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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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Revisiting Branded RSS Readers: RSSlvp

 
 

It's been quite some time since we last discussed branded RSS Readers.

Surprisingly, there wasn't much activity in this area for the past few months, as the idea doesn't seem to be catching on quickly among publishers and marketers. Personally, I cannot imagine why, as branded RSS Readers are one of the best opportunities for marketers to establish a stronger relationship with their prospects and get them started with real brand interaction.

Anyway, the RSS marketing vendor RSSlvp just surprised me with their own branded RSS Reader, which they also prepared a branded copy of for MarketingStudies.net.

As an RSS Reader their tool offers standard functionality that will satisfy most RSS users with intermedia RSS usage needs. While the Reader does not stand out with anything in particular, it's excellent at achieving the end-goal of the companies that want to distribute it to their audiences --- great ease and simplicity of use.

From the marketer point of view, the branded Reader offers four distinct features:

a) Each facet of the Reader is branded with your logo, even the "new content" notification window.

b) Your banner is placed directly below the Toolbar of the Reader.

c) On launching the Reader, the user will be exposed to an introduction by your company, which can also include links to your products and similar.

d) The Reader can be pre-loaded with your feeds, which you can then also dynamically update for all of your users.

Here's a quick screenshot ...

More info and a download after I've had a chance to play with the Reader somewhat more ...

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).