t connect with the reader’s interests. Or, maybe they’ve gone with a competitor and just haven’t unsubscribed yet.

There are several reasons we can guess at, but few are more troublesome than the idea of the subscriber simply not recognizing the sender or the fact that they’d requested information in the first place.

It’s frustrating, and it seems to happen all to commonly. Fortunately, it’s easily preventable. Let’s take at easy-to-implement ways to ensure your subscribers remember you and their subscription to your campaigns.