How to collect subscribers emails to use them for an email marketing?

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  evgenygoogle · Member · Mar 8, 2017 at 10:57 pm

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  How to collect subscribers emails to use them for an email marketing?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2017 at 11:00 pm

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  You can create a contact page https://en.support.wordpress.com/forms/contact-form/ and boldly state that anyone who enters their email address there will be spammed with ie. sent marketing materials.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2017 at 11:02 pm

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  Be aware that when people subscribe to receive blog posts that’s all their email address can be used for. As there are those who disrespect us and flood us with crap we did not wish to receive, many savvy bloggers use throwaway email addresses for blogging, and reserve their personal email addresses for friend and family use only. That means they cannot be identified personally.

  Your wordpress.com subscribers are found here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers

  Note that the title there includes Publicize followers from social networks. https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/

  Your email only subscribers are here https://wordpress.com/my-stats/?blog_subscribers&type=email

  IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no mass mailing feature here at WordPress.com. Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they can control the frequency of receipt. You cannot subscribe for them or control the frequency of receipt of your posts by them.

  When followers or commenters provide an email address for a specific purpose you cannot use it for any other purpose. In fact doing that in Canada is against the law.

  You can create a Subscribe page and clearly state on it that you intend to harvest email addresses if that’s what you want to do. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  You can add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedback as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/