5 Lead Generating WordPress plugins For Your Business Blog

By Matt Dunlap on September 15th, 2009 5 comments
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Your blog is passive for the most part… but you can make it proactive with email notifications. Just make sure they are opt in and the subscriber can opt out. You would be surprised how many people want your newsletter or to get your blog posts via email.

  1. Comment Relish – This plugin will send an email to new commentors on your blog welcoming them and thanking them for joining the conversation. The savvy marketer will include links to email newsletters and other automatic notifications. It only sends to the commentors email on first comment.
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  2. Page Peel – I love these ads. So simple yet they look really custom. Best of all they are very unobtrusive. They sit in the upper right corner of your blog just waiting for someone to mouse over them. You will need to have some photoshop skills to edit the page curl image.
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  3. What would Seth Godin do? – This plugin uses cookies to display a message to new readers pushing them to subscribe to your feed. Been around for a while, you have probably seen it on a few blogs by now.
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  4. PHPList wordpress plugin – I used this a long time ago, but don’t anymore because I now use professional list managers. If you use PHPList this is a great plugin to easily add to your sidebar
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  5. Next Question – I made this plugin because many of my posts where more then 1 post. I hate going over 600 words, so i try to slip up my long posts. This plugin adds a next post teaser with a question. It also has a link to subscribe to your feed or email newsletter.
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5 Responses to 5 Lead Generating WordPress plugins For Your Business Blog

Gerald Weber
Comment added: 16 September, 2009 at 10:26 pm

I’ve heard of most of these. I use WWSGD. I’ve never heard of the next question one. That seems kind of cool. I’ll give it a look see. :-)

Mike the Sarasota Real Estate guy
Comment added: 25 July, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Matt, do you know what plugin add an styled optin form and/or RSS sign up to bottom of each post? I’ve seen other websites using something that includes the site owner’s or guest blogger’s photo and powerful hook to optin or sign up for RSS.

TIA,
Mike

Matt Dunlap
Comment added: 25 July, 2010 at 8:36 pm

There are a few plugins that add an rss feed link, but I don’t think I have seen one that adds the RSS email subscribe form.
I highly recommend WP greet box http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-greet-box/

It adds a message either before or after your post with a subscribe link to your RSS. What makes it so cool is that the plugin can display different messages based on the referring websites. So if a user comes to your website from Twitter, you can display a different message then if someone came from Google. When a visitor comes from a google search, the plugin will also show related posts based on the search keyword… Bottom line, Get it

I’ve also used Subscribe Remind: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-remind/
Much more simple…

Hope that helps

Mike the Sarasota Real Estate guy
Comment added: 25 July, 2010 at 8:39 pm

Thanks, Matt. I appreciate the recommendations. I’ll look at each. Currently, I’m using WWSGD – as a nice little hello to new & returning visitors. Nice but not as functional as I’d like.

Matt Dunlap
Comment added: 25 July, 2010 at 9:04 pm

Yep I used that one for a while… If you like WWSGD, you’ll love WP greet box!

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