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Yes, this is a shameless plea to promote my stories

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I have no shame. I don’t care. I merely want to get more eyes on my stories. That’s why I created a newsletter outside of the Medium platform to let my subscribers know I have published stories.

I know Medium has an Email subscribers option, but in my experience, it does not work well. First, every time someone publishes a story, an email is sent. If a writer publishes multiple times during the day, multiple emails are sent out, clogging up subscribers’ inboxes. Second, this function does not work. Many times, subscribers were deleted for no reason at all.

When I created my newsletter, Steve Sovie’s World, I intended to send it once a week, on Sunday. It includes links to the stories I wrote the previous week, plus an occasional message or photo I have chosen to share with my readers. Instead of receiving multiple emails throughout the week, you only get one!

I don’t sell courses or products, and I don’t try to entice you to view a YouTube video or click on mysterious links. However, there is a donation button at the end of the newsletter if you want to chip in a few cents to help put me in a higher tax bracket.

I’ve sent out six newsletters thus far. I don’t know how effective they have been. Either they go into your spam mailbox, or the recipient simply deletes them. Some, but not many, are opened, as my statistics have revealed. The good news is that no one has unsubscribed.

What puzzles me is that people continue to subscribe to my stories by using the Medium subscribe icon instead of my signup link in my rather large image at the end of every story.

I apologize for shamelessly trying to promote my articles, but sometimes, we older people act without shame. I worked hard on creating my newsletter, and it may not be comparable to a professionally designed newsletter. But it is 100% me.

If any of you have any suggestions for improvement, or if you have any complaints, please let me know. At least click on the link to see what it looks like, you don’t have to subscribe.

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Why I Don’t Click on Your Link

 

And why nobody clicks on mine?

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Please Click On The Following Link.

We have all seen this or similar prompts in the Medium stories we read and on other sites we visit. But how many of us actually click on the prompt?

If you’re like me, you ignore it. With the numerous phishing scams exploding on the internet, we all have to be highly vigilant. Unless we know exactly what clicking on a link will lead us to, we should ignore it.

Many writers here on Medium have a website, blog, newsletter, or Substack account we are hoping to promote, and we place a link at the bottom of our article, urging the reader to click to subscribe. You will see my subscription link below this article.

Most readers don’t click on these links because they are unsure where the link will take them or don’t want to receive any more emails in their inbox.

Promoting a blog or newsletter can be a real challenge, but using a promotion link on our stories is one of the best ways to get the word out. I’ve recently started my own newsletter and am now using the promotion link. It’s not easy to get readers to click on my link. I know others share the same feeling.

My advice to anyone planning to use a link to promote their website or newsletter is to explain clearly where the link will lead. If you plan to sell a product, be honest with your readers and tell them. Explain this to your reader if you promote an informative newsletter or personal blog.

If I see a prompt link that is confusing, either with a picture or slogan that does not relate to the article I have just read, I will ignore it. I do not want to risk my computer being infected with malware or other viruses that could be disastrous.

Thank you for reading. Please support and subscribe to the writers you like, but be careful.

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