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much has changed since the site was last updated in 2007 - and it's pretty fair to say that it's now completely outdated.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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Traditional Publishing, Blogs and Ad Dolars

 
 

Today at Syndicate, Tig Tillinghast of MarketingVox, noted how traditional newspaper readership is decreasing, while the ad money this channel is getting is hardly getting any smaller, even though on the other side of the river new popular content media (blogs) are attracting huge numbers of readers.

People are still subscribing to print publications, but are reading them much less.

So the challenge for marketers now is actually taking some of that money and a] investing it in blog and RSS advertising and b] investing it in blog-based PR.

The steps that Tig suggests to achieve b] are as follows:

1] Determine the type of the blog you want to be placed in, PR wise: is it a "first news breaking blog", an opinion blog or a comprehensive new source blog, that covers a specific field in details.

2] Adapt your PR message to the blog type.

3] Don't over communicate.

4] Actually read the publication, especially to capture its tone and make sure they haven't covered your topic yet.

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).