Lensmastery by Linda

Did you know you can offer a subscription option for your lens visitors to receive your SquidCasts in email? Recently I wrote a lens to explain this: Offer Email Subscriptions to Your SquidCasts.

In my lens I give step-by-step directions for setting up these emails using a SquidCast feed from SquidUtils, and FeedBurner, a service that provides RSS feed services for bloggers, including email services.

This may sound complicated, but using my step-by-step guide, it is very easy!

You don’t need to worry that this is spamming because the emails are sent with the permission of the person requesting them. Lens visitors will click on your link and be sent an email notification. In that email they will click again giving permission for FeedBurner to send your SquidCast emails. Every email also contains a link for the person to unsubscribe.

On my lenses I mention that my SquidCast emails will update them on ALL my lenses, not just the one they’re looking at.

If you have any questions, please let me know. I’ve experimented with this and found that it works great!

By the way, I put this information together because someone was asking for an email subscription method over at SquidU, a great place to find lens ideas!