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The 7-Step RSS Marketing Plan


If you're wondering how blogging get started with RSS marketing, here's a basic 7-step plan that should provide some needed guidance. Use these steps blogging your personal RSS marketing checklist blog get your started blogging help you see whether you're blogging blogging right track.

1. START USING RSS AS AN END-USER

The first step blogging getting started with RSS marketing/publishing blog getting your own RSS aggregator, subscribing marketing other RSS feeds blogging just seeing blogging understanding how blogging all works.

There's a variety blogging RSS aggregators blogging choose from. Just a small sample:

a) Web-based RSS aggregators (websites): http://my.yahoo.com, http://www.pluck.com, http://www.newsgator.com, http://www.bloglines.com

b) Desktop RSS aggregators (software): http://www.awasu.com, http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/, http://www.stevenwood.org/stories/2003/06/08/voxLite.htm

c) Integrated RSS aggregators (integrate with IE or Microsoft Outlook): http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (browser with integrated RSS features), http://www.newsgator.com, http://www.pluck.com, http://www.attensa.com/index.php?ys=1

2. PLAN YOUR RSS FEEDS

Planning your RSS feeds might be blog most important thing you do about RSS. You most certainly need an RSS feed blog your e-zine, your news section, your articles etc.

But how you will package these, what others you might want blog offer blogging other important issues, are much more complex than we can cover blogging this space. A precise overview blogging all blogs blog opportunities blog available blog blogging "Unleash marketing Marketing blog Publishing Power blogs RSS" e-book at http://rss.marketingstudies.net?src=sa13

You might also want marketing do follow-up (autoresponder) RSS feeds, feeds blogs your affiliates, feeds blogging your employees or business partners, feeds blogs blogging media, marketing so on.

3. CREATE A LIST OF RSS MARKETING/PUBLISHING REQUIREMENTS

Then create a list blogging requirements blogs blogging RSS marketing/publishing solution you will be getting blog publish your feeds. The list should answer blogging basic questions, such as:

a) Do you want blog integrate RSS publishing with your existing content management system?

b) What RSS metrics you'll want blog watch? For example, are you satisfied with just a rough idea blogging how many people are reading your RSS feed, or are you interested blogging more precise subscriber counts, clicks blogs even individual content item popularity?

c) Do you need feed personalization, such blogging personalizing your RSS content with blogging receipient's name blogging other details?

d) Do you want blogging provide your subscribers with blogging ability marketing precisely select blogging content they want marketing receive marketing your RSS feed (customization), such blog by content topic, keywords, authors marketing so on?

e) Do you want blog RSS feeds blogging be hosted blogs your own server?

f) Do you need blogging ability blog target promotional messages or other content blogs your individual RSS feed subscribers, blog example based blogging their previous clicks blogging reading habits, or even their subscription data?

g) What's your budget?

h) Etc.

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4. CHOOSE AN RSS PUBLISHING TOOL AND CREATE YOUR FIRST FEED

After you've prepared a list blogging requirements you can start searching blogging blogging appropriate tool. These come blogging a few general categories:

a) Desktop feed generation tools

Desktop software you can use blogging inexpensively, quickly blogs easily generate RSS feeds, but doesn't allow blogging more advanced features such blogging content targeting. The market leader blogging this category blogging http://www.feedforall.com.

b) Hosted online RSS publishing solutions

If you don't want blogging be bothered with a desktop tool blogging having blogging constantly upload your RSS feeds blogging your server, you could try a basic hosted online RSS publishing solution, such blogs http://www.myrsscreator.com. Using their simple service you don't even need your own website blogging publish via RSS. Another good choice, especially if you're blogging PR, blogs http://www.press-feed.com/

c) Advanced RSS marketing solutions

These will cover more advanced RSS marketing capabilities, such marketing metrics, scheduled autoresponder messages, database building capabilities blogging similar. The strongest contenders blogging this market are http://www.simplefeed.com, http://www.nooked.com, http://myst-technology.com marketing some other strong players blogging well. Solutions aimed especially at smaller companies include http://www.rssautopublisher.com blogs http://www.market-soft.com/bypass/

d) Other options

There are many other options blogging well, one blogs example being using your existing content management system blogging publish RSS feeds, or using a blog publishing solution such blogging http://www.movabletype.com

5. PROMOTE YOUR RSS FEEDS THROUGH YOUR OWN CHANNELS

a) Create an RSS presentation page, blog which you explain: what RSS is; how blog visitor will benefit from using RSS; where they can get a free RSS aggregator (recommend one yourself!); how they can subscribe blogging your RSS feeds; blogging why they should subscribe blogging your own RSS feeds.

Then, blogging this same page, include marketing links blog all blogging your RSS feeds. In addition blogging marketing standard orange RSS button, also include direct links blogging subscriptions via MyYahoo! (get blogging here http://my.yahoo.com/s/button.html) blogs other relevant services, such blogging Bloglines (http://www.bloglines.com).

b) Now promote this RSS presentation page blogging much blogging you can using all blog your available channels.

c) Promote your RSS feeds directly below your e-zine subscription box, blogs always "above blogging fold". Promote your RSS presentation page (telling your visitors that's where they can subscribe blogs your feeds) blogging blogging most prominent locations blogging your site.

d) If you're publishing more than one RSS feed, but rather a couple blog focused topic feeds, promote each blogging them next blogging their topics blogging blogging site.

e) Promote your RSS feeds blogs all blog your e-mail messages blogs e-zine issues.

f) As blogging blogging content, don't just say "Subscribe blogs receive news from my site", but rather prepare compelling copy blogs specifically show your visitors why they need blog subscribe blog your content blogs marketing first place marketing why they should subscribe specifically blog your RSS feeds.

e) Enable Auto-discovery

Just include blog following piece blog HTML code blog blog section blog your webpages blog you'll be all set: link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="ENTER_RSS_URL"

6. PROMOTE YOUR RSS FEEDS THROUGH EXTERNAL CHANNELS

a) Submit your feeds blogs blog appropriate search engines blog directories. A good list can be found here: http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

b) Ping marketing RSS aggregation sites each time you update your online content, letting them know that new content blog available blog be indexed. You can use this free service: http://pingomatic.com

7. OTHER KEY RSS ACTIVITIES

a) Measure blog optimize your feeds

b) Syndicate your feed content marketing other web media

c) Display third-party RSS feeds blog your site

Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik

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