Why Should I Subscribe?

Tyner Blain is a blog about software product success.

There are two ways to get information today - go look for it, or let it come to you. You can always just come to Tyner Blain and see what we’ve written lately. We write something every week day, which means you have to remember to come back and check out the site every day.

Or, you can subscribe to our content, and the content will come to you.

• Skip a few days? No problem, its all there waiting for you when you’re ready.
• Only interested in some of the content? What better way to know if you’re interested than to quickly scan your email or news reader.
• Pressed for Time? When the content comes to you, you save time over checking out the site directly. When you read several blogs, this can add up.
• Want to read offline? When you subscribe, you get our content on your machine - read it online or off. On a plane? No problem.

Is The Content Different?

No. We include the full content of each article in both our emails and our news feed. Many sites only send you the teaser and you have to decide if you want to read it.

How Can I Subscribe?

Tyner Blain provides two easy ways to stay up to date on what we’ve been writing. You can get each post in an email (one email per day), or you can subscribe to our news feed (in internet jargon, this is our RSS feed).

Subscribing To Our News Feed

With a news reader, like Sharp Reader or Bloglines, our update comes to you and you read it when you’re ready. Copyblogger has shared a great explanation of how news feeds (RSS) work. Our feed is available from the link near the top of the sidebar, either “Subscribe by RSS” or the little orange icon.

You can also subscribe to our comments as a news feed. This works the same way as our news feed, except it only includes the comments that people make about each article. When you comment on an article and want to know when someone responds, this is the feed for you.

Subscribing By Email

Everyone has email. Most people have the ability to set up folders and filters. With an email subscription, you can get a copy of every article we write, and even automatically archive and file them.

Spam?

We use a service called Feedblitz, offered by Feedburner (who publishes our news feed for us). When you sign up for email, your email address goes to Feedblitz, not Tyner Blain. Feedblitz asks you to confirm that you want to receive Tyner Blain by email. If you agree, they send an email to the address you listed, and you have to agree again - this is a double-opt-in mechanism that prevents mistakes, and makes email subscriptions more secure (no one else can sign you up for the emails).

If you choose, Feedblitz will even hide your email from us at Tyner Blain. All we’ll know is that someone subscribed, but we won’t know who. Or you can let us know.

We’d love to be able to send you an email some day down the road to get your opinion about new features or products we will eventually offer. But if you don’t want us to have your email address, we’re not offended.

We would rather have you subscribe anonymously than not at all.

Subscribe To Tyner Blain Now

To subscribe, just fill in your email address and click the button. You can do this at the top of the sidebar from any article you are reading or right here.