follow.it

Increase repeat visitors with custom subscription buttons and useful filters

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Site traffic shouldn’t be a one-way street where visitors stop by for a second and then zoom off forever. (Y’all come back now, ya hear?)

Even with great content, your site somehow just isn’t the place to be—yet.

It’s time for a solution that optimizes every step in the funnel to make people come back to your website.

Introducing follow.it.

TL;DR

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Offer visitors custom options to follow you, including various delivery channels and content filters
Alternative to: FeedBurner
Automatically notify subscribers when new posts are published, and check analytics to optimize retention rates
Best for: Content creators and news sites that consistently publish fresh material and want to boost return traffic

Overview

Follow.it lets you create subscription forms with options for various delivery channels and content filters to increase repeat traffic.

Give visitors the heads-up that they can subscribe to your awesome content with a subscription form.

Follow.it gives you a custom subscription form builder with eye-catching icons ready for prime site locations.

But if you’ve already got a form you like, follow.it works just as well with outside options, too.

Build an engaging subscription form to snag new subscribers and keep the content flowing!

Once visitors smash that subscribe button like a content-hungry Hulk, they can customize notifications in no time.

Visitors can pick their own tags, keywords, authors, and even popularity preferences to tailor their experience and increase the likelihood of return visits.

Subscribers can choose their own filters to tailor content updates to their liking!

Followers can also choose how to receive updates through the output channels feature.

Available output channels are email, news page, RSS feeds, and many others are in the pipeline.

Plus, you can bank on your emails not triggering spam filters thanks to follow.it’s advanced email sender reputation.

Follow.it lets you use optimized delivery times and multichannel delivery to maximize the chances of followers opening your messages.

Followers can choose their delivery channels, including emails, news page, and RSS feeds!

Follow.it also features detailed analytics to ensure that you’re able to keep improving your processes.

You’ll discover advanced stats on followers that separate subscribers by channel to see where your audience is.

Then there are sent message statistics that show you how many people actually find their way back to your site.

Follow.it offers a complete picture of how many people follow your feed, and even asks them why they’re unfollowing to grab you some valuable info before they leave.

Detailed statistics show you which channels subscribers prefer, plus how many return to your site!

You can’t personally serenade every visitor with “I Want You Back” by The Jackson 5 when they leave your site (definitely keep that one in your pocket for karaoke though).

But you can let them sign up for notifications on their own terms, boosting the chances that they’ll stick with you and your excellent content.

Use follow.it and let all your visitors find their way back home in a jiffy.

Get lifetime access to follow.it today!

P.S. Learn how to use follow.it like a pro by catching our training webinar replay here: Webinar Replay!

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Q: Has something happened to the development of your product?

I checked your Roadmap on trello and nothing substantial has been completed in the last few months.

Any major feature dev is planned for either the next "3 months" or "6 months".

Something seems off..or maybe a long vacation perhaps? That would be fine. But my concern is if I purchased, the product may stop working or company may go belly up.

Look forward to your response. Thank you.

SaaSDeals.com40918Jan 21, 2021
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Nick_BackupBliss

Nick_BackupBliss

May 14, 2024

A: Thank you for your question SaaSDeals!

No such worries are needed :) Since the AppSumo deal started we released the Telegram delivery channel, MyPopUps collaboration and various little features. For some other features shown on the roadmap we realized we need to do some architectural changes (to build them on a sound foundation) which should be completed in 1-2 weeks. After that, there will be a significant speed up in new feature deliveries.

In any case, you don't have to worry about us going belly up. follow.it (and its predecessor SpecificFeeds.com) have been around for many years, and we'll keep investing into the platform. We're in it for the long haul.

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Q: Will I receive emails about published posts, like I did from Feedburner?

ladanJun 13, 2021
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Nick_BackupBliss

Nick_BackupBliss

May 15, 2024

A: Yes, it's exactly like Feedburner.

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Q: Hi, You mentioned "...

to send messages independently from your posts/RSS feed, then for now, you cannot do that on follow.it (even though we're looking into that and it will be possible at some point)."

Glad to hear that regular email marketing campaigns will eventually be possible.

Will this be included in this AS plan when released?

Thank you

d99c0feca679487b8ba3e91173e41359PLUSNov 10, 2020
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Nick_BackupBliss

Nick_BackupBliss

May 15, 2024

A: Thank you for your question!

Yes, it will be included, as AppSumo users are on the highest premium plan ("Super-cool").

If you have any other questions, just shoot!

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Q: Hi Nick, - If we still send normal email newsletter broadcasts for our blog updates and also use Followit to ...

alert users, can we customise how the content design look like how we customise html for email newsletters?

- If we hit subscriber limit but don't want to automatically be upgraded to pay the recurring fee. Do we have the option to keep the limit to e.g. 6000 subs?

auraNov 4, 2020
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Nick_BackupBliss

Nick_BackupBliss

May 15, 2024

A: Thanks for your question Aura!

For now the format is as shown as mentioned above, i.e. https://bit.ly/3487V5x (if you only want to send headlines) or https://bit.ly/2EEWrOf (for "full story view"). Of course, you can replace the follow.it logo with yours, and remove other brandings.

Other publishers also requested more layout option, so we'll look into those too, probably first allowing publishers to define the colors (but keeping the basic structure the same), and at some point allowing more tailoring options too.

Regarding hitting the 6,000 limit: we never block any follower from signing up to your feed. If you go over your limit, but haven't uploaded any credits to your account, you'll only get an email from us, politely asking you to take out your credit card :) At that point, you can either follow our suggestion (thank you), or unfollow some of your followers (to get under the limit again). If both options are no good we may also implement hard cuts at some point, but we're not really fond of them.

Note that we're also working on other features to help you to stay below your limits, e.g. the feature to automatically unfollow followers who haven't opened or clicked any of your emails in the last e.g. 6 months.

Does that answer your questions? If you have other questions, please shoot!

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Q: Could I use follow.

it in the future to write the blog itself? so it would have a cname blog just like curated.co has for newsletters

eg: blog.segureo.com -> showing my posts

danirogercPLUSNov 4, 2020
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Nick_BackupBliss

Nick_BackupBliss

May 15, 2024

A: Thank you for your question!

Yes, at some point this will be possible (we'll probably enable this when we allow publishers to charge followers for their feeds too). However don't hold your breath - we got quite a lot of other feature requests which we now need to work on first :)

If you have any other questions, please shoot!

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