Introducing the New Pajama Professional Newsletter

photo credit: Paul-in-London

I have to admit that in my year and a half as an blogger, I haven’t focused much on building a list. When I first started blogging, I signed up to aWeber (affiliate link) and put a sign-up form on Pajama Professional. The sign-up form never left, but I cancelled my aWeber subscription along time ago. I signed up for a free autoresponder. I figured that since I don’t plan on milking a list for profits I didn’t need to spend $20 to maintain it.

By cancelling my aWeber subscription I lost my list of over 200 people. And, as it turned out, I never could quite get that free autoresponder to work.

Next, I decided I could host a list on my own server. Except my servers aren’t really mine and I have them maxed as it is. I’m currently doing that whole “add-on domain” business and my websites barely have any breathing room. I was also reminded of the time I tried to do a mass mailing from the email account hosted on my servers. Because I pay for the rock-bottom hosting account – soon to change, reseller here I come – I ended up crashing the servers hosting not only my sites, but a few other customers’ sites as well. Luckily, Quality Host Online understood that I was a newbie and, with my promise never to do it again, fixed my sites and never mentioned my snafu again.

And, yes, that’s an affiliate link I have been with QHO for over a year now and they are nothing buy helpful. Seriously, last weekend when my site was slow – keep in mind this is at about 2 am on a Saturday – they were having me send pings and tracerts to try to determine the issue. I have literally never had to wait longer than half an hour for a useful response. I don’t mean that “Thanks for the ticket, we’ll get back to you when we’ve finished this round of World of Warcraft.” I mean, a real answer from a real person who then really answers me back. It’s excellent. Okay, enough about that.

So, once I’d decided against hosting the list myself I just sort of dropped the whole thing. I left a (broken) sign-up link in prime real estate on Pajama Professional and sort of forgot about it. Until the last week.

You see, I am in the process of developing a totally free, totally cool course that will help people make money online. I know how hard it is to remember to revisit a blog since there are so many out there. So it turns out that I really do need an email list so I can keep those interested in this ecourse informed on the progress.

Since I’d loved their service before – and missed it in my absence – I signed up for aWeber again. Now I have a bit of rebuilding to do.

Sign Up for the New Pajama Professional Newsletter

Over on the right-hand sidebar you will see a little place for you to put your name and email list. When you sign up, you will be sent a confirmation email and you’ll need to click the link in that email to complete your sign-up. What’s in it for you? Well, I’m no good at sending out regular emails so you won’t get bombarded. Also, I rarely promote anything so you won’t get sales sh!t clogging your inbox – at least not from me. The purpose of the list is to:

• Let subscribers know when there is a particularly important or interest new post.
• Keep those who are interested up-to-date on the status of my upcoming FREE! information product/ecourse.
• Get a clearer idea of who actually cares what I have to say.

And that’s it. I know some people really count on their lists as their bread and butter, but that’s just not me. I’m not a hard-sell person and I make my money elsewhere. I may occassionally tell you about paid products or services, but I promise that, just like on the Pajama Professional blog, I won’t recommend that you buy anything that I haven’t tried and love.

So please just take a few seconds and sign up to my list. Later this week I plan to do a full article on the joys of list building. Thanks for your support and interest!