PampChefJoy
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Due to an overwhelming (and I mean I am SHOCKED at how overwhelming) amount of feedback about the closure of Tasty Tidbits, I am reconsidering my next steps after the end of the year.
I had no idea so many people were dependent on my newsletter. I really didn't think so many people disliked the HO version, either.
Here is my dilemma: A major factor in my decision to close was my website. It has given me no end of grief this past year. I had a fantastic programmer that set everything up for me, and he has gone and left me high and dry... so any changes that need to be made to the programming are beyond my abilities. I have contacted a couple friends who generously donated their time to help try to fix what is going wrong (mainly these involve the scripting for the iContact interface, but in general, since the internet evolves so much, I know some of the coding on the site will be obsolete before long and start causing errors.). My friends could not fix what is going on and basically, for me to hire another programmer to fix would cost me several thousand dollars for them to just figure out what the other guy did. (Even though programming is essentially the same "language", you understand it takes awhile for one person to figure out what another person did... especially as convoluted as my site has become. I know because I requested all these little tweaks and add-ons to it as we were building it. It would be difficult for someone else to follow along.)
(Sorry this has gotten so long....)
So now I need to figure out if I decide to continue, what shape the service will take. It may or may not involve "fetching" your newsletter like you do now. So far as I can tell, there are no problems with the merging of your profile data into the newsletter. The errors only occur when trying to send it to iContact. I can provide a workaround and some who are willing to try are able to do it manually themselves. I've had to do the manual copy/paste for others. This is something I would need to consider offering as a paid service or for free if I should move forward, as the option to fix the site is the least plausible.
Any thoughts out there on what you think you would like to see? What you would be willing to settle for, how much you'd be willing to pay for it? I can't guarantee that I'd continue writing as many offerings as I do now, either... that being the other driving factor in my decision - I was simply spending too much time focusing on doing too many newsletters. Yes, I'll admit it - I was getting burnt out.
However, I also feel like I can't abandon all my loyal and supportive customers - even with 8 months' notice, so I would love to find some sort of common ground from which to build upon and develop the next phase of Tasty Tidbits.
Whatever feedback you have to share would be greatly appreciated! This business was built on input from you, and I don't intend to stop listening now
THANK YOU!!!
Joy
I had no idea so many people were dependent on my newsletter. I really didn't think so many people disliked the HO version, either.
Here is my dilemma: A major factor in my decision to close was my website. It has given me no end of grief this past year. I had a fantastic programmer that set everything up for me, and he has gone and left me high and dry... so any changes that need to be made to the programming are beyond my abilities. I have contacted a couple friends who generously donated their time to help try to fix what is going wrong (mainly these involve the scripting for the iContact interface, but in general, since the internet evolves so much, I know some of the coding on the site will be obsolete before long and start causing errors.). My friends could not fix what is going on and basically, for me to hire another programmer to fix would cost me several thousand dollars for them to just figure out what the other guy did. (Even though programming is essentially the same "language", you understand it takes awhile for one person to figure out what another person did... especially as convoluted as my site has become. I know because I requested all these little tweaks and add-ons to it as we were building it. It would be difficult for someone else to follow along.)
(Sorry this has gotten so long....)
So now I need to figure out if I decide to continue, what shape the service will take. It may or may not involve "fetching" your newsletter like you do now. So far as I can tell, there are no problems with the merging of your profile data into the newsletter. The errors only occur when trying to send it to iContact. I can provide a workaround and some who are willing to try are able to do it manually themselves. I've had to do the manual copy/paste for others. This is something I would need to consider offering as a paid service or for free if I should move forward, as the option to fix the site is the least plausible.
Any thoughts out there on what you think you would like to see? What you would be willing to settle for, how much you'd be willing to pay for it? I can't guarantee that I'd continue writing as many offerings as I do now, either... that being the other driving factor in my decision - I was simply spending too much time focusing on doing too many newsletters. Yes, I'll admit it - I was getting burnt out.
However, I also feel like I can't abandon all my loyal and supportive customers - even with 8 months' notice, so I would love to find some sort of common ground from which to build upon and develop the next phase of Tasty Tidbits.
Whatever feedback you have to share would be greatly appreciated! This business was built on input from you, and I don't intend to stop listening now
THANK YOU!!!
Joy