Uploading subscribers
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I have a bunch of email addresses (in Excel) of subscribers I had to an email based blog – ie I’d write an email and paste these addresses into the “bcc” field in an email – that’s how I used to blog. Now I’m using wordpress.com and would like to get all of those emails into my Subscribers. How do I do that?
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Hello there,
I am sorry but there is no means of doing what you want to do here at WordPress.COM. There is also no mass mailing feature here at WordPress.com. Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they alone can subscribe and control the frequency of receipt. You cannot subscribe for them or control the frequency of receipt of your posts by them.
What follows is a summary of what can be done on any WordPress.COM hosted blog.
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. That said, 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 feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/
You can create a sign up page on MailChimp. If you want to use MailChimp with your WordPress.com site you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on MailChimp and providing it to your visitors. Here’s the info from MailChimp Support http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog
You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:
These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.
See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/
We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.
Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/
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