Make Email Fun Again!
I don’t know when the transition happened.
Email used to be fun and exciting, like you’d actually look forward to seeing that you got a new email, rather than annoyed by whatever marketing email you accidentally signed up for five years ago.
These days, most of the emails I get are shipping notifications (alright, those are okay…), emails from my child’s school, a couple of substack articles, and promotions for a new sale happening. This is after I went through and did a mass unsubscribing - it was a lot worse before.
When did email become something to loathe?
I was skeptical of creating an email inbox for my bear blog, but WOW my mind has been changed. After a few posts, I started getting actual people sending me lovely emails and wanting to discuss what I wrote!! It was shocking. People don’t like emails, why am I getting emails from real people?
Bear Blog actually made getting emails fun again.
And now if I see an email attached to a blog post that I really enjoyed, I go out of my way to send a nice note to the author! Because everybody deserves to see a nice note in their inbox that isn’t a marketing promotion or spam mail.
Go send a nice note to one of your favorite bloggers today. :)