July 6, 2011
There are a lot of blogs and websites on the Internet that have a subscription list, where you can sign up to receive a newsletter. Maybe you’ve even considered offering such a subscriber system on your own website, but it seems far too expensive and much too complicated to install on your own server. Enter PHPList, a free solution.
November 30, 2010
Regardless of what you may have heard, email is not dead. It’s still a viable way to deliver content to people and a lot of companies still use it heavily. In most cases, however, creating your own email newsletter can be difficult and even costly. It’s this reason that a lot of us choose to [...]
October 14, 2010
A geek typically is an intelligent individual that knows everything about some kind of technology. Aside from this very friendly definition, there is also the notion that geeks are socially inept with a bad taste in fashion. However, during recent years technology and being a geek has become fashionable. Along with this trend, geeky fashion [...]
October 3, 2010
How often do you buy software? It turns out, with most MakeUseOf readers, that we buy software less than once per year. With MakeUseOf readers, 3% buy software every week, while 4% buy every two weeks. 7% buy software every month and another 6% buy software only every three months. The majority of people were [...]
September 22, 2010
Newsletters in all their forms (paper, email, website) are effective marketing tools for businesses and organizations to communicate their products, services, and activities. Using principles of graphic design, some basic knowledge of HTML, and software like Word, Apple’s Pages or Adobe InDesign, you can produce a quality newsletter based on one of many high quality newsletter [...]
August 17, 2010
An antivirus program and a firewall are indispensable tools to keep your data safe and your computer running smoothly. However, no matter how careful you are, new computer viruses and malware find the most peculiar ways into your system. Hackers can exploit holes in your software, you could run into a novel virus before the [...]
July 22, 2010
One of the things that I’ve been meaning to do ever since I started my blog is to offer readers a monthly or biweekly newsletter. Newsletters are great for a lot of reasons. They give you a one-on-one connection with your readers and a useful list of their email addresses that they’ve entrusted you with. [...]
June 3, 2010
MakeUseOf has a very cool newsletter that I love periodically receiving (check near the top of the homepage and sign up for yourself). They include some of the top posts, some tech deals and even some links not previously mentioned on the site. Check it out! For some time now I have been thinking about [...]
October 15, 2009
I am a big fan of RSS but I know of many people who live inside their email inbox and refuse to come out. Some people prefer the simplicity of email and some just don’t want to come out of their comfort zone. Which is fine. As I always say, the world would be a very boring [...]
October 14, 2009
Anyone who runs an organization or indeed a successful blog or website will at some point consider distributing a newsletter. The old fashioned way to create a newsletter is to go down to the local printers and ask for a quote. Then get a neighbourhood kid with a bicycle to distribute them for you. Oh [...]
