Newsletter Scheduling…

TBH I haven’t ever blogged, regularly, enough to work out what a Newsletter is – the most I have ever done is to get Mail Chimp to send an email to me ( only subscriber) to tell me I had remembered how to use the thing. However, things have fallen into place having, as someone prompted me yesterday ( Orna Ross Blog Post https://www.ornaross.com/the-most-creative-answer/?fbclid=IwAR3WUsU59cPeKxhuP8A-mMyk5NWgkoefM1cTg1T6euFhIl_Kn-NbKN-6S98    Re Living with the question a while) So, I ventured to log in to Mail Chimp and change – for myself – the delivery dates of the ‘campaigns’ – setting various time spans leaving me free to get on and use the blogs and know that I am not bombarding – my self at least –  subscribers with email each time I do.  The worst part of this, for me, is that calling things ‘Newsletters’ and ‘Campaigns’  – at my stage of this ‘business’ feels horribly pretentious – and as I still do’t have a product to sell so it always feels too early – even though that is the most common piece of advice I hear – followed by, ‘of course Blogging is dead’.  Well, dead or not, I have these things and I might as well use them for what ever I will do regularly rather than looking at them – unused – waiting to do something other folk tell me I should, because it ‘worked’ for them – last year.

Having scheduled the ‘campaigns’ I then entered them as ‘publication dates’ on my paper calendar and  my hard copy desk diary and my Google calendar. I feel I can do what I like now – and anyone who finds the Blogs and wants to sign up will get a newsletter of what I am doing either once a month or weekly – depending which Blog – and if I haven’t posted then no mail will be sent but if I have spent time blogging everyday they won’t get pissed off with an avalanche of email  as I find my way around.

Next: Editing and Redrafting begins…