That is a tactic guaranteed to take you years to reach even a minimal subscriber level. There are billions of websites these days - and millions of them have newsletters. All of those questions are very important to answer if you expect people to trust you with their personal information. The magic number online seems to be somewhere around four to seven visits. If you're selling giftware, remember that you and a couple hundred thousand other folks sell coffee mugs.
Nobody remembers the URL for some site they visited last week without a bookmark.
I'm positive that you've never heard a car salesman tell you the bottom line price of a car he wanted to sell you before he pointed out all the wonderful features and took you for a test drive. Highly successful car salesmen never even ask you to buy the car. Talk about the beauty of a particular item - or the benefits. Next time I'll tell you about a couple of very effective strategies for bringing folks in the door in the first place that Marlene can easily add to her site at a very low cost. We have been in business for almost a year and have a exciting website, but are now looking for additional investment capital for a more aggressive marketing effort.