Capturing readers' emails
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Can I add a way to capture readers emails by offering a downloadable free gift?
Blog url: http://gemmauttingdotcom.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Yes. You can set up a customized contact form http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a static page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ or in a text widget http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/ and above that form you can clearly state that you are asking for those who wish to have their email address “captured” to use it.
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We WordPress.com bloggers can set up email subscriptions by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
Your site stats page displays how many followers you have, who your followers are, as well as how many people are subscribed to post comments on your site.
Dashboard > Site stats > Total, ‘Followers’ , Shares
http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/#totals-followers-sharesClick “blog” and when that page opens click “email followers”
http://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=emailNote 1: You cannot obtain any information that personally identifies any of your followers. This is a privacy issue. What’s required for registering here is an email address only. That email address is for many of us a throwaway email address.
Note 2: This may sound “heavy” but I think it’s important to recognize that when an email address is provided for a specific purpose, such as for receiving posts from a blog or submitting a comment to a blog, that is the only purpose it is being provided for, and any additional use of it is unauthorized. For example in Canada it’s illegal to use an email address for any purpose other than the specific purpose it was provided for.
Note 3: If you want to set up for high powered email marketing then your best bet is to hire a web host and set up your own WordPress.org install. You can read the differences between WordPress.com free hosted blogs and WordPress.org installs for self hosting here > http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
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Dear Timethief,
Thanks – this is useful.Just followed your link – do you help folks like me get their sites up and running in the way they want? I feel I may need to pay for some help…
Thanks!
Gemma -
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