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JoyceHumphreys

I am looking for an alternative to Mailchimp. It is closing its free accounts. I need something similar but would like to find an open source if there is one. I write and send a weekly church newsletter to an audience of about 50 people. There are occasional additional newsletters mid weeek. I would be grateful for any advice or recommendations please? #newsletters #newsletter

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Micah Ilbery :sloth_coffee:

I don't wanna be "old man on the internet" BUT RSS feeds are great for project updates, blogs, newsletters, and stuff like that. We really should all band together and use them widely. Make it a thing that everyone does. I don't want to hand my email out to everyone and clutter up my inbox. I don't want to have to remember to check your page every day for updates, and I don't have the time for all that either.

If what you are doing is about getting the word out or talking about whatever you're passion is or having whatever you create out there to actually be seen by real people, to be useful or interesting to them, put it in a feed. If you are just using the content for engagement farming or bringing clicks to your page or to get eyes on ads, then I really don't want to read it anyway I guess.

#RSS#NewsLetters#ProjectUpdates
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Robert Kingett

I love my email client because I've set all my emails to Plain text view and haven't looked back since. I also never have to see badly formatted newsletters again! Now, I get emails that say this, which is honestly more than fine by me! I'd rather get this then some badly formatted email.

However, your email software can't display HTML emails. You can view the newsletter by clicking here:

URL GOES HERE.

Much cleaner reading experience now!

#Email#PlainText#Newsletter
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Matthew Reinbold

More from therebooting piece:

"The inbox is now as crowded as the Facebook feed once was, and publishers who built their businesses purely on newsletters are starting to face the same challenges that upended the traffic arbitrage models of the 2010s."

As a (niche, bespoke, backwater) newsletter writer since 2015, I have to admit that the statements match my observations, but that is still damn depressing.

#newsletters#writingLife
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Matthew Reinbold

Similar sentiment on therebooting this morning:

"Newsletters are a commodity. The number of newsletters is growing faster than the number of readers. Platforms like Beehiv have democratized access to sophisticated tooling, but most newsletters lack true audience affinity."

"-newsletters are a channel, not a business."

*sigh Creatives are drowning in channels. The question is how those not gifted with omnipresence get paid.

therebooting.com/the-newslette #socialMedia #newsletters

The Rebooting · The newsletter bubbleA conversation with Workweek's Adam Ryan
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