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Current ArticlesThis feed's current articles are shown below. Subscribe for updates to all the content available in this feed, or click through here to see the original article.  All things being equal, the new FeedBlitz v4 user interface will be on by default for all users starting Monday, January 16th, 9:00am eastern. You can get a jump start on it by visiting www.feedblitz.com/f?v4 if you haven't already done so.
Read the whole entry »  The FeedBlitz email parser integration that enables subscribers to be automatically added to one of your lists has been modified since we launched it. If the list you are adding to is an autoresponder, FeedBlitz will add the subscriber and activate the autoresponder automatically. It doesn't feel right to make them go through dual opt in in this...
Read the whole entry »  I will be the guest on the NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing System) weekly training call tomorrow evening, Wednesday, January 4th at 8pm eastern. Join me and David Perdew for an hour of education and chat on using email marketing profitably for digital products and your site. Hope you can join me - use the guest registration process if you're not a...
Read the whole entry »   Following yesterday's announcement of our Pinterest integrations, today it is Google+'s turn. Google+ has been added to FeedBlitz in two key areas to enable end-user sharing of your posts and links to their G+ circles:
- As a new social media feed "flare" added to FeedBlitz RSS feeds (enabled at RSS - Social Media), enabling RSS and email...
Read the whole entry »  I'm happy to announce that FeedBlitz has added comprehensive support for Pinterest - the increasingly popular social pinboard service - to FeedBlitz's RSS (and by extension, blog to email) subscription services.
What we've enabled is:
- The ability to splice your pins into your FeedBlitz version of your blog's RSS feed (via...
Read the whole entry »   I'll admit it. I'm one of those writers that used to blush when being called a blogger. My embarrassment was based on stereotypes, of course, and I'll confess them here only to prove a point. I didn't like being called a blogger because bloggers weren't artists. Bloggers were in it for the money and would do anything to make a sale. And if they...
Read the whole entry »  It's time.
Starting this afternoon, active FeedBlitz publishers (well over 72,000 of you!) will be getting an email, letting you know that your account has been readied for the new capabilities of FeedBlitz v4.
FeedBlitz v4 is significantly easier to use than the current version, enabling you to work faster. If you've found the...
Read the whole entry »  In the previous two posts, I've discussed three of the most engaging landing pages you have (and that you're almost certainly not monetizing properly), and gave some suggestions for what you could do to change that.
Before I wrap up with the FeedBlitz "how-to" however, one point I didn't emphasize earlier but should is this: You should...
Read the whole entry »  In the previous post I pointed out that there were three landing pages on everyone's web site that are typically ignored or forgotten about from a monetization perspective. They are the landing pages that appear in an email list's dual opt-in transaction cycle:
- The "Check your inbox now" landing page;
- The "Thank you for joining the...
Read the whole entry »  Landing pages. Generically, landing pages are the pages where a user starts to interact with your site in some way, usually after an search, or possibly clicking on an ad. One of the things that Internet Marketers (and any business online) spend a lot of time optimizing are their landing pages.
The landing page is your last best shot at...
Read the whole entry »  UnWord
 2011-11-16 12:47 UTC by Phil Hollows
 Microsoft Word, part of the Microsoft Office suite, is a great word processor. I use it myself for documents, e-books; and I use the rest of the Office suite for email, spreadsheets etc. It's a great desktop app.
It's really easy to copy / paste from Word into a blog post to make creating pretty blog posts with good spell checking super...
Read the whole entry »  In my earlier post about using Suppression Lists in email marketing, I explained how suppression lists are used to restrict to whom a third party an send a mailing. They're important because selling a direct sponsored email blast to your list can be the best form of one-off email monetization available to you, so you need to be able to use them if...
Read the whole entry »  One of the great ways to raise extra revenues from your list is by selling advertising sponsorships. The more responsive your list, the better rate (usually expressed as a CPM, cost per thousand, value) you can expect to get. Higher response rates tend to accompany focused, targeted audiences, so if your site is the industry leader in couponing or...
Read the whole entry »  Here's the video of my BlogWorld L.A. presentation on email marketing and blog monetization, a.k.a. "The Money's In the List."
If you can't see the video, it's available on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/Wz0RGHbq9F4
Read the whole entry »  They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
From "For the Fallen" by Robert Laurence Binyon
For the benefit of my mostly US audience, in the UK and many other countries we buy paper...
Read the whole entry »  The prior two posts have been talking about list hygiene - keeping your list's quality up by removing non-engaging subscribers - and described how to use a re-engagement campaign to do it. This post describes how to do it in FeedBlitz, everyone's favorite premium FeedBurner alternative.
New FeedBlitz Custom Fields
What you're going to...
Read the whole entry »  In the first part of this mini-series on list hygiene I talked about why list hygiene was a good idea, and outlined a typical re-engagement program sequence that you would send to non-responding readers as part of the process.
Before you head off and do that first, though, a few tips on best practice.
How Many Non-Responding Readers...
Read the whole entry »  Why You Should Clean Up Your List
Keeping a good quality list is important, because it means that you can get greater engagement from it, which in turn will enable you to derive greater revenues.
It's also important from a deliverability perspective. ISPs track how many emails of yours are opened, and one factor they use to determine...
Read the whole entry »  I was delighted to be able to give a presentation at BlogWorld in Los Angeles a couple of days ago. It's about:
- How to learn from social media leaders to help grow your list faster;
- Some ideas to inspire the community on ways to make money from their otherwise free blog content;
- Some tips and techniques for automating your email...
Read the whole entry »  09:55 AM: Repairs are done; we are now catching up on missed mailings. If a scheduled email was missed please DO NOT force it out now; we will catch up and send it soon.
08:55 AM: A problem with a server has affected overnight mailings. We are fixing it now and will run the missed mailings as soon as we can.
The issue will also prevent on...
Read the whole entry »  In yesterday's post about setting up your RSS properly I talked about the risk of getting trapped with a particular feed service because your subscribers are subscribing to their feed URL on their domain, not your URL on your domain.
That's bad enough. What's worse in FeedBurner's case is that people may have set up their feeds years ago (or...
Read the whole entry »  RSS. It's an essential technology underpinning much of the modern web's content, social or otherwise. But, like email subscriptions, it's often poorly implemented. Worse, decisions can be made "because everybody else does it this way" that can really mess things up for you later as your blog grows.
And it boils down, in many ways, to just...
Read the whole entry »  I'm speaking about (surprise!) email marketing - and, more importantly, how to use it to improve your ability to monetize your site - at BlogWorld next week in Los Angeles. It's going to be a fun and informative and practical session; I guarantee you'll leave it with some easy changes to up your earnings. If you're going, I hope to see you in my...
Read the whole entry »  Update October 14th - The campaign's been moved to Novemeber.
A quick heads-up to bloggers grandfathered in on our free service from before 2009 and who are not using their own graphic design template for their mailings. We have a new ad campaign going live soon, maybe as soon as tomorrow, and for up to about 10 days thereafter.
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