Subscribe to Categories on RealityTVFan.org

Remember, RealityTVFan.org has a really neat new feature that allows you to subscribe to the specific categories that are of interest to you and recieve email notification when new posts are added to them. This means you don’t have to keep checking several times a day to see if your favourite show has been added yet, just sit back and wait for the link to be sent directly to you.

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Zookoda - Email marketing application

As you know, I have recently announced that you can now subscribe to the categories to receive email notification on new posts here at RealityTVFan.org, this was something that used to be a feature several months ago but got vetoed by my webhost - ever since then I have been looking for an alternative way to do it, or a different script.

Then, funnily enough on the very same day that I discovered the script I am using now I came across an email marketing application called Zookoda, which got me all excited - after reading about all the features, and the fact it’s my favourite sort of price, free, I had decided that if my webhost didn’t let me use the new script I finally had an alternative be happy to replace it with.

Zookoda allows for you to send an email update of all your new posts for the time period you select, a day, week, month etc to everyone who subscribes. The emails come as a proper fancy schmancy newsletter that you design on the site, they are totally customisable so that you can have them match the look and feel of your site.

As well as that, one of my favourite aspects of Zookodas service is that as the administrator of the mailing list you have access to reports about your subscribers. The reports let you know what is going on with your list, how many people are signing up to it? how many are unsubscribing? how many aren’t getting the emails for some reason? With this information you can work on improving things and really mark your successes.

Oh yeah, and finally…Zookoda has made sure it is totally anti-spam compliant and covers having features such as ‘double opt-in’, which is a standard feature a lot of web hosts require. So you’ll have no issues like I did, with your webhost slapping your wrist over using something you shouldn’t.

It’s almost a shame I discovered the other script at the same time and I won’t personally be using Zookoda, but hopefully this post will be helpful to others searching for a solution as I was for a long time. Enjoy.

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Subscribe to Categories is back.

Those of you who have been visiting RealityTVFan.org for a while now will probably remember that you used to be able to subscribe to any categories you liked on the site, and receive an email notification each time a new post is added - but unfortunately after a few months of use my webhost informed me it did not comply with their anti spam policy and I would have to stop using it right away, so I did.

Well it’s now several months later and I have finally found an alternative script that will do the same thing, that does comply with their policy thanks to a very friendly coder tweaking his script a little for me, hurrah.

Here’s how it works, head on over to this page and enter your email address into the box, make sure subscribe is selected and then hit submit - you’ll get an email that will contain a link you need to click in order to confirm your subscription and this is also the place where you are able to select the categories you want - by default you’ll be subscribed to all categories except, Buzz, Private and Test - so if you don’t want notification about all new posts to the site, be sure to change that. Then whenever a new post is made in one of your chosen categories you’ll get an email right to your inbox to let you know. Each email also contains a link that leads to a page that allows you to either change your categories or unsubscribe entirely.

If you have any problems or suggestions and the like, please do let me know

So what are you waiting for?

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