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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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Personalized RSS in Email Marketing Platform

 
 

In addition to "free traffic with RSS in an instant" new services and RSS aggregators, RSS marketing & publishing solutions seem to be the next most popular development project of brave entrepreneurs.

This one could be different.

For one, it's from a leading provider of e-mail marketing services on the enterprise level, Dynamics Direct.

It's integrated in an existing enterprise-grade e-mail marketing solution and seems to promise RSS personalization.

"Dynamics Direct has introduced the first and only integrated Email and RSS Marketing solution that empowers consumers, publishers, and marketers to control RSS content based on individual preferences and choose email or RSS delivery. This solution allows marketers and advertisers to deliver personalized communications to both a recipients inbox or their RSS reader if they have one. Consumers get to choose whether they would like to receive email or RSS messages from the marketer or advertiser. Most importantly, consumers can have complete control of message relevancy and frequency. Marketers and Advertisers benefit from reporting statistics that encompass email and RSS message views by individual so they are instantly aware of message success and interest levels by topic."

Sounds good, right?

Well, there's no easily accessible demo, so there's no way to tell yet. But at least this one looks promising ...

However, they are hardly the first and only integrated RSS and e-mail marketing solution. If they think they are, does that mean they haven't done their market research and thus cannnot be trusted about their service as well?

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).