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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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Going For the Hard Sell?

 
 

MarketingVOX, reporting on the launch of "Unleash", makes one think about whether going for the "hard sell" on the sales page is really the best choice?

"European e-marketer Rok Hrastnik spent the last year or two researching an exhaustive review of syndication technology on the web, finally releasing to Marketingstudies.net a 550-page definitive ebook on RSS and the marketing uses of syndication. The advance copy sent to MarketingVOX is written in a detached, rational tone, in some contrast to the sales pages' hard sell copy."

Are we decreasing the value of our work by trying too hard to make the sale on our sales pages?

Or is going for the "hard sell" the only way of really getting through, especially considering all of the hyped-up offers we are contending with?

What do you think?

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).