There isn’t one company that manages all three of these services but most services are built as such that they can interface or plug-in to one another. We’ve suggested using WordPress.org as your website content management system (it’s easy, well-built and free). Any webhost worth anything will offer wordpress hosting and anyone, regardless of technical skills, should be able to manage their website via WordPress. If you use a newsletter management program (really, it’s an email management service), like AWeber, I believe that you can automatically program (an autoresponder) the paid newsletter product to go out based on a user’s actrivity, like payment or submission of email address.

In the beginning, I’m pretty sure that your consumption will be as such that you can manually send out the paid product to paid subscribers. That’s what I did in the beginning.

Even using Google Checkout, which I recommend for its ease, you’ll have to plug in some code and manually approve credit cards — so, there’s some manual work involved.

Hit me a zack.miller at gmail.com if you want to chat more about this.

There isn’t one company that manages all three of these services but most services are built as such that they can interface or plug-in to one another. We’ve suggested using WordPress.org as your website content management system (it’s easy, well-built and free). Any webhost worth anything will offer wordpress hosting and anyone, regardless of technical skills, should be able to manage their website via WordPress. If you use a newsletter management program (really, it’s an email management service), like AWeber, I believe that you can automatically program (an autoresponder) the paid newsletter product to go out based on a user’s actrivity, like payment or submission of email address.

In the beginning, I’m pretty sure that your consumption will be as such that you can manually send out the paid product to paid subscribers. That’s what I did in the beginning.

Even using Google Checkout, which I recommend for its ease, you’ll have to plug in some code and manually approve credit cards — so, there’s some manual work involved.

Hit me a zack.miller at gmail.com if you want to chat more about this.

I know that I need a minimum of three (3) services to start a newsletter

1) Website
2) Billing Program
3) Newsletter Management Program

My question is how do they interface with each other?

For instance, let’s say someone reads my blog or seeking alpha, and they go to my website. Are there specific webhosting programs you recommend that work well with the billing programs or will any hosting service work? If someone subscribes by paying with my billing service, will it automatically tell by newsletter management service to begin sending them the newsletter?

Thanks and great site!

Matt

I know that I need a minimum of three (3) services to start a newsletter

1) Website
2) Billing Program
3) Newsletter Management Program

My question is how do they interface with each other?

For instance, let’s say someone reads my blog or seeking alpha, and they go to my website. Are there specific webhosting programs you recommend that work well with the billing programs or will any hosting service work? If someone subscribes by paying with my billing service, will it automatically tell by newsletter management service to begin sending them the newsletter?

Thanks and great site!

Matt