Thanks for your interest in subscribing to keep up with what we’re posting!
If you subscribed from one of the forms in a page or post, you likely were subscribed to “general newsletters” and a specific content area depending on the page on which you subscribed. We think “keep it simple” is best for most.
But for those who really want to get specific, we have a LOT of options on our Newsletters page.
However, the way our form setup works, it’s difficult to get really specific there about email newsletter frequency of our various lists.
Here’s the email newsletter frequency FAQ to make it easier for you to find what you want:
Table of Contents
Email Newsletter Frequency and What Type of Content You’ll Receive
General Newsletters
“General newsletters.” Our intention, here is to start sending out a larger email newsletter on a quarterly basis again which will include some content you may have missed or even some content that’s not directly a post from our website. It will include multiple different types of content.
You may also get an occasional newsletter if we need to sent out an important notification about our website to all subscribers.
But, in general, this selection won’t see you getting too many emails from us.
One of Everything
One of everything is for people who REALLY want it all. But you won’t get it ALL by subscribing to this. Our site was initially created as a PNW and travel blog. We have other areas where we might post about…recipes or other things. HOWEVER, subscribe here and you’ll get a daily email whenever we publish a new main post about the PNW, travel, local events, photography, cycling, gear reviews, other outdoor activities…
But it will NOT contain new recipes, new items from our shop, notifications about any contests, raffles, giveaways, etc, nor will it contain information about new groups or features on our website or “about the blog” type posts.
Weekly Everything
Weekly everything is…just that, or at least it will be soon. This newsletter gets sent with any new main content that we’ve published that week, and if we’ve published a new post, we’ll ALSO add extra stuff onto it — notifications about any new recipes, trivia, polls, giveaways, etc. It will, however NOT contain shop content.
“Hubs”
If you see a selection that has the word “hub” in it, that is a monthly newsletter on that topic.
It may be a mix of things related to that topic. For instance, in the cycling hub newsletter, you might find bike posts, bike gear reviews, a book about cycling if we’ve reviewed one, upcoming cycling events. However, a newsletter will only get published that month if we’ve published at least one main post in that area. Recipes and is also like a hub page, and is monthly.
Raffles and Contents
At the point I’m writing this, we haven’t done a raffle for some time — but I think they’re fun and we’re thinking of doing little raffles again. As raffles are a time-sensitive thing, new raffles will be sent out whenever one starts to run. You might also get notified of upcoming raffles in a general newsletter.
New Groups
This is sort of a “whenever” newsletter as we need to configure it individually when there are new groups. We may try to customize it a bit – for instance, if we see you’ve subscribed to new groups and you subscribe to “Bike Hub” and we see there’s a new bike group, we’ll let you know about it.
PNWWiki
This is our glossary section. What we’ll post there is a grab bag of new terms. We may add relevant ones to individual hub newsletters, but if you subscribe to this, you’ll get a weekly list of new additions sent to you.
Shop
We have disabled our shop page. We realized that we made most of our sales of our enamel pins and such things on Etsy, and doing machine embroidery was keeping us from doing the things we really like. However, we may be using our ecommerce features on an occasional basis to list some items. If we do send out any shop emails it will be on an individual and not very frequent basis.
News about our calendar for event organizers
This is just a list for updates on the status of our calendar in case we make any important changes.
Member features and news and Blog News and Announcements
This will be sent out weekly if we’ve posted anything new that week that’s on the status of our blog, new features on our website, etc. “State of the blog” sort of stuff for one, new features for another.
New Polls
These will be sent out on a per-post basis as polls are sometimes time-oriented. The poll may be about anything and may be user-submitted. We may add subject appropriate polls to our hub newsletters.
Off-Topic Posts
This is a grab bag. Occasionally, we might want to write something to add information to, for instance, our machine embroidery if we keep doing that. Or we might be just dying to write something WordPress – related. Or an opinion piece.
Off topic posts is like a box of chocolates…
You will end up with…polls, trivia quizzes, both on and off-topic, recipes, craft posts, WordPress posts, opinions, and blog news…whatever goes into the “off topic” section.
We will send this on a weekly digest basis.
New Galleries
We’re finally getting our photo galleries together. If you subscribe to new galleries, you’ll get a weekly digest of any new galleries we’ve added that week. Just a caveat: we are currently adding some old galleries to the gallery pages we’ve just set up, so you may get notified about existing galleries as we re-add them, depending on when you subscribe.
“New galleries” does not include member or group galleries unless we specifically decide to feature them, but the galleries here MAY be ones that accept content from members.
“I want more email!”
If you don’t want to subscribe to every main post on the website, but you do want more email than the monthly “hub” newsletter for that content area, check this option.
What will happen if you do this:
- You will get new single articles for that content area sent to you.
- You may also get occasional offers from us or our partners if we find something that appears interesting. Note that we do not furnish your email to outside parties but we do belong to some affiliate programs and sometimes see an interesting product or sale.
An example would be if we’re an associate of Wahoo fitness and we see that they have an awesome sale going on. Perhaps people interested in our bike hub would be interested in this, but the sale ends before the next monthly newsletter comes out. If you check the “I want more email” option, and you are subscribe to the “bike hub” we may send such promotions to you. - You will continue to get the monthly hub newsletter.
In the Future
We may add additional lists — or remove lists that no longer apply. You will NOT be automatically subscribed to any new lists, but we may add a notification about it in our quarterly newsletter “what’s new” section.