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Thought for the Day - Is Delivery to Your Email Better Than Visiting a Site Each Day?
By:Rob Favero
Many people enjoy reading a thought for the day. It's a popular and fun way to focus your mind on a significant slice of life that you might normally overlook.
The thoughts expressed are typically profound or humorous or both. The enjoyment of a thought for the day comes when you recognize a familiar and entertaining aspect of human nature in the words you read.
Internet sites that provide a daily thought have two primary ways of delivering their service. The first is to post a thought each day on a Web site. A user of the service must visit the site each day to collect their "thought." The second is to provide daily delivery to a person's email inbox. Users of this service receive their "thought" automatically.
But is one method of delivery superior to the other?
As with most things in life, the answer is, "It depends." Each method has its own set of pros and cons.
We'll look at the pros and cons of each method, so you can decide which one will work best for you. For this comparison we will consider only those services that are no-cost.
* Web Site Delivery - Pros *
- There is generally no sign up. You just surf to the Web site each day to see the day's thought.
- There is nothing to do stop the service. Just quit visiting the Web site when you no longer want the service.
- Service can be on the spur of the moment. If you have a personality that resists habitual activities, you can collect your thought whenever you choose.
- You control the variety. If, on a particular day you are not in the mood for the thoughts from a particular site, you can skip that day's service.
* Web Site Delivery - Cons *
- Visiting the Web site can be a hassle. It takes direct action on your part to go the Web site. This may mean finding the link in a long list of favorites/bookmarks in your browser.
- Visiting the Web site can be a hassle (reason 2). Many providers of no-pay services on the Internet need a way to generate income to keep the site going. Retrieving your thought of the day may require you to wade through numerous ads and deal with pop-up/pop-under windows.
- You may not get thoughts on a consistent basis. Many people who value a thought for the day do so because it helps them manage their stress or life focus. On a hectic day, when you probably most need a focusing thought, you may forget to surf to the Web site amid the flurry of that day's activities.
* Email Delivery - Pros *
- Delivery is consistent. Your daily thought will arrive in your inbox on busy days and relaxing days, regardless of whether or not you remember to collect it.
- It's a piece of useful email that you can process quickly. It takes just a moment to read the email and extract what's useful. Of how many emails you receive is that true?
- It's easy to pass along. If you find one of the thoughts receive particularly meaningful or entertaining, it's a simple matter to forward it to a friend.
* Email Delivery - Cons *
- You have to sign up for the service. Signing up can be a bit of a hassle, because the process to sign up may be complex. Unfortunately, complex sign ups have become commonplace because of the existence of spam. Fortunately, the complex sign ups go a long way to prevent spam.
- You have to give some personal information. For example, you will be required to give your email address. Fortunately, the possibility of your email address being used for spam is becoming less of a concern. Companies that provide email inboxes are becoming increasingly effective at preventing the illegitimate use of your email address.
- Stopping the service requires action. If you want to cancel your subscription to the service, you will have to take specific action to unsubscribe.
- The email may contain advertising. As with the Web site delivery method, providers of the service will often feel a need to have some way to generate income for their service. Fortunately, since the actual content -- the daily thought -- is so small, the provider of the service has real pressure to keep the amount of advertising to a minimum.
So each method of delivery has some significant advantages and some important disadvantages. Think through the pros and cons of each method and decide which are the most value to you. Then, find one or more services you like and start spicing up your day with the energizing thoughts these services can provide.
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Rob Favero is the creator of the Laugh Vitamin Humorous Thought for the Day web site. It provides a humorous thought on a daily basis. In July a new service will deliver the thought for the day to subscribers' email inbox.
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