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If you are serious about building a blog you need to be bringing your readers back again and again.  While many readers may subscribe to your feed a huge number of Internet users are still not using RSS.  The way to bring these visitors back is with email.  We do that here at ComTech News and I do it with my other blogs with a paid service but I just found a free email marketing service that is specificly made for use by bloggers.

The service is called Zookoda email marketing and it is beyond cool.  

Zookoda enables you to:

• Manage email newsletter subscribers.
• Enhance your blog with custom newsletter subscription forms.
• Design eye-catching newletters to match your blog design.
• Schedule recurring broadcasts for each day, week or month.
• View real-time open, bounce, click and unsubscribe reports.
• Access mobile users by emailing blog content in text format.

And it does all of this for free!  In fact I could not even find a paid upgrade option after looking a great deal to find one.  

The system automates email updates to your subscribers with the frequency and options you want.  Rather then doing away with RSS feeds it embraces them.  Zookoda uses your blogs RSS or Atom feed to provide your email content.  This way your visitors get updated as frequently as you choose with summaries of your latest blog posts.

I set up an account with Zookoda in a matter of minute and I am already working on adding it to one of my new blogs, there is a strong possibility it will replace my other email service at least for RSS blog based email updates.

The system is fully compliant with SPAM laws, all opt ins are via a double opt in process and it comes with all the features of typical higher end email marketing systems.  The interface is fairly intuitive and we plan to make some training videos of how to set it up for our Internet Marketing Training program over at MarketingICE.com.

Take a look at Zookoda I can tell you that it is quite impressive and best of all it is free.

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