Offer Email Subscriptions to Your SquidCasts

Go to SquidUtils and enter your Squidoo username in the Lensmaster ID box, and click 'login'.

On the next page, click on "Lensmaster RSS Feeds".

Copy the "RSS Feed of your own Squidcasts".

Example: mine is Mine is: http://squidutils.com/squidcasts/from/lindajm.rss. If you click on that you'll get a form allowing you to subscribe to my SquidCasts via an RSS reader, such as GoogleReader. But we're going to set up email subscriptions instead, so don't stop here.

Go to FeedBurner. If you already have an account there, sign in. If not, then register and sign in.

Go to the "My Feeds" page if you're not there already.

In the box that says "Burn a feed right this instant" put in the RSS feed you got from SquidUtils. Do not check the podcaster box. Click on 'next'.

Title your Feed. My title is: 'LindaJM's SquidCasts in Email'

Rename your feed address if you want to. I renamed mine 'lindajm-squidcasts'

Click on "Activate Feed".

You now have a feed!

Click on 'Skip directly to feed management'.

Click on the 'Publicize' link at the top of the page.

In the sidebar, click on 'Email Subscriptions'.

Choose FeedBurner, FeedBlitz, or Rmail. I always stay with FeedBurner.

Click on 'Activate'.

Here's what a typical SquidCast email looks like.
The large blue letters are links to your lenses.

Copy the html code in the second box to make your link.

Add a new text module to your lens and place your code there. Modify the link text if you wish. I changed mine to 'Subscribe to get notifications of my lens updates by email.' I also changed the module title to 'Subscribe to get notification of my lens updates by email'.

Save the module and admire your work!

I add a caveat: 'Note: This updates you on ALL my lenses, not just this one!' (You can see this in the intro module of this lens.) I don't want to get complaints later from people who want updates to the Video Blogging lens but find they're getting updates to Bigfoot lenses too!

If you're not a member of Squidoo yet, please join.

Please leave me a star-rating before you go!

Subscribe to get notifications of my lens updates by email.
Note: This updates you on ALL my lenses, not just this one!

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