I am considering using Mailchimp, but not sure if I need to. Am I building an email list on WP?

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  jenanita01 · Member · Feb 28, 2015 at 1:54 pm

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  I understand that as a writer, I need to build an email list. I thought that as I have followers on WP, I already was, but apparently not.
  Can you shed some light, on what is turning out to be a nightmare for me?

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  pmciano · Member · Feb 28, 2015 at 2:53 pm

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  @jenanita01

  Visitors to your site can follow your content via email:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/#how-to-follow-blogs

  Also, you can view you email followers via your Site Stats:

  Jetpack Stats

  However, if you want to create a custom newsletter, you might be interested in using the MailChimp service:

  http://mailchimp.com/

  If you’d like more information on that, please let us know.

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  jenanita01 · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 11:00 am

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  Yes please, I would love more information about using Mailchimp on WP.

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  alexjgustafson · Member · Mar 1, 2015 at 10:46 pm

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  Most folks on WordPress.com using MailChimp will create an Image Widget that links to your signup form URL. This method uses the MailChimp-hosted version of your list’s signup form, instead of the embedded version. The HTML embed code that Mailchimp provides makes use of the iframe tag, and that won’t work on WordPress.com.