How do I set up a give away incentive to encourage new followers?

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  alwaysquilting · Member · Jul 22, 2012 at 4:15 am

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  I posted this question a couple of days ago but think I must have sent it to the wrong spot as I haven’t had any responses.

  How can I send a message to subscriber/followers AFTER they have confirmed that they chose to follow my blog?

  I want to offer a free E-Book to subscribers but can only see an option for a single email message asking subscribers/followers to confirm that they opted to receive email messages.

  Once they have confirmed I want to be able to automatically send them a second email with the link to download the E-Book.
  Jenny Scott
  Blog url: http://alwaysquilting.wordpress.com/

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  hellocolby · Member · Jul 22, 2012 at 4:32 am

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  As far as I know (if been a WordPress.com blogger for 3 years this October) there is no way to find a subscriber’s email address unless you manually typed in there email and sent them a request to follow your blog! I suggest to create a page with a title, (along the lines of) “Free E-Book with Superscription” and have a form were they put there name, username and email.
  Hope that helps!

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  alwaysquilting · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 4:16 am

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  Thank you for responding.

  I was hoping for a way to set up a second auto-responder that would send the subscriber/follower an email after they had confirmed that they had been the person to subscribe to the blog.

  That may end up being what I have to do manually.

  PS: You are meant to be able to down load the subscriber contact details as a .csv file. I haven’t tried this but it was one of the response that I found as I searched this Forum

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  auxclass · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 4:24 am

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  Caution on the use of a subscriber list – people sign up to be notified of new Posts – not spammed by the blog owner – in many countries using the subscriber email for ANYTHING other than subscriptions is illegal – the only legal way is to have a contact form for people to request the free ebook when they subscribe – yes that is two steps –

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  alwaysquilting · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 5:02 am

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  Thank you for this reminder. I had already thought about using a message in the post that I used to announce the E-book offer telling current subscribers to request the link to the book.

  What I am really looking for is a way that I can send the link to NEW subscribers. A four step subscriber /follow process:
  1. the reader subscribes
  2. They receive the automated message from wordpress asking them to confirm that they did subscribe
  3. They respond to this to opt in / confirm their subscription
  4. A second automated email is sent saying “thank you here is the link to your Free E-book”

  I’ve seen this on other websites/blogs. I can set this up on my website but really want to use it on my blog to build the readership.