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FeedBlitz v4 Going Live for Everyone

Published on 2012-01-15 08:04:00

All things being equal, the new FeedBlitz v4 user interface will be on by default for all users starting Monday, January 16th, 9:00am eastern. You can get a jump start on it by visiting www.feedblitz.com/f?v4 if you haven't already done so.© FeedBlitz, LLC. Originally published at FeedBlitz News   Join the Conversation!Join the Conversation!Related StoriesShipping FeedBlitz v4Try FeedBlitz v4 for yourself!Watch the FeedBlitz v4 intro video now

Shopping Cart Integration / Email Parser Policy Change

Published on 2012-01-13 14:24:00

The FeedBlitz email parser integration that enables subscribers to be automatically added to one of your lists has been modified since we launched it. If the list you are adding to is an autoresponder, FeedBlitz will add the subscriber and activate the autoresponder automatically. It doesn't feel right to make them go through dual opt in in this case just so you can say "thank you."  If the list the parser is attached to is a standard mailing list (newsletter, blog powered or otherwise), du

Join me for Adventures in Listbuilding: An Evolution of List Automation and Segmentation

Published on 2012-01-03 09:03:00

I will be the guest on the NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing System) weekly training call tomorrow evening, Wednesday, January 4th at 8pm eastern. Join me and David Perdew for an hour of education and chat on using email marketing profitably for digital products and your site. Hope you can join me - use the guest registration process if you're not a NAMS member.I'm also going to be running some training at the NAMS7 conference in Atlanta in early February. You can find out more about that here&nbs

Adding Google+ to FeedBlitz Feeds and Emails

Published on 2011-12-30 06:43:00

Following yesterday's announcement of our Pinterest integrations, today it is Google+'s turn.  Google+ has been added to FeedBlitz in two key areas to enable end-user sharing of your posts and links to their G+ circles: As a new social media feed "flare" added to FeedBlitz RSS feeds (enabled at RSS - Social Media), enabling RSS and email subscribers to share the post with their circles on Google+  As an additional sharing option when an email subscription is activated, added to the scr

Pinterest for Feeds and Emails

Published on 2011-12-29 13:41:00

I'm happy to announce that FeedBlitz has added comprehensive support for Pinterest - the increasingly popular social pinboard service - to FeedBlitz's RSS (and by extension, blog to email) subscription services. What we've enabled is: The ability to splice your pins into your FeedBlitz version of your blog's RSS feed (via RSS - Splices), which will include your pins into that feed, and by extension into any emails and updates sent from that feed. The default is to add a daily sum

How I Quadrupled My Subscriber List, by Katey Schultz

Published on 2011-12-23 07:34:00

I'll admit it. I'm one of those writers that used to blush when being called a blogger. My embarrassment was based on stereotypes, of course, and I'll confess them here only to prove a point. I didn't like being called a blogger because bloggers weren't artists. Bloggers were in it for the money and would do anything to make a sale. And if they weren't that, bloggers were publishing drip about their personal lives, which I didn't care for. I started blogging in 2005, when perhaps those stereoty

Shipping FeedBlitz v4

Published on 2011-12-20 12:41:00

It's time. Starting this afternoon, active FeedBlitz publishers (well over 72,000 of you!) will be getting an email, letting you know that your account has been readied for the new capabilities of FeedBlitz v4. FeedBlitz v4 is significantly easier to use than the current version, enabling you to work faster. If you've found the current FeedBlitz web site a challenge at times, then you'll find FeedBlitz v4 delivers a significant leap forward. Beyond better usability, though, FeedBlitz v4 also

Advanced Email Marketing: Landing Page Monetization, Part 3

Published on 2011-12-02 11:50:00

In the previous two posts, I've discussed three of the most engaging landing pages you have (and that you're almost certainly not monetizing properly), and gave some suggestions for what you could do to change that. Before I wrap up with the FeedBlitz "how-to" however, one point I didn't emphasize earlier but should is this: You should monetize the landing pages, true, but not the interactions that lead up to them. By which I mean, don't bling up the subscription form with lots of offers and c

Advanced Email Marketing: Landing Page Monetization, Part 2

Published on 2011-11-30 09:52:00

In the previous post I pointed out that there were three landing pages on everyone's web site that are typically ignored or forgotten about from a monetization perspective. They are the landing pages that appear in an email list's dual opt-in transaction cycle: The "Check your inbox now" landing page;The "Thank you for joining the list" landing page; andThe "You have been unsubscribed" landing page.What, then, can you do with these pages to help boost earnings without messing up each page's

Advanced Email Marketing: Landing Page Monetization

Published on 2011-11-29 06:38:00

Landing pages. Generically, landing pages are the pages where a user starts to interact with your site in some way, usually after an search, or possibly clicking on an ad. One of the things that Internet Marketers (and any business online) spend a lot of time optimizing are their landing pages. The landing page is your last best shot at converting the new visitor into something else: A buyer, perhaps. A lead. A subscriber. A donor. A voter. The point being that you want that new visitor to do