A now "deceased" website on RSS marketing and RSS publishing - a look at the history of internet marketing

Rok Hrastnik

A Note from the Author: The RSS Diary is Closed

rssdiary.marketingstudies.net was built to help marketers get the most from RSS. However, much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.

Since I've moved on to other interests in internet marketing years ago, the site is now officially closed, and only remains online as an archive of a part of internet marketing's past. This is how we used to see RSS between 2004 - 2007. We don't, anymore, but there's no harm in having a small part of our past available online.

With that, I'm also making the e-book that started all of this, Unleas the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS, available for free download.

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Challenge to the RSS Industry: RSS Metrics Standardization

 
 

Alex Barnett, talking about "Unleash" (had to give it shorter name), considers the problem of RSS metrics:

"Metrics and measurement is the Achilles heel of RSS marketing today. Although the guide goes into great depth on this issue and has useful advice on this topic, it is written in a context where no one can agree on the RSS metrics standards that will make sense to the average media buyer or performance-driven marketer. Hopefully the IAB will have the opportunity to read this e-book and jolt them into action."

Personally, I'm not to hopeful that the IAB will do much in this area, unless perhaps pushed by its stronger members going in to RSS.

I do however believe that we, the RSS industry, should discuss this problem and come up with at least a basis for a solution that could, over time, become more widely accepted by the marketing industry.

If anyone is interested in discussing this, please either e-mail me or post your comment below.

Yes, everyone involved in RSS can take this as a "call to arms" and even a challenge ...

Unleash the Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS
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Rok Hrastnik is an experienced international internet marketer and manager in Central & Eastern Europe, lead by the conviction that marketers should first be driven by measurable business outcomes: sales and profits.

He is currently serving as the International Internet Director at Studio Moderna, the leading CEE direct response TV & multi-channel retailer, managing their internet operations across 22 countries (Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Turkey, Romania, the Baltics and others).