Starting a newsletter

[journeyoftheanimals]

Hello all. I am starting up a animal based newsletter. The newsletter will contain stuff such as trivia, odd laws, news and some other stuff. All of this will be animal based. Other then my forum and a few other forums that I do not run is there a good way to get people to sign up for a newsletter?

I figure once it starts up I will start having people be forwarding it to friends and so forth. The goal of this is to develop a large reader base and therefore have more possible customers once my online pet supply company starts up.

The store will not be opening for at least 6 months from now due to lack of funds. So I figure in the meantime I will be trying to grow my presence on the net.

Thank you for your time and replies.


*edit to add
Silly me, I should have added a link to the newsletter sign up.
http://www.journeyoftheanimals.com/newsletter.php

[sarathy]

Through word of mouth you can get your friends and friends of friends to sign up.

[ipwatchdog]

I would just put up original content on your website and then offer a newsletter sign up link prominently on each page.

I have done a newsletter for years, but I am starting to think that the way to go is blogging. There are so many social networks that you can promote your blog on, you can allow others to join and comment, and you do not have to publish on as regular a schedule.

Good luck.

-Gene