The R|Mail service helps you spread your news fast to your readers. All they have to do is sign up, and they’ll be informed via e-mail about the latest new posts on your blog. Of course you can also use R|Mail yourself to subscribe to any RSS-feed you want, and then you’ll be up-to-date yourself, receiving the freshest updates of your favorite blogs.
Since it started, April 24th ‘05, R|Mail has always been on the move. A little slow at first, but certainly progressing. This morning, the counter hit 2000 subs, and by now, it’s already 2065. So there must be a high degree of comfort and an attractive, playful use that convinced all those people to sign up for so many feeds.
R|Mail feeds the smtp of over 2000 users with posts from over 1000 blogs. On june 20th there were 1000 users. Nice pattern of growth.
But I think it can do more. And faster.
R|Mail isn’t THE way to inform your readers, but it gives your readers the opportunity to stay in touch on a more personal basis. I’ll give you some good reasons why I use R|Mail, because I think that’s the best way to convince you.
- Internauts check their e-mail first, then the RSS-readers.
so if you’re in the inbox with your latest news, they read you first. - e-Mail still is more personal. It’s 1-to-1 communication with the highest possible degree of interest from your readers. There’s no other way to get closer unless you have personal information and send out the news manually.
- ‘RSS over SMTP’ just sounds way to cool not to offer it.
- It’s an ‘extra’ tool that just gives your readers the choice on how to receive your info.
- If you’re an occasional poster, people will like it a lot they didn’t had to check your blog a gazillion times before anything new appeared.
- R|Mail scans your RSS feed once every hour so people who have their mail client open (Outlook, Notes,…) will receive multiple posts a day; if you post your news in sessions this is a good solution without overdoing it. Once an hour. That’s acceptable.
Making R|Mail available to your readers is pretty simple.
Randy has made R|Mail multilingual, so there’s ISO language support on request.
Subscribing yourself to any RSS feed to get the posts in your mailbox ? Yeah sure ! [Go Here]
The First post ever about R|Mail by Randy on the KBCafe Blog [Here]
On another note, also RSS-related, Randy has posted a comparison of all the RSS-readers he’s been using from the very start up until now.
Well, probably not all of them. But 15 for sure.
It’s pretty convenient to have this info. Made it very easy for me to chose ‘the reader’. I’m goin for Juice.