Farewell Temporary Subscribers!
I recently held a mini competition here giving away 3 free logos to 3 lucky readers.
I gave this competition a little boost with a John Cow review. That combined with quite a few backlinks resulted in about 70 entries.
People had to subscribe by email to enter so this took my subscribers from the 60 ish mark upto around the 130 mark.
This stayed steady until… guess when 
? yep! after the contest ended. No surprises. As I said in a recent post – contest subscribers can be temporary as a large amount of the time they subscribe, check result and say bye bye!
With RSS this doesn’t happen so much assuming the content is good but with Email subscriptions, I would imagine a lot more people unsubscribe as it is quite annoying getting constant email updates.
Anyway, subscribers now down to 107 and I would imagine will continue to drop!
Farewell Temporary Subscribers…
Next time I’ll make people subscribe by RSS!
I was already subscribed via RSS on my google homepage, so I’d only sign up for the email subscription for competitions anyway.
It’s a shame you can’t simply track anyone that accesses your feed.
Yeah it is. Would make competitions so much more beneficial. I’ll think of a really nice competition soon to utilize RSS subscriptions.
Will give it a while though, don’t wanna overrun the blog with contests.
Yeh Coffeesh0p you’ve been subscribed right from the start! thanks
As the blog grows I will certainly be rewarding my longtime readers more
Always a disappointment. I am keeping a monthly contest, where you can win if you are subscribed, so that will hopefully keep my subscribers around.
Justin Dupre
http://www.blogosis.com
I’m still subscribed, via email and via my RSS reader. I do however, plan to unsubscribe via email as I obviously don’t need both, just signed up for the emails for the competition.
I’ll still continue to subscribe in Bloglines though.
I’m still subscribed to your feeds, psp, netvibes and feed demon. It’s a shame they’ll be missing more of your interesting posts though. But at least you’re contest worked.
I dont think this really happens. No one unsubscribe, unless you pollute there feed with kinda posts which doesnt make any sense for them. So its always better to look ahead and keep your concentration on good content. At the same time promotion of blog is also important. Anyways , even though the contest is over, I am not gonna unsubscribe
… All the best.
Well, I have your feed on Bloglines for a while now and I subscribed by mail just for the contest (not the recent one, the one before that!) and I was actually thinking of unsubscribing too
In fact, had I not been too lazy, I would have done that already. Whats bad about subscribing my mail is that the mail reaches me hours after I’ve read your post through your feed 
Oh by all means, if you are subscribed by RSS unsubscribe from my email subscription! I would! no point in having both.
As long as good articles are going to be written on this blog, I’ll remain subscribed.
Shame about that – luckily mine hasn’t dropped too much after contests because I promised more (eventually
) and the readers of my blog are too lazy to unsubscribe.
Your RSS count still shows as 132 for me by the way.
That’s unfortunate. If you have a prize that you will give away at some unspecified point in the future, you can hold onto them longer. Have an unsubscribe confirmation email say, “I hereby acknowledge that by un-subscribing, I take forfeit my chance of winning the $300 Target gift card that will be awarded some time in the next few months.”