Forums are a great place to get feedback for ideas and also put your site and service in front of new audiences that you can help.

Good luck with the newsletter, I’m sure you know a lot more than you give yourself credit!

This is a great post. Congratulations. I’m currently working up the courage to create a newsletter for my growing number of readers… but I need some inspiration and more courage that I can deliver decent content in the newsletter.

Another place you can leave trails is in niche-specific Nings and similar forums. I’ve spread the word about my site in these places successfully.

Thanks for your clear and crisp articles.
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I didn’t know you were expected to jump into the comments of your own guest post so left it quite a while. I thought I was being rude but realise that readers appreciate you being around to thank them and further the debate.

The pop-up boxes are tricky because I’ve heard they get great opt ins but there is the annoyance factor.

Thanks for your comment.

Superb post — I wish I had written it

I especially like the point about sticking around and interacting after writing a guest post.

To encourage visitors to sign up to receive my content via e-mail, I use a screen that appears after 1 minute. I’m not totally crazy about the method, because the potential for annoyance is high, but it does a great job of letting readers know that you want them.

Larry