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Are you a blogger? You must read this! Goodbye #Feedburner Hello #Mailchimp

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you may have received an email update recently from Feedburner stating that the blog feed has moved or is obsolete.

Whaaaaaaat?!! Caaaaahrazzzy. Weird.

Have no fear. I’m still here.

This is like a public service announcement LOL for blog post subscribers. I will try not to bore the hell outta ya. I hope this post bears no resemblance to a manual. Or anything official. I thought I better explain why you had a notification from feedburner this week. This is a Lucille Ball moment : Ahhhh Lucy, you have some ‘xplainin to do !!!

I didn’t want you to think I flew the coop. Or left dodge.

I’m still here.

In my pyjamas.

Life is just better in pyjamas.

Did you wonder why you had a weird email from feedburner? Did you think :

Whaaat the what what ??!! Where’d she go?

Did she fall in deep love with palm trees and give up blogging for endless Piña Coladas ?

NOPE.

{although I considered it}

Dear Feedburner,

Liar liar pants on fire. The blog feed is not obsolete. After the confusing email notification, I have considered blogging ~~impaired~~ sipping piña coladas.

With love,

Lynne (and the CHIMPS at Mailchimp) xx

The truth is that the RSS feed is not obsolete….it is just handled by mailchimp now and not feedburner.

The only thing that is OBSOLETE is the body perm that I insisted on having when I was in grade nine. #BiggestMistakeOfMyLifetime. Who knew that an afro could last soooo long?

The Blog RSS feed is ACTIVE and you will continue to receive your email updates in your inbox {by the monkeys}. How cool is that?! They have been pimping out your email inbox for the past month. Behind the scenes monkey fun.

The CHIMPS have already been rocking your box. Your email inbox, that is.

HOW ?

You may have noticed that the email notifications once looked like this :

Feedburner benefits :

Scheduled blog posts.
Summary format.
You can go hog wild by adding a photo and a title. Whoop. Whoop.
That’s it. That’s all. That is where the sexiness ended.

I needed more fireworks for us. See, I was thinking of you. And cheap thrills. If I am going to send a blog post out, I want it to be damn sexy. Mighty fine. Photo friendly. Vibrant. Rock the house. Mind blowing. Go big or go home. Knock your socks off. Outta this world. Uhhm…. Epic !!!!

Before I had MailChimp, I had to get my kicks by inviting rockstars to sleep in my treehouse. P.S. I would do that again…with or without the chimps. Shhhhhh.

So what did I do? I switched to MAILCHIMP for email subscription delivery about a month ago. I was all quiet-like when I made the switch away from FEEDBURNER. Making changes to a blog/website is tough work in the trenches. Tough work to make the work appear seamless.

Small changes, big changes, growth and change. Rinse and Repeat.

Bloggers are like swans.

We look all fine, dandy and graceful on the surface.

We are paddling like hell underneath.

Mailchimp had so many more features to offer a blogger and blog subscriber. I just couldn’t resist :

Content rich features
Beautiful layout for blog posts and newsletters
Interactive laser focused campaigns
Blogger bliss in my books
In depth analytics and daily reports (they are kinda fun to read. SHOCK. I know)
Successful customer base. Like millions of happy monkey customers.
Chimp chatter box (need I say more?!) Ok. I will …..
Sense of humour

It was monkey love at first sight.

So what’s new?

Here is what the pimped chimped blog posts/updates look like now :

Are you a blogger ? You will love this :

With Mailchimp, you can click on each of those header links from WITHIN your email notification and dance all over the blog right from the inbox. Kick up your heels and DANCE DANCE DANCE. Celebrate !

The mailchimps are not only HILARIOUS…they run a fine tuned engine of feed delivery. If you want to check them out, they are swinging from this tree: MAILCHIMP . It is free.

Nice price, huh? Free.

The word FREE has a nice ring to it, don’tcha think ?!

I wish dessert was free.

The only thing better than

free dessert

and free monkey business

is when this happens :

So yes, the blog RSS feed moved. But I am like a horse…if my feed moves… I go where the FEED is. Then I eat it. Then I wave my tail and fart. My job is done.