[epub] Re: The Email to RSS Transition

[Christopher Knight <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:01 PM 12/7/2004, Loren M. Baker wrote:
> How many members have successfully trasitioned their email lists over to 
> an RSS feed based list?
> Do you see RSS as being more responsive?
> During the transition, did you choose (or customize) an aggregator to 
> suggest to your members?


I have 113 RSS feeds here:
http://www.ezinearticles.com/rss/

and it's on my "TO DO" list to make a simple tutorial for newbie RSS people 
how to use them.

What's surprising is that even without giving an RSS tutorial, the RSS 
feeds URLs are in my top 10 page views for last month.

Top of the list is Health & Fitness on weight loss:
http://ezinearticles.com/rss/Health-and-Fitness-Weight-Loss.xml
& building muscle:
http://ezinearticles.com/rss/Health-and-Fitness-Build-Muscle.xml

Of interest to your topic, here are new articles as they are submitted on 
RSS topics:
http://ezinearticles.com/rss/Internet-and-Businesses-Online-Blogging-RSS.xml

What I love about RSS is how granular I can publish without one single 
finger of additional effort on my part. This gives my audience exactly what 
they want and it drives repeat visitors just like email newsletters.


Outside of my Article Marketing interests, the Ezine-Tips RSS feed is also 
in my top list of pages viewed per month:
http://rss.emailuniverse.com/ezine-tips.xml
(with a special thank you to Mark Fletcher of Bloglines for sending so much 
traffic my way)


DISTINCTION: RSS is not a replacement for email.

22 reasons why EMAIL is not dead:
http://emailuniverse.com/ezine-tips/?id=1060&cat=strategy


Is RSS more responsive than Newsletters?

Yes, for early adopters....but it misses the mass market that is not 
interested in understanding RSS feeds yet.




To Your Email Newsletter Success!
Christopher Knight, Publisher
http://EmailUniverse.com/ezine-tips/