I believe that you never know EVERYTHING there is to blogging and driving traffic to your sites. There are always new tools being developed that create excitement and innovative ways to interact with your readers.

One of these new tools is Zookoda, a new email marketing tool, created by IZEA, especially for bloggers. It gives bloggers the opportunity to create their own email newsletter. You can send out a summary of your posts weekly, fortnightly or monthly as well as sending out special posts just to your email subscribers about any contests or other broadcasts you create.

Registering is quick, easy and best of all, it’s FREE! This is especially attractive to me as an amateur blogger because I want to be able to try out different blogging tools without having to pay just to find that it doesn’t work out!

The first thing you need to do after registering is set up a subscription form for readers to sign up:

There is also a counter to show off how many subscribers you have:

After you have some readers subscribe, you can start creating your emails, even customising them to make them look like an addition to your blog.

If you have a mailing list or you are looking to add one as a feature of your blog, I recommend you check out Zookoda. Being a part of IZEA, you can be assured that it’s a high quality tool made especially to help you maximise your readership.

If you’re interested in signing up to my new email newsletter, feel free to subscribe using the form above.