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Blog Talk: Why followers are not signing up for your newsletter

Honestly, I don't know exactly why they are not signing up for your newsletter or email posts in particular. But I have a pretty good guess as to why many bloggers don't have have the numbers that they would like. It's the same reason that I (personally, not as a blogger)  don't sign up for newsletters; we have enough emails to sort through every day . Obvious answer.  You were probably hoping for something more profound. While that's not necessarily profound, it is an answer that people don't like to acknowledge. I get questions from bloggers all the time asking about how many subscribers I have to various things and how long it took me to get there. I don't have the exact answer to that. It's not a cookbook formula. We all like to think we have the best site out there. Who wouldn't want to read our stuff?? We're awesome!  But the fact is that if every reader signed up for every blog "Newsletter" and "email notificati...