I’ve written about the importance of comments when it comes to blogging. As a blogger, you’ll be known by the comments you leave and receive. Comments, after all, are a great way to get important user feedback from your readership. Unfortunately, rogue blog comments on a blog can also be a source of frustration for [...]

Blogging has been around for a decade or more and businesses are beginning to see the value of blogging as a marketing technique. In the Internet age, businesses are now beginning to see the value in blogging and working with bloggers to promote products. Many consumers turn to blogs when seeking out information and product [...]

So. What do you say when you have been away from blogging for awhile? How does one conduct a smooth re-entry? That is what I’m pondering as we resume posting here at RSS Applied. Well, we’ll learn that together, since I’ve found some good suggestions in my search for that very answer.

But first, [...]

I’ve started my Christmas shopping online and it is my goal not to step inside a single brick and mortar store this holiday season. I imagine that there are millions of consumers who are going to go the same route. Are we going to find your e-commerce site or are we going to find your [...]

How often has a customer walked into your office, shook your hand and told you how much he has enjoyed reading your print ads? Or that he makes a point of driving by your billboard everyday? Yes, rhetorical questions, but you get the point. There is absolutely no way you can engage your customers, [...]

A lot of businesses wonder why they should even get involved in business blogging in the first place. Whenever I talk to people about this concept I get a question like this, “Aren’t blogs just written by people that have nothing better to do?” As you can see, blogs and blogging in general [...]

RSS Marketing Strategies point to RSS as a superior way of getting your “transactional” (i.e. “buy this”) messages out than e-mail does.
That wise perspective is offered by Rok Hrastnik, author of the new e-book entitled Unleash The Marketing and Publishing Power of RSS.
Rob writes that, “it’s time to take on e-retailers, online service providers and [...]

A BBC story offers some surprising statistics.  According to their article, 3/4 of survey respondants claimed to have checked a blog for information before shopping. 
"Consumers are tired of marketing gloss and so the interest in blogs is not surprising," said Paul Halfpenny, product manager at survey sponsor Hostway.
"We all want impartial advice and information, [...]

A press release announcing the world’s first pharmaceutical podcast just illustrates the point that you don’t have to market to sell something.  While that seems odd, and even contradictory, consider that consumers no longer want to be talked at or sold to, rather they want to be the chooser, and if you can educate them, [...]