Okay, so during my work travels today, I realized that I went back in time somehow and mis-numbered my blog posts by 220 posts. Something as simple as accidentally switching two digits, and all this mayhem.
The result: this is day number 1,777 of the daily blog challenge/project/life choice. Now we’re back on track. Huzzah!
It’s a bit crazy to think that I’ve been doing this for so long. One thousand, seven hundred, seventy-seven days. Almost five years. Less than a year away from 2,000. Nuts. I’ve loved every minute of it.
I had a very, very solid work day today. I finished the chapter I needed to finish. I wrote the emails I needed to write, and worked my way through my new email service for the first time. Those newsletters will go out tomorrow morning. For some of my subscribers, it will be the first email from me they’ve seen since the beginning of August. Blech.
The new service is mostly much better. Their tagging feature allows me to tag subscribers from within the emails I send out. Meaning, if someone clicks a link to read the story I’ve just posted, I can tag that subscriber as having checked out that story. Will be *massive* for when I have several different series going, being able to keep it straight who’s read what.
But, it’s also not as good in some areas, my new email service. For example, I haven’t figured out a way in the campaigns tab (which they call “broadcasts) to use html templates. That sucks. MailerLite was SO EASY in that regard, and their templates looked really, really wonderful. Not the biggest negative in the world considering I made the choice to go back to plain old text emails several months ago, but still.
They also don’t have the ability to send ‘test’ emails so I can see how it looks on my computer and on mobile. That is a big downside. They only have a ‘preview,’ but that just shows what it looks like on my computer. Not ideal.
Overall, however, I just get the feeling from this new company that they’re going to take care of me. I won’t have to go through the service being down or blacklisted like with MailerLite. It’ll take some getting used to, but the switch is a good choice, I think. We’ll see how good their automation sequences are…
Those were the two major items on my plate that I tried to get done last week, and couldn’t muster the focus: finish the chapter, send out the newsletters. Sigh. At least it’s done now. I also got reading done, and some errands.
It was a very solid day. A normal day. I feel like my feet are back on the ground…and my writing today reminded me that I *can* write. This chapter today was good. Really, really good. I’m so pleased with it.
More work tomorrow! Good night! 🙂