May 17, 2006
Updates for FeedBurner Email
It's been almost a month since we launched FeedBurner Email. The aforementioned system's chief architect returned from vacation, took one look what the kids had done to the place, and immediately set about restoring order. That said, we have appreciated the positive response to this service from our publishers, long-timers and newcomers alike, and today we fulfilled the number one request: subscriber list management. Now, in the Email Subscriptions service area for your email-enabled feed, you may:
- View a sortable list of all of your subscribers and their status: active, unverified (they requested a subscription but have not yet activated it), or bounced (their address doesn't work)
- Export this list in Microsoft Excel or Plain Text (CSV) format
- Manage individual subscriber activation status
It's been almost a month since we launched FeedBurner Email. The aforementioned system's chief architect returned from vacation, took one look what the kids had done to the place, and immediately set about restoring order. That said, we have appreciated the positive response to this service from our publishers, long-timers and newcomers alike, and today we fulfilled the number one request: subscriber list management. Now, in the Email Subscriptions service area for your email-enabled feed, you may:
- View a sortable list of all of your subscribers and their status: active, unverified (they requested a subscription but have not yet activated it), or bounced (their address doesn't work)
- Export this list in Microsoft Excel or Plain Text (CSV) format
- Manage individual subscriber activation status
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Could you also consider creating a "landing page" for people like me having hosted blogs on providers like Wordpress.com which do not allow forms / HTML coding?
This is the only reason I am using Feedblitz for my email feed right now.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
I'll second the landing page (with optional redirect back to the owner's site for people who don't know _blank). I'd also like to know if there will be reminders send periodically to try and purge the list of Unverifieds.
One option we're considering is allowing subscription via a simple text link -- no form code required. I think this would sidestep the need for a separate landing page and instead allow the entire subscription process to take place on the form we currently pop up. Some publishers have even requested the ability to publicize a "subscribe by email" link in their HTML email signatures. It's much, much easier to share a link this way vs. an HTML form, for example.
Yes!!
I was waiting for this tool, and really needed, you know how it's important having such a possibility.
I think Feedblitz is also cute, but you guys are the best!
a simple one button subscribe that bundles your RSS feed with a free reader for Outlook is available as a FeedBurner Flare. www.inclue.com/faq has the details. :)
get it up and running in under 5 minutes.
I'm currently using Feedblitz, because they have custom (payed )formatting options. It's still very obvious that it's a hosted service though. I really would love a service with weekly emails and real custom templates.
Any hope for being able to set the time the email goes out? We update in the early morning so when the feed email goes out it's about 22 hours old.
Your products continue to rock.
Joost and bcseagle: Our next set of additions to FeedBurner Email should give you more control over email timing and custom formatting. It's not there now, and we realize that's a strong limitation for some publishers, but we do promise to get to the next batch of features soon.
I appreciate the hard work from the Feedburner crew a lot, it makes RSS publication easy and the email service is almost too good to be true. Having custom templates would make it the ideal platform for having your website's content spread out to the subscribers.
Keep up the great work Matt & Co :)
Great stuff.
Have been waiting for this since you shipped out feedburner email.
Hey great service guys. I love the email subs because it allows some family members who only have email at work, and filtered net access to still be kept in the loop....thanks for getting this womens words out into the world!
Just tried it out and looks clean and simple. I'd recommend.
Hi Matt and team,
I really like the Feedburner Email!
Just a little question (mabye I'm blind to find it..): The first email with the confirmation link that people get after they subscribed, the content ends with only "Cheers, " and I want to put my name there. Is that possible?
Cheers, Cola =)
The 'Subscriber Management' is simple and easy. Great update!
Hello Cola,
Our next round of feature upgrades for Email will include the ability to completely customize the confirmation email, using whatever language and text content you choose. This should go a long way towards providing a more seamless, consistent communication experience from registration through subscription. Unfortunately there is no option for customizing the current confirmation email, but we have heard your feedback and know this is an important option to offer. Thanks for the comment!
I find it very important to allow us to customize the email that gets sent to validate the subscription. That or being able to manually validate the subscribers (I believe it is possible to do this in feedblitz)...
Im having a real problem with the validation, for example my main feed has almost 200 people who asked to receive the updates by mail, but only 50 or so have confirmed (none has bounced). This is mainly (i think) because my readers are spanish speakers and dont catch up on the whole process that needs to be done to start receiving the updates. Sooo...well Im wasting a lot of readers because of this.
Other than that I believe is a great service and I hope you keep up improving it as you said.
Thanks
NOlo,
We hear you and understand your frustration -- the ability to customize the welcome/activation message with our service is indeed planned for development soon.
Actually, I'd give up random body parts to have control over Email Subscriptions through the Management API. That's the last little piece of the puzzle before I can set my dev working on a custom FeedBurner module for Drupal. :)
MJ
I meant "Services API". *bangs head on desk*
Anyway, keep up the great work!
MJ