DISQUS

Stephanie · 1 year ago

"I don’t think small business folks can here this enough - don’t get too concerned about what it is or how it works - it’s just plumbing - get excited about what you can do with it."

This is music to my ears! I have a tendancy to get too caught up in details. Afterall, I don't want to learn how to build a watch, I just want to know the time! Thanks for the reiteration! Great article.

MarketingTwins-Randy · 1 year ago

RSS is great - and I'm still trying to learn what it can do. I use RSS to feed into Bloglines and now I have more content to read than I have time for . . . but when I do find the time, I have a wealth of information in front of me. I use it to read other marketing blogs, to see what my favorite marketing guru is talking about (you're my favorite of course, but there's a few others in second place). I also use RSS to have information fed to me that would be of interest to certain clients - information I know little about and wouldn't know where to look. But now that info comes to me and I can then pass on sites or blogs to my clients for their reading pleasure . . . they are always thrilled to get the info and for the most part they ask "how'd do find this article?" Since I once lived in Africa, I like to read stories about Benin and West Africa, so I have those articles fed to me as well. I love the personalization of RSS. I get what I want to read.

The Eliminator · 1 year ago

We participated in John's seminar today. We learned a lot. Thanks for your thoughts on the 4 C's: Content, Context, Connect, Community. We never understood how important blogging is to increasing the exposure of our website. We really liked your definition of marketing. Go Green!

Sgt. Pepper ProFumigator · 1 year ago

We're working on exploring RSS feeds for our site. The technology seems like it could really lend itself to what we're trying to do. Do you have any other resources for a small business trying to expand its RSS capabilities?

Paul Simister · 1 year ago

I agree. I am a fan of RSS feeds because it does make it much easier to keep track of what is happening.

As usual there is still a massive education issue because I still believe RSS has not moved into the mainstream.

cipals15 · 1 year ago

hi!

I am not that fun on RSS but thanks for the info. I usually do it in delicious. I dont know what is better. Bookmarking or Feeds. But i will try more things for my blog and this blog had offered may new ideas.

Thanks for posting this one.

Charles
Money Making and Blogging Tips

Martyn · 1 year ago

I have to agree that RSS Feeds are a great time saver - they can be used for so many things. I use them for research, sports scores, following friends activities and too many other things to list them all here!

James Helms · 1 year ago

Great advice to the small business owner. There are only 24 hours in a day and you can get 10 time more done using RSS (or more).
Like you say, once things are set up RSS is automated.

Greenville SEO · 1 year ago

Thank you for sharing that "100 cool things... RSS" link.

WOW, you use RSS in a lot of ways I never thought of.

Angie A. Swartz, Six Figure Mo · 1 year ago

Hey John, Thanks for these great tips about using RSS feeds to increase the efficiency of your day. My network of Six Figure Moms have insane schedules and they need to adopt and take advantage of all the Web 2.0 opportunities. I wrote a blog post, "Do Working Mothers Read Blogs? They Should" last month but will repost with a reference to your tips this week. You provide a comprehensive post that just might convince those who say they don't have time to learn about RSS to jump over the naysayer fence =-) On a personal note, you and I met in San Diego at the Vision to Venture Conference and I've been following your stuff ever since. Thanks for the inspiration!