Are You A Subscriber? We Need Your Input!
Too much or too little?
The Daily Beagle is in the early days, and one of the big questions is the frequency of the content subscribers are receiving. We don’t want to flood your email inbox, but we also don’t want to change the format if doing so makes subscribers upset.
To avoid what would be effectively duplicate articles with polls for free and paid (which some might view as spam), there are two sections to this article, the free section for our non-paying subscriber base to give their polling, and the higher priority paying base to air theirs.
So, help us avoid annoying you, give us your opinions below!
A ‘summary’ would be basically a plain, links-only article, to both Daily Beagle articles, and sometimes external third party articles of interest. It would incur more work, but it’d also reduce the frequency of newsletters from The Daily Beagle.
For paid subscribers, I’d like to add you can also suggest other arrangements besides what is listed in the poll, given the paying readers are effectively my employers now.
If you have any other feedback or criticisms for The Daily Beagle, we encourage you to write in the comments below.
Other possibilities (the polls are limited to 5 options only, unfortunately), include:
Only sending a maximum of 2 - 3 articles per day, and then any other extra articles get published to the Substack without sending out a newsletter
Dropping viewpoint/opinion/commentary/political articles from the newsletter cycle and focusing on only sending newsletters with news reporting/factual articles only
Dropping newsletters entirely and sending no summary, and just encouraging members to read the Substack from time-to-time, a bit like media news service
Feel free to write your suggestions below. We will also be rolling out a user feedback poll for a limited time on articles where people can vote to indicate what they prefer to be sent.
I'd prefer a daily summary with links for full articles me (paid subscriber). Opinion articles, unlike commentary and political commentary, are of least interest to me. I still have not read an article on Trump, not because I was offended, but because the subtitle assumed that I would not be smart enough to make my reading decision without being predisposed to one. That's not to say, the article like this, from you, in the vast global ocean of Anti Trump propaganda, sounded a bit like a click-bait.
I probably will like the article when I finally read it. It must be timeless, right?!
Overall, whichever way works for you, please keep the work coming! Thank you.