Email subscription option is must have for every blogger to
offer on their blog. We have many paid services like Mailchimp, Aweber and so
on. Though nothing can beat Feedburner when you are looking for a free option
to send Email Newsletter. Though problem with feed-burner is, they have not
updated or introduced any new feature from many months.
Here I’m suggesting few new features which will improve
Feedburner drastically:
Reminder Email for unconfirmed Subscription:
Biggest problem with Feedburner email subscription is you
can’t send reminder Email officially from feed burner interface. And when any
user tried to subscribe to your Email newsletter but forget to click on
confirmation Email, he will never receive any Email and your stats will show
another unconfirmed Email subscriber. This is really annoying as manually
managing them is not easy. If Feedburner will introduce this feature to send
confirmation reminder again after certain days like Aweber, this will be a huge
plus point.
User Management:
User control and management is first thing which I will be
looking into my Emailmarketing tool. That’s the reason I’m paying for Aweber
and using it as one of Email marketing software. How about an option to search
for users, delete users and temporary block users? How about an option to select multiple users
at the same time and perform action?
Easy subscribe/unsubscribe service for readers:
How about a common interface for readers where they can see
which all Email newsletter they are subscribed to? Where they can select to
activate, deactivate subscription. And based on past subscription, suggested
email newsletters, user should subscribe to. This will eventually profit all 3
of us. Admin, readers and Feedburner.
Email Newsletter:
In WordPress we can use certain hacks to send Email to only
Feed subscribers but if Feedburner wish to expands its boundaries, they need to
start offering broadcast feature. Where we can send Email newsletter to only
Feed subscribers. This will cut down the need of our paid email marketing
tool. May be as a free service, they can
limit it to certain number and can also offer a pro service of Feedburner,
where unlimited broadcast is possible. Imagine as a webmaster, this will help
you to grow your Email list tremendously.
Email list option:
For any blog which may be divided into different segment. (Lots
of different categories). I would love to create Email list based on interest.
May be an Email list for people who love contest and free giveaways, another
one for WordPress lovers. By using WordPress condition tag I can achieve this,
but then I have to burn different feeds.
Custom design Templates:
All newbie use Feedburner Email subscription service from
day1. Though many of them are not good with coding and designing. How about if
feed burner will start offering custom template for Email subscription and that
will enhance the look and feel of subscription box. More call to action and
more Email subscribers for you.
I hope we will see an updated version of Feedburner soon and
Feed burner guys will notice this short post. May be a wakeup call.
Though there could be more suggestions and I would love to
know your views and ideas on how Feedburner can improve its service.
Source.......shoutmeloud
Diyyan Mehboob, Professional blogger in Pakistan. Started blog to complete my passion about blogging, Helping readers all around the world to solve problems about Wordpress, SEO and Online Earnings.
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