A few of you might have noticed the RSS count jump from 700 odd to around 980 or so… some questions have been raised through instant messsenger and email.
Although I’d love to claim I’ve discovered some secret hack that gets me hundreds of subscribers within seconds, the truth is far more boring. 
When I originally got Aweber, I made one of the mistakes that most people make – targeting the internet marketing niche. Now, the greatest deal of money is in other niches – so I learned as I experimented more and more, and although I have around seven messages setup as an autoresponder series should people join my list (here’s the link)… I haven’t really updated it in ages.
Rather than let the list die – a large portion of it is built through methods like forum marketing and Youtube, so people that don’t know about the blog yet – I decided to combine it with my blog through Aweber’s Blog Broadcast feature, as both talk about the same topics. Ergo the large boost. If you’re on the newsletter, you’ll get a thrice monthly email with all new content from the blog.
This has been done by bloggers such as John Chow, Yaro Starak, Gyutae at Winning The Web, John Cow and dozens of others… so for all accusing me of gaming numbers etc, meh. Personally, I can’t wait till I pass 1,000 subscribers as that is what defines a blog moving from the third tier into the second tier.
Anyways, just wanted to clarify. As for today’s post – I’m dead tired, as I’ve been out the whole of today… so sorry, nothing useful for you guys today. Just wanted to welcome newsletter subscribers to the blog, and one hopes you guys will stick around
Over the next few days, I’ll talk about how I got 200+ subscribers to join within a week or so (through the password protected post that went viral) and maybe another question and answer session if you guys are interested. Let me know, comments section of this post. 
August 20th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
You better talk about how you got that many subscribers soon! I need to know! And btw your first link that says “here’s the link” is not working.
Lastly, when are you going to redraw the wii?
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August 20th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Wow you put the link in awefully quickly, did you notice before my comment?(Or are you one of those people who does live editing?)
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August 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I am all in for the Q&A. I would never accuse you of being evil enough to trick out the rss count. I knew there had to be a reasonable explanation.
So to all you haters… like the man said… beh! lol
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August 20th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
@ nathaniel, the wii winner claimed it – actually wasn’t his fault for the delay as he was subscribed via email and claimed it within 13 hours of receiving the email… of course, feedburner cocked up and sent the email a day late.
as for the link thingy, i read my posts once over after i write em, thought about not bothering with it but knew someone would point it out, so changed it
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August 20th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
What is the 4th tier? Under 100? And the first over what?
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August 20th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Yeah, too bad the guy did claim the wii. But I know feedburner has been shitting all over the fence lately. It may be because google took over?
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August 20th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Th epassword protected post was evil. =P Pretty clever though.
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August 20th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Pretty evil indeed! I got 11 people hooked on this blog because of the password protected post.
Jason is a genius!
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August 20th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Is Nathaniel comment stuffing to get top spot?
Seriously, nice work growing your list. It makes me so proud to watch you grow (wipes tears) into such a big blog… I remember back when you were just a little blog. Good times…
Really seriously now… I want the post about building your subscriber list.
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August 20th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Is there a 5th tier?
Who decides what these tiers are?
I would love a question and answer. I missed out last time
Congrats on the subscriber jump
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August 20th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Jason,
Is that the only way you get subscribers? How did you get so many? Did you pay to send traffic there?
I am looking to start building up my list at the moment (using a competition on my site running tomorrow…sponsored by The Universtiy Kid)…any tips on building this list?
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August 21st, 2008 at 3:56 am
Jason is a master with link-baiting. Such as the passworded post. You had to post on your blog about his site or you had to post 5 links on dofollow blogs or get 3 people to signup. No matter which you did… you were sure to generate traffic and rss subscribers from it.
I am fixing to give away an ipod touch in a link-bait contest. It will be an easy way to get subscribers and get linked on other sites.
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August 21st, 2008 at 4:17 am
@ Creatingrevenueonline
When does you competition start? I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win an ipod touch…
@Jason
Do you plan on running any more competitions in the future?
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August 21st, 2008 at 6:34 am
Glad to see I am not the only one using this aweb feature grats on almost breaking 1k! and here is to 1500!
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August 21st, 2008 at 6:42 am
Well that would explain the unexpected email that I got from you yesterday that was a short run down (excerpts) of the recent posts on TUK! At the time I thought that you had maybe implemented a digests type plugin that sent out the last ten posts! Great to hear an explanation for that email, as well as the subscriber increase.
Didn’t you say you weren’t going to do another Q and A session for at least a year!?! If you are down for the amount of work that comes with it then I think it would again be a great post for us visitors.
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August 21st, 2008 at 8:47 am
Re Q & A – think I’ll do something different this time where I will take the best questions and use each one as a different post
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August 21st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
@Trentorsellpornmakemoney – I am not comment stuffing on purpose.
The first comment was just a comment.
The second comment I noted he got the link in.
When I was writing my third comment on the 4th tier his comment was not there yet.
When I published my third comment and the page refreshed I saw his comment, and so I wish I had put it in the other comment, but I wanted to say something about the wii and feedburner.
Happy? And uh this comment is to explain my other comments to you.
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August 21st, 2008 at 12:24 pm
No worries Nathaniel, I was just poking fun. I have seen enough of your posts to know that they are “usually” helpful and relevant
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August 21st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Looking forward to that post about growing your subscriber list!
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August 21st, 2008 at 3:31 pm
I think all newsletter subscribers rule! These are the real faithful people to you so you need to make sure that there are always happy. Once you’ve make these people angry they will probably never say very many good things to other people about you. They’re more faithful in your RSS subscribers. Keep them happy man!
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:47 am
For you success! If you keep pumping out the great content as you do now, surely you will go into the first-tier.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
@Ryan @ Smarter Wealth: I am thinking about doing it on the first of next month. Not sure though. My reader count is still pretty low and it might not be worth it. I will have to see if the numbers are worth it.
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