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Today’s question is:
Do you ever get Newsletter fatigue as a reader?
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Yes. Last year after being added to so many new newsletters I actually got to a point I couldn’t handle looking at them. I do use a folder for newsletters, and I would see how many were there unread and just couldn’t even look. Now I have way less but there are still days when quite a few come the same day. I just don’t have the energy, and they can remain unopened for a few days. I do that with other email as well.
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I do get newsletter fatigue and I read very few newsletters. Only the ones from my very favourite authors. I appreciate when they’re short and lighthearted.
This is something I am considering as I look at setting up avenues to build my own platform – I don’t want to put content out in the world just for the sake of it. I want to have something truly life-giving to say that doesn’t add more burden to already burdened people.
I tend to like the short ones too although not too short. I like a quick update whats happening, life or writing life. I also think sometimes when an author hasn’t anything to put in a newsletter its ok to wait till the next one. Thanks for commenting
Yes. I don’t have a separate folder because I might decide to ignore it when I see too many in there. I leave them with my regularly emails. If I decide I don’t want to open them when they come in, I probably wasn’t going to read them anyway. Sometimes, I will remember and come back at a convenient moment, otherwise, they will eventually get cleared off when I delete all my unread emails.
That makes sense. I tend to have several folders set up for different types of emails and I use create filters so the mail will go there. only problem is when you have too many folders and you miss some of the lower folders.
No, but only because I am subscribed to only 2 author’s newsletters and they send them at the most once a month.
I have followed some authors on Amazon, so it can be tiring to get the same book suggestions over and over.
That makes sense. I am on a few of the Amazon ones and tend to open and delete don’t even bother reading but feel bad if I don’t open.
I am so overwhelmed by newsletters that I have been unsubscribing to ones that I just don’t read their books or they are emailing every single day with the same exact content. I just don’t have the time for that many emails every day.
I get you Cindi. I have kept a couple where I don’t read but like some of the activities. (One does a jigsaw I love to do)