Comments on: Start a Mailing List or Newsletter http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/ Home business news, information, tips and tools to help direct sales consultants succeed online. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Linda Stacy http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3615 Linda Stacy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:03:35 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-3615 Caroline, I think that's one of the big advantages to using one of the "standard" blog publishing platforms like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. Everything, including RSS is pretty much push-button easy to implement. And not just for the publishers. Even for non-techie surfers, subscribing via RSS is usually just a matter of clicking the link and choosing a reader. But then..... As I was writing this, I discovered (to my surprise and dismay) that my blog's RSS feed is not push-button easy for all readers. And I'm kicking myself because I know I should be testing things in alternate browsers on a regular basis, and yet a test today shows that many non-techie readers were definitely not finding RSS easy to subscribe to. It’s fixed now, but I’d have to say it wasn’t necessarily push-button easy for publishers to set up. It required adding some code to one of my theme files. I'm using FeedBurner.com RSS service. There is some information about RSS feeds in the blogging guide I just posted this morning, but it doesn't include setting it up. I'll see if I can find some good instructions. If anyone knows of a good tutorial on setting up RSS feeds on blogs, please post a link in the comments here. Thanks! Caroline, I think that’s one of the big advantages to using one of the “standard” blog publishing platforms like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. Everything, including RSS is pretty much push-button easy to implement. And not just for the publishers. Even for non-techie surfers, subscribing via RSS is usually just a matter of clicking the link and choosing a reader.

But then…..

As I was writing this, I discovered (to my surprise and dismay) that my blog’s RSS feed is not push-button easy for all readers. And I’m kicking myself because I know I should be testing things in alternate browsers on a regular basis, and yet a test today shows that many non-techie readers were definitely not finding RSS easy to subscribe to.

It’s fixed now, but I’d have to say it wasn’t necessarily push-button easy for publishers to set up. It required adding some code to one of my theme files. I’m using FeedBurner.com RSS service.

There is some information about RSS feeds in the blogging guide I just posted this morning, but it doesn’t include setting it up. I’ll see if I can find some good instructions.

If anyone knows of a good tutorial on setting up RSS feeds on blogs, please post a link in the comments here.

Thanks!

]]> By: Linda Stacy http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3614 Linda Stacy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:03:19 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-3614 Sorry SL, I don't currently offer an affiliate program. Sorry SL, I don’t currently offer an affiliate program.

]]> By: Linda Stacy http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4774 Linda Stacy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-4774 Sorry SL, I don't currently offer an affiliate program. Sorry SL, I don’t currently offer an affiliate program.

]]> By: Linda Stacy http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4775 Linda Stacy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-4775 Caroline, I think that's one of the big advantages to using one of the "standard" blog publishing platforms like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. Everything, including RSS is pretty much push-button easy to implement. And not just for the publishers. Even for non-techie surfers, subscribing via RSS is usually just a matter of clicking the link and choosing a reader. But then..... As I was writing this, I discovered (to my surprise and dismay) that my blog's RSS feed is not push-button easy for all readers. And I'm kicking myself because I know I should be testing things in alternate browsers on a regular basis, and yet a test today shows that many non-techie readers were definitely not finding RSS easy to subscribe to. It’s fixed now, but I’d have to say it wasn’t necessarily push-button easy for publishers to set up. It required adding some code to one of my theme files. I'm using FeedBurner.com RSS service. There is some information about RSS feeds in the blogging guide I just posted this morning, but it doesn't include setting it up. I'll see if I can find some good instructions. If anyone knows of a good tutorial on setting up RSS feeds on blogs, please post a link in the comments here. Thanks! Caroline, I think that’s one of the big advantages to using one of the “standard” blog publishing platforms like WordPress.org or Blogger.com. Everything, including RSS is pretty much push-button easy to implement. And not just for the publishers. Even for non-techie surfers, subscribing via RSS is usually just a matter of clicking the link and choosing a reader.

But then…..

As I was writing this, I discovered (to my surprise and dismay) that my blog’s RSS feed is not push-button easy for all readers. And I’m kicking myself because I know I should be testing things in alternate browsers on a regular basis, and yet a test today shows that many non-techie readers were definitely not finding RSS easy to subscribe to.

It’s fixed now, but I’d have to say it wasn’t necessarily push-button easy for publishers to set up. It required adding some code to one of my theme files. I’m using FeedBurner.com RSS service.

There is some information about RSS feeds in the blogging guide I just posted this morning, but it doesn’t include setting it up. I’ll see if I can find some good instructions.

If anyone knows of a good tutorial on setting up RSS feeds on blogs, please post a link in the comments here.

Thanks!

]]> By: Sell Leads http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3613 Sell Leads Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:02:55 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-3613 Thanks for sharing, tell me do you have some form of affiliate program i can join? Thanks for sharing, tell me do you have some form of affiliate program i can join?

]]> By: Sell Leads http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4773 Sell Leads Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:02:00 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-4773 Thanks for sharing, tell me do you have some form of affiliate program i can join? Thanks for sharing, tell me do you have some form of affiliate program i can join?

]]> By: Caroline http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-3612 Caroline Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:45:48 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-3612 I think RSS is still beyond a lot of the non techie web surfers. I think RSS is still beyond a lot of the non techie web surfers.

]]> By: Caroline http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/195/start-a-mailing-list/comment-page-1/#comment-4772 Caroline Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:45:00 +0000 http://www.irepnetwork.com/blog/?p=195#comment-4772 I think RSS is still beyond a lot of the non techie web surfers. I think RSS is still beyond a lot of the non techie web surfers.

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