18 Feb 2008 03:56:57 | David Lee Venters
A Couple of years ago I was sitting their with my small tiny
website reading all about blogs and RSS feeds. At that time I
had just sent a email to my opot in list of about 1000, and I
was reading all abouthow with all the spam filters and tons of
emails in their Inbox people are less likely to get your email
or even read it once they get it.
Then I read something about RSS Feeds or Real Simple
Syndication, and to cut a long story short have been using RSS
Feeds since then.
However I was also reading a article a couple of days ago about
how only 11% of people who have blogs actually utilise RSS.
To me this seemed odd as RSS feeds and Blogs go together like
macaroni and cheese and their are millions and millions of blogs.
So for people who dont know what RSS feeds are its a way of
getting your message across to your customer, however where as
email marketing is done at the time the marketer wants, with RSS
feeds the customer or reader is more in control.
So for example if you had a blog newsletter and syndicated its
RSS feed every week or every day and whenever the reader had
time they would read your feed with a newsreader, on the other
hand if you sent your newsletter by email it might not even
arrive at the persons Inbox or even if it did maynot even get
read
So in my view if you have a blog its a no brainer to syndicate
your site via RSS and even f you dont have a blog but always add
fresh content to your website, whether that be text picture or
audio a RSS feed is the logical choice.
The easist and free way to create an RSS feed is to use
Feedburner , plus also they give you the option to have people
read your feed from their cell or mobile phone.
About Author :
David Lee Venters has been involved with showing people how to
start a home business for five years and hails from SW London Uk
http://www.davidleeventers.blogspot.com