New Article Email Alerts
Every day at 2pm CST USA time, emails are released to the 222 categories of EzineArticles for over 10k+ permission-based email members (presumably publishers looking for articles or authors looking for new article topic ideas) who signed up from our subscription page.

This week, we rolled out a new feature that extends invitations to our readership to join the new article email alerts by the addition of a subscription box in the left navigation (bottom) of the article and category view for each category.
Example: The loans sub-category has the subscription box in the left navigation and each article (example) has the subscription box in the left nav.
The idea was not to intrude on the reader and to leverage virtual real-estate to do a better job selling for us. In this case, growing our permission-based email lists will help drive more traffic to your articles where we both win.
I know we could grow these lists 25-50% faster with java hover ads, but the last thing I want to see on an article is a pop up…
What do you think of this and any recommendations for how we could enhance the email alert subscription box for each category?
How do you do this? I write an article about how directories must attract readers and published it this morning. Watching my articles scroll down the home page, I do some intuitive reading from the home page and notice this new feature for the first time. How long have we been doing this now? I could have included it in my article. Now I have to write another. You folks are slave drivers. Do as we do obsessives. Think as we think obsessives. I totally love this new feature. Every surviving directory will have it next year. Too early for me to suggest any improvements. I have to let the whole morning’s experience sink in and then write about it. EzineArticles is just too good for its own good.
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