Do I Ask People to Subscribe to an Email List or Should I Just Allow Them to Use RSS?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Today's question comes from Jeff, who is wondering whether he should ask his audience to sign up to an email list or to use RSS to sign up. Do you have a question about communicating with your audience? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Check out http://www.smartpodcastplayer.com/ to sign up for announcements about our upcoming public launch. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPask.
0:01.0	AskPack.com
0:07.0	What up, everybody?
0:12.0	This is Pat Flynn.
0:13.0	Sorry.
0:14.0	And welcome to episode 106 of Ask Pat.
0:17.0	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:18.0	I really appreciate it.
0:19.0	We have another great question from Jeff today.
0:21.1	However, before I get to that, I want to mention something awesome that happened last week.
0:24.9	Last week, my team and I, we released the beta version of the Smart Podcast Player,
0:29.7	and we capped it to 250 beta licenses so we could work with that small group, improve it,
0:34.3	add new features to it before we release it to the wild again later, sold out in
0:38.3	less than 24 hours. So I'm just so thankful for you. If you're one of the customers who purchased
0:42.2	the smart podcast player, you rock. Thank you so much. And if you're looking forward to the next
0:46.5	version of it, you can actually subscribe to get notified at smartpodcastplayer.com. So do that right now if you are a podcaster and you're interested in that
0:55.0	smart podcast player.com. You can see it in action right now on that site or on ask pat.com as well.
1:01.2	Now, let's get to today's question from Jeff. Hi, Pat. This is Dr. Jeff Ledwick from Wellness
1:07.5	Tribe Nation. I'm starting a blog and a podcast and maybe a vlogging site. And my question is this.
1:16.2	How do I build a list of names of followers? Should I have people sign up for an email or maybe
1:23.8	purchase an ebook to collect those names? Or should I just have people sign up through something like FeedBurner to get my post?
1:33.1	Thanks, Pat, for all you do.
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