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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.  Video in email has long been a source of frustration. Thanks to the efforts of virus writers, malware developers and security holes the vast majority of email client software will not run embedded video players as they pose a security risk. The videos don't display, and for bloggers and emailers making use of embedded video it is a source of...
Read the whole entry »  Yesterday we started a promotional mailing to a subset of FeedBlitz publishers to offer a special upgrade incentive. To make it more real we wrote a custom script that would show how much a publisher might save if they accepted that offer - which necessitated running the email outside of FeedBlitz's standard mechanisms and processes.
That...
Read the whole entry »  DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Email) is an email authentication technology that enables recipients to determine whether an email is genuine. (I'm simplifying here, but that's the gist of it). DKIM builds on what's known as public key encryption and domain name technologies, and is being increasingly adopted by ISPs and corporations alike to help...
Read the whole entry »  You can now seamlessly import subscribers from FeedBurner into FeedBlitz's email subscription services - without having to send an import notification. It's all done using our new FeedBurner migration wizard.
The FeedBurner migration wizard greatly simplifies and speeds the migration process from FeedBurner to FeedBlitz (FeedBlitz is a...
Read the whole entry »  FeedBlitz is now welcoming service provider partners into our new affiliate program. The program enables service providers to:
Differentiate their offerings by automatically offering FeedBlitz email newsletters and RSS stats tracking to their client web sites; Earn recurring revenue (up to 40%) from upgrading referrals.Our first... Read the whole entry »  Mailings are very much delayed this morning; please bear with us while we ckear up the backlog.
Read the whole entry »  Having to due a litle impromptu maintenance; will be back as quickly as we can.
Update: 12:30am, Feb 2nd. Took lomger than expected but we're back at 100% now.
Read the whole entry »  Bloggers using Comment Luv to help boost their SEO (search engine optimization) results have long had a dilemma when it cam to RSS feed stats tracking services like FeedBurner. If they wanted the best search engine results for the link included by CommentLuv in their comment, they had to disable RSS item tracking, because link tracking redirected...
Read the whole entry »  Publishers using FeedBlitz's email marketing services to automate their subscriber contact can now fine-tune their daily and weekly mailings. Not only can daily users pick their daily delivery time zone (we've had that for years), but they can also now pick a time window within that time zone for delivery. Daily time windows are three hours wide....
Read the whole entry »  ...but they're in progress and will be in an inbox near you shortly.
Update 10:17am eastern: All caught up. If for some reason you think your mailing still didn't go out you can run an on demand mailing at Newsletters Mailings Send an On Demand Mailing.
Read the whole entry »  What better way to start the new year than by saving a chunk of change?
Save 33% to 50% (really!) if you upgrade and move to an annual payment plan.
Save 10% if you upgrade from the ad-funded service and pay monthly.
It's a fabulous offer for publishers using our free, ad-funded email marketing services, and is available right now....
Read the whole entry »   Are your mailings doing as well as they could be? Probably not, based on a recent survey of the FeedBlitz database (see results below).
Why is that?
Well, to get the best value from your blog, your mailings and your mailing list you need to bring together multiple factors to persuade your subscribers to stay engaged, open your message,...
Read the whole entry »  FeedBlitz users (bloggers, email marketers, new media companies) can now specify a custom URL to send subscribers to at the end of the dual opt-in process. If used, it replaces the current FeedBlitz default landing page.
You can therefore redirect subscribers activating their subscriptions to a thank you page, your site, your current offer,...
Read the whole entry »  Custom fields, which allow you to capture lead information, segment mailings and personalize content, have now been enabled for FeedBlitz email subject lines as well as the email content itself.
If you're capturing custom fields, you can increase attention and the likelihood that your emails will be opened using customization. The feature...
Read the whole entry »  Our RSS service is hosted in the cloud with Amazon AWS / EC2. They have had a power outage overnight and apparently the FeedBlitz RSS Service lives on one of the "remaining instances" that they are "continuing to work on" - nothing we can do about this until Amazon comes back up. More real-time updates will be on Twitter -
Read the whole entry »  Metrics matter - it's rule #1 for marketing programs. If you can't measure the success of a program (whatever success means to you) then you have no idea how well it's working and whether you should invest in it, tune it, or kill it. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Simple, really.
So online marketers invest a lot of time setting...
Read the whole entry »  If you were affected by the ho-hum availability of the FeedBlitz RSS service recently (we're A-OK now, by the way), here's why: Traffic jumped by a factor of 17 over this time last week and it took us too long to get to grips with it, for which I apologize. I hope this post will help explain why that happened, what we did and didn't do, and what we...
Read the whole entry »  This has been bugging me the last few days as we've quietly extended support for commenting within FeedBlitz (FYI comment links now appear for Blogger blogs whereas they didn't before, for example, and new comment icons appear in FeedBlitz RSS feeds where appropriate).
But it kept on striking me as odd - why do feeds force subscribers to...
Read the whole entry »  We'll be running some maintenance on FeedBlitz late Saturday evening, US Eastern. We aim to keep any disruption to a minimum during the process.
Read the whole entry » Accessibility
 2009-09-25 01:56 UTC by Phil Hollows  FeedBlitz has added an audio version of the visual CAPTCHA (which has also been slightly updated) used on all FeedBlitz subscription forms. The API has also been extended to add a new audio tag to the captcha XML.
Read the whole entry »  FeedBlitz has long had a very easy way for marketers to enable dynamic user-defined newsletters using the tracking API call:
http://www.feedblitz.com/f?Track=<user-defined-url>&publisher=<publisher-id>
where you substitute in the appropriate values (your <publisher-ID> is your subscriber ID, visible at My Account /...
Read the whole entry »  Since its inception, FeedBlitz has been automatically converting single RSS feeds into formatted, indexed, tracked email marketing newsletters. There are services - such as FeedBlitz's RSS service and Yahoo Pipes - that allow multiple feeds to be merged, blended and spliced into one, so it's also easy to munge multiple feeds into a single...
Read the whole entry »  The FeedBlitz delivery metrics report now includes percentages as well as raw numbers for your opens, forwards, bounces, unsubscribes etc. The changes are part of a general effort to give publishers greater insight into their newsletters' performance.
The latest changes also allow you click a given schedule class to easily differentiate...
Read the whole entry »  Overnight issues have delayed mailings; we're picking up the pace now. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Update - we backfilled completely by the afternoon; services were fully functional early morning. We're reviewing what happened overnight to increase the service's robustness to the class of failure that occurred.
©... Read the whole entry »  All RSS feeds can now have category feeds automatically, courtesy the FeedBlitz RSS service. Simply add /tag/ and then the category to any FeedBlitz RSS feed and the filter is applied.
So here is the main FeedBlitz News feed: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/feedblitz And here is every post tagged "features": Read the whole entry »
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