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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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It's Official: Ads in RSS Feeds Do Not Turn Away Subscribers

 
 

With all the negativism RSS advertising has been getting from the more hard-core parts of the blogosphere it's a wonder that anyone's daring to try placing ads in their feeds at all.

OK, it's not that bad, but there is quite a great deal of people being worried that ads in RSS feeds will turn away subscribers.

Well, I just had the most amazing interview on RSS metrics today with Dick Costolo of Feedburner and Stuart Watson of Syndicate IQ.

Among other things Dick shared their metrics based on the 60,000 feeds managed through their service and made an official statement that feeds with ads are not losing subscribers and have not begun losing subscribers since implementing ads.

The interview was quite long, so we'll be releasing it in installements throught-out the forthcoming week, putting the focus on RSS metrics.

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).