The Good
Currently there are 3 ways to get the content I put up here on Art Palaver. The obvious way is to directly visit www.artpalaver.com and the other two ways involve using Art Palaver’s RSS feed. If you use an RSS reader then you can get these posts delivered directly to your reader. And if you’re not in the habit of using a reader you can sign up to have every post delivered to your inbox. But I know for many people these methods are not ideal.
The Bad
Directly visiting a site either involves always typing in the domain name or bookmarking the domain. Typing in the domain name involves the challenge of remembering the domain especially when people like me use strange and seldom used words like palaver. And bookmarking comes with organization challenges, it can be hard to keep all those sites you like straight in your browser.
I think an RSS reader is great but I know many people just see it as another thing they have to check when they sit down at their computer. Which is just one of the many reasons RSS readers go unused by the masses.
The RSS email option I know is the best for many but it has its downsides too. If a blog has a high posting frequency that can mean a lot of emails hitting your inbox. And the pressure to read everyone of those emails can often cause people to reach for the unsubscribe button.
Seeking Balance
All this gives me reason to offer another option, the monthly email newsletter. This option offers just the highlights from the previous month on Art Palaver as well as a few extras that will only be found in the newsletter. And to kick off the launch of the monthly Art Palaver newsletter I am going to give away an artist web presence package that includes a domain name, custom blog/website, as well as a year of hosting to any artist that signs up for the newsletter in the month of September. I’ll have all the details of that give-a-way in a separate post.
So click here to sign up now or use the form on ArtPalaver.com.
Live to create,
P.S. There are actually many ways to keep up with this blog or any blog using tools like Twitter and social bookmarking. But that is for a post on another day.
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