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Will You Add? - RSS Feeds 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Distributing and Promoting Your Site's XML Feed
There’s an old curse “may you have many employees.” For many business owners, handling employee matters is the top of their list for problems. So, what’s a small business owner, who is already wearing too many hats, supposed to do to avoid employee problems?Employees are supposed to help you get more accomplished, not drain your energy. In fact, employee innovations (inventions and process improvements) are the source of competitive advantage and profitability – your success depends on leveraging them.How you han
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh a
The Dance-a-Thon is not an original idea, but using a dance fundraiser as one of your primary fundraisers might be. Kids love it, especially at the middle school and high school level. Whether your group holds many fundraisers throughout the year, or relies on one large fundraiser, this might be a good solution.A Dance-a-Thon is probably most suited to school fundraising, but it could also be adapted to other groups as well. If you are investigating a Dance-a-Thon for a school fundraiser, a word to the wise, do it early in t
But how, exactly, do you find (and eventually keep) those readers?
1. Use the Community. No matter the subject area of your website, the vastness of the Internet is bound to have some sort of burgeoning community for it. Readers and writers of RSS feeds love to communicate, so get in there and communicate with them! Find like-minded sites featuring like-minded feeds and trade links; if the site-owners appreciate your content, they'll almost always share the information with others. These virtual hubs of knowledge are well worth getting to know -- word of mouth, after all, is a powerful thing.
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh an
Very small businesses, those with less than a handful of PCs, often use informal peer-to-peer networks to share files and printers. This is in sharp contrast to a more robust client/server network with a dedicated server computer, and often selected to keep costs to a minimum.They are generally built around a consumer-oriented operating system, such as Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows ME.Small Business Consultants and Peer-to-Peer Networks Don’t MixAlthough rarely utilized in the field, a business-gra
But how, exactly, do you find (and eventually keep) those readers?
1. Use the Community. No matter the subject area of your website, the vastness of the Internet is bound to have some sort of burgeoning community for it. Readers and writers of RSS feeds love to communicate, so get in there and communicate with them! Find like-minded sites featuring like-minded feeds and trade links; if the site-owners appreciate your content, they'll almost always share the information with others. These virtual hubs of knowledge are well worth getting to know -- word of mouth, after all, is a powerful thing.
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh a
All business starts with a sales lead. There are no appointments set, no presentations, no sales closings, no completed sales, and no commissions without getting that first sales lead. So, to get paid you gotta start with a lead!I vaguely remember watching the movie Glengarry Glen Ross just before I started my sales career. In that movie there is a salesman that is not selling very well. He’s on the brink of being fired. It’s Christmas time and he needs to pay a visit to a family to sell them time shares. He was nervous and
But how, exactly, do you find (and eventually keep) those readers?
1. Use the Community. No matter the subject area of your website, the vastness of the Internet is bound to have some sort of burgeoning community for it. Readers and writers of RSS feeds love to communicate, so get in there and communicate with them! Find like-minded sites featuring like-minded feeds and trade links; if the site-owners appreciate your content, they'll almost always share the information with others. These virtual hubs of knowledge are well worth getting to know -- word of mouth, after all, is a powerful thing.
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh a
Has this ever happened to you: You have been working at a particular job for a few years. It’s not the greatest job and it hasn’t always allowed you to capitalize on your unique gifts or talents. But it’s ok, and it pays the bills. The job has become a part of your life’s routine.Then one day, without any forewarning, you’re let go. In what seems like a split second, you go from being gainfully employed to joining the ranks of the unemployed. It’s a shock to the system.A tremendous level of stress can accompany b
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh a
We are all aware that competition in the market is really stiff. Businesses are creating strategic schemes on how to attract and gain trust from their target prospects. They make use of different materials that will stand for them. In this manner advertising and printed materials are highly demanded to printing companies.However, advertising materials may not be enough in gaining clients attention. Indeed there is a need for follow ups and sending greeting cards for special occasions in order to keep your clients reminded of
2. Keep Up the Updates. Though this seems to go without saying, frequently updating the content of your site is vital to the life of your XML feed. The purpose here is two-fold. First of all, fresh and well-written content is the best way to keep readers coming back for more; after all, an XML feed thrives on constant updates and readers expect that sort of timeliness. But secondly, and perhaps most importantly, frequently updating your content keeps your site's name near the top of the directories' list of newly updated feeds. By attempting to stay near the front page, readers will come to know you as a common player, thus increasing their interest in what you have to say. Just make sure you aren't updating simply for the sake of updating; RSS-users are capable of seeing right through that tactic and will sometimes abandon a feed for being too obnoxious in its promotional efforts.
3. Remember the Reader. It's important to make your XML feed as accessible and user-friendly as possible. Say, for instance, that a reader stumbles onto your site and enjoys the content but knows nothing about RSS, how it works and how they can use it. Well, why not help them out? Create a separate page on your site that explains the function and purpose of RSS and clues readers in to some of the best aggregators; o
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