R|Mail still grows and it seems more and more users seem to enjoy the luxury of reading the latest posts of their favorite blogs through their e-mail client. I’m using the service for over three months now and really, all I can add to the numbers is that I’m sure it will grow. The simplicity of the concept and the ease of use just make the difference with other services alike I’ve been testing before I ended up with Randy’s wonderful tool. Not only can I subscribe to the service, a very easy copy-paste java script allows me to offer it to all of my readers too. As many of you noticed, and some have dared to click, there’s an r|mail button on every page of this blog, inviting you to be informed of the latest news I’ve put online here on Marketing Thoughts.
All you have to do is enter your e-mail address and you’re in with the crowd. Not that you should kick out your RSS readers or aggregators, because they too have their use and sense. R|Mail is just somewhat more convenient to monitor ‘that special blog’. I have about seven blogs I watch ‘more closely’ this way, just to be sure I don’t miss any new posts. I only use R|Mail for blogs that posts rather frequently, but not according a fixed schedule. I know some bloggers post in the morning before work, or at night when they get home. Some people with dayjobs have ‘fixed’ blogging time… but others hit the keyboard to break news… and I just want to know when that happens. With R|Mail, I do know, and for some topics, knowing first ( or second, if you look at it from another perspective ) matters.
I just got back from my vacation in Mallorca and if I open my RSS reader I’m kind of turned off by the amount of stuff to read from the passed week… But when I open up my Inbox, I see 400 R|Mail messages from 7 blogs, and that covers the 3512 unread posts entirely. Looking at it this way, I consider myself to be up to date after browsing through my inbox. And that’s a very good and timesaving thing.
So, what are you waiting for? Use it too, sign up to any blog with a feed, type your e-mail address and get in touch with the world.
The updated stats can be consulted [here], but I’ll line up some details for you all:
R|Mail has 3619 subscribes who ‘read’ 2546 feeds, and those feeds are delivered to 1517 unique e-mail addresses. Pretty cool. And it keeps growing…
In fact, just because we have so many users, Randy has started a new blog, especially for R|Mail, so users can stay in touch with us, be informed of the latest updates and changes and best of all : so they can contact us for support, questions or suggestions.
I’ll be posting some stuff there every once in a while too, but the focus is the interaction with the users, and a follow-up on suggestions or small difficulties. Read the R|Mail blog, another fine KBCafe blog service.