Hey everybody, this is Adam from Adamaholah.com. I also do the AM Podcast Network and today I was actually writing a little bit about the value of email marketing, newsletter marketing, whatever you want to call it. And I figured, well, why not go ahead and just do a video on it and just show people what it looks like. It was mostly just for the podcasting network, but then I realized, and like, wait a minute, this goes beyond like just the podcasting. It's, how do you reach your audience? This is something that everybody that's doing something on the internet really needs to understand and get control over. Right now what you're seeing is you're seeing the AM Podcast Network. I went to Luke from True Sounds from Underground, episode nine, just so I can kind of show off the, this little widget right here. And this is something that I built over the last five months. This thing is called the Total Support Widget and I'll put that in the description below. What it does is it's a 300 by 300 pixel here for whatever image you want. It goes to Patreon. I did not include any other fun raising platforms, just Patreon for now. And then you get, this is all fun. Awesome. This is what I love about the widget. I'll also link to this in the WordPress directory. So that way you can read all about it. But the main thing about this is I also include the API and everything you need for the newsletter for Cindy, which is what I'm about to talk about. You can just come here, put their name, their email, subscribe, and boom, they're on your list. This is so powerful if you are a content creator. So I have this on the AM Podcast Network. I also have it on my own personal blog where you can see, you know, I'm over here on this side. And then what I like about this is I can put this widget anywhere. I can make unlimited sidebars. I can have, you know, endless opportunities here to get people to sign up for my newsletter, which is fantastic. It's what we want. So let's go into, let me just show you real quick, because I haven't pulled up. This is the total support widget. When you click on the link, this is what you should see. It's very, very new. I mean, I've put this up a month ago. And I haven't really been pushing it so I don't have stars or anything yet. But I did take care of a couple of threads. Anyway, this is awesome. If you want something in your sidebar that's already, you know, made, it's all free. There's no premium version and I'm open to any, I'm open to anything that people want in it. As long as I when I update it, you know, it's a reasonable request. I'll put it in there. Let's go to a sendee because this is what I'm using in the past I had used MailChimp. And it's great because they have a free tier and I think it's 12,000 emails per month and it's free. But if you go over that, that's when you start paying. Now for somebody just starting out. It's not a bad deal, right? If you're only sending a newsletter like once or twice a month and you don't have that many people, maybe 500 people are that are on your list, then this is not a concern of yours. You will be in the free tier and it's no big deal. However, once you get into, you know, higher numbers on your list and more of people wanting a regular newsletter like once a week, twice a week, three times a week, well, you can reach 12,000 pretty quickly. I use sendee, which is a self-hosted email slash newsletter program. And this basically links up with Amazon, AWS, SCS and SNS, which is email service and notification service. So it gets really tacky when you go on that side. So I don't want to do that here in this video. What I want to show you is this is all my campaigns. Now I, my personal blog is not heavy traffic at this point. I'm just kind of developing content. So I don't really put this out there and I'm even shocked that I, I'm in the teens for recipients soon. I'm hoping by the end of the year that this will change to thousands, but I wanted to show this screen because these are my reports of all my campaigns I've sent out. It tells you the dates, which you can see, I have not been sending them out at all very much. What's more important is I can see unique opens 66% open rate 37.5 50, you know, and I know these are low numbers. So maybe it's not indicative of what you might experience, but still I get more action on my newsletters than I do on Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, you name it. Let's move over to tab. I just want to show you, you know, this is my list. I just have one list, but I can add to this. I can have as many lists as I want, which is really, really, really, really, really, really cool. And I like that. Cindy also tells me that there's a new version out. I wanted to see what he adds into the next revolution of Cindy. Next tab is my reports. I actually get reports. Now, I'm not going to scroll down because I don't want anybody's email, you know, mark in here because it will show, but it tells me open, not open, you know, and it tells me you know, Kingdom USA, it gives me a lot of stuff. Like I can go scroll down and see who on subscribe, who marked it as spam. I get a lot of flexibility out of Cindy with some of my lists that are actually into the thousands. And if I choose to send multiple times a week, I only get charged 10 cents. That's 10 USD cents for everyone thousand emails I send. So if I send 10,000 emails, I owe Amazon a dollar. How do you beat that? I don't know. I really don't know. This is something for any podcaster, any content creator, you know, I know Patreon is getting really, really big. And I'm so happy to see that. I'm happy to finally see something that, you know, takes control and says, all right, we're going to fundraise for this show or, you know, this channel, whatever it is. But in relationship with Patreon, you have to think beyond just, oh, well, I'll just tweet it or oh, I'll just put it on my Facebook page. You need to have a newsletter so you can go ahead and, you know, send, send a message to every single person that signed up like, hey, episode 12 just dropped on my podcast. Come check it out or hey, I'm traveling, you know, to France or wherever, you know, I'll be here here and here and let me know if you'd like to meet up and, and, you know, hang out, whatever it is. This gives you an opportunity to get into somebody's email box. And it's very quick. It's professional. You can bring your own templates in. There's so much opportunity here. So if you're a podcaster and your show does not have an email list, you need one. Start one. This is something I am going to start offering. I'm already offering it on my personal blog. It's $5 a month plus, you know, you pay for whatever you send. So if you don't send that much, you're not going to get charged that much. I'm going to get it up on the AM podcast network soon. We're doing a huge overhaul and my goal is to integrate this into like the one sign on, you know, for everything. And I wanted to look better. I think there's so much stuff I can do with this. So I'm telling you, if you're not into doing your mail list, get your mail list started. And you need to do it today right now if you're not doing this. You need to start collecting email addresses so you can actually tell somebody, hey, I just put out a blog or I just put out my next podcast. You got to get this. That's it for this video. I appreciate you watching. This is Adam from Adamaholand.com or the AM podcast network.com. Till the next one, thank you.