Thank you so much to all of you who haven’t unsubscribed and stopped following Never Say Die Beauty during the past few months. I realize that my website problems have been going on since late May. That’s a long time!
To make matters worse, the service that used to deliver my daily blogpost to subscribers, Madmimi, went out of business on August 31. 🙄 To replace Madmimi, a blogger friend recommended BirdSend to me. I actually think the recommendation might have been an attempt at sabotage because BirdSend was the most difficult, uncustomer-friendly service to try to set up and navigate.
I received a few emails from some kind subscribers who took the time to write that my daily email wasn’t working out, because either:
- it posted the full blogpost (but without the photos) so there was no reason to go to my website, or
- it posted only a couple of sentences of the post and just left it without a “Read more” link.
In addition, I got another email from a fellow blogger who subscribes asking me if I had disabled commenting because she didn’t see it at the end. The emailed blogpost was so confusing to her that she didn’t realize she was reading a very boring-looking email version of my post, rather than being taken to my website where she could comment to her heart’s content! At that point, I finally realized I had to pull the plug on BirdSend. Forget that I already paid them for a year’s service. I am looking at $$$ with wings on them flying away! But I hope it will be worth it.
Now or maybe I should say “soon” (my application has to be approved before they will send it out), going forward, MailerLite should be emailing my posts to subscribers . I spent the afternoon trying to edit one of their templates that was laid out the way I wanted my daily mailing to look. Though the logo at the top could be a little larger, at least MailerLite lets me brand my email unlike BirdSend!
I should also let you know that my tech consultant will be moving my website from Hostgator, the unhelpful company that currently hosts my website, to the servers that are dedicated to my consultants’ clients. I am hoping it will be a better experience for me, but also for you. (Fingers crossed!) That means that my website might be down for a day or two as it moves through cyberspace to what I hope will be its permanent home. 😀
Anyway, thanks for reading and for sticking with me. I truly appreciate it! xoxoxo
I continue to receive your emails! And I’m so glad!
Thank you so much, Cynthia xoxo I am continuing to have problems with the emails with my posts. I liked the email that came today, but instead of a key visual/photo from each of the 3 posts, I got a “?”. But if I viewed the email in my browser, the photos were there. Go figure! My tech guy wants me to move to yet another email delivery service, so if he can set it up for me, maybe I will do it.
Hope all’s well with you! Have a good weekend <3
I got your email just now! I will never stop visiting here! I am so sorry you have had so much awfulness!
Thank you, Gabrielle, for letting me know!<3 Do you remember when you opened the email, were you able to see 4 different photos: roses at the intro, Thank you at the first post, the O&J polish bottle, and the b. glen bottle? I did a live chat with a support person at MailerLite tonight, and she said she could see all 4 photos in the version she sent herself via Gmail. She thought the problem was with my Apple Mail settings. So I wondered what other people saw?
Yes, I could see all four. The email looked great, actually.
Thank you xoxo
Hi, Allison – so sorry for the horrible trouble you’ve been having and so glad that you aren’t giving up! I think the good thing is that you have now found a new technical professional who can help you. And in the end, I hope that your new hosting service, mail delivery, etc., are improvements in many ways. You’re handling all this so well! Thanks for continuing to be there for us all – Angie, http://www.YourTrueSelfBlog.com
Thank you so much, Angie. It has been and still is a struggle! This has been going on since the end of May. I’ll be lucky if I have any subscribers left, 😉