Resources for Webmasters
The following sites are NOT listed in order of preference. They are all programs that are used on AstroStar.com
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Big Kudos to MailerLite.com!
MailerLite.com is what I've been waiting for! - This is my favorite company for our newsletter --- Finally!!! It's been a long, arduous journey to find them. For those who have been getting the AstroStar newsletter these past 20 years, you know the trials we've gone through: Yahoo Groups was fine for the first decade but often got hacked and was buggy. Then I tried MailChimp - they're now quite pricey and notorious for blocking newsletters if you have one of their spam "keywords" in your newsletter. (You might never know why you got banned either - and they ban often without warning - Cancel Culture). Then I tried Mail-List PHP for a few months. It's free on some server hosts but is not for the faint of heart to figure out. Oh, and it's easily hacked, which happened 3 months into using it. Neither my hosting company nor I could figure out how to get it running again. Not only is Mail List PHP NOT user friendly, it couldn't/wouldn't send the newsletter to my Gmail subscribers. Frustrations again. Back to searching for the perfect one which is MailerLite.
Send in Blue was confusing. I couldn't figure out their import address interface for starters. So much for that one...somewhere is the perfect newsletter service for me... And then Eureka! I found MailerLite, my new beloved newsletter service. The best things in life sometimes are worth waiting for! I'm so grateful and so relieved. In a nutshell, here's what I love about MailerLite:
It's SO user friendly.
It's amazingly simple but powerful.
They're adding features all the time.
It's free for the first 1000 subscribers. I knew that wouldn't apply to me. I have 1900+ subscribers, but after seeing how great MailerLite is, I signed up for $84 for one year which is a super good deal (compared to the others).
A nice bonus for all is that if you share MailerLite with others, you and they will get a $20 credit when they sign up. If they end up upgrading as I did, you'll get a $20 credit, too. Give $20, Get $20. I'd recommend them anyway!
So far, I haven't found anything I don't like about them.
MailerLite.com
Temu has an Affiliate Program where new affiliates can make up to $200 commission, receive a $2 welcome gift, and up to $300 free credit.
For our domain registration we use NameCheap.com
Leet-De-Deet
Leet De-Deet is a Literary Marketing Group that promotes Authors and their Creations.
Sign up now during this exclusive pre-launch period to be a Founding Member of this innovative community!
Medium
Become a member for $50 per year. Not only will your website's Google search ranking get a huge boost, you'll have access to thousands of writers, including those who might have been Censored or Banned on other platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Joining Medium is a proactive choice against Cancel Culture.
HireWriters.com
Hire talented native English speaking writers to create articles for your website.
TinyURL.com - It's free. We use TinyURL.com to shorten those l-o-n-g affiliate links in our newsletter. If you use it, they'd love a donation at their website so we can all keep using it.
 
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