I thought Monday would be like any other day, beginning of another work week, but I wake to three emails from…ME! What the hell?
Well, someone hacked into my MailChimp account and sent out emails to a portion of my subscribers asking for money. Really? Money? Sadly, some subscribers clicked on the attachment, but luckily, they couldn’t open the zip file.
Then I changed my password and tried to send out an email from MailChimp, but MC shut down my account. Two days later, I received an email from their support group. Let’s say they were a day late and a dollar short in their help. I believe I need to find another program for newsletters and start fresh.
So be on the lookout for a link to sign up for my new newsletter.
Today, I noticed my newsletter had 76 new subscribers to sign up this month. WOW! That was awesome, but when I looked at the list I noticed some were Spam addresses (9). Then I noticed quite a few of the older subscribers were not even opening my newsletters. Hadn’t for the last six or more newsletters, and that’s over a span of 18 months. So what happens to those? I delete them.
For the last couple weeks, my newsletter subscribers had received instructions on how to win gift cards. I first offered one $20 gift card. With so many people participating, I added 3 $10 gift cards. But when I was picking the winners, I decided to add one more $10 gift card. I sure wish I could’ve given everyone a gift card.
the post for International). There are 10 books each in them, includes my three full-length novels, a $10 Amazon gift card, cool T-shirt and a Hello Kitty doll.
Carla Swafford, Author 