How to Monetize Your Influence Type: Platform-Specific Superstar
Image created in Canva When we think of influencers, we generally think of people with huge followings on their blog or social media platforms. There is more to influence than just audience numbers though, which is good news for the…
Best Knowledge Base Software For 2022
There has been an increasing need for knowledge base software over the last several years. Its market was valued at USD 22.45 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 58.81 Billion by 2028. Many growing businesses are looking…
Pulling Back the Curtain on Email Deliverability
You can create the best email in the world, but it won’t matter if it doesn’t make it to your subscriber. And that’s why it’s vitally important you work with an email service provider (like FeedBlitz!) who places the highest…
Applying the Pareto Principle to Increase Your Productivity
Image created in Canva From ProBlogger expert Nicole Avery of Planning With Kids. The 80/20 principle, or the Pareto principle, is widely known and accepted in business. The principle asserts that a minority of causes or effort lead to a majority…
Effective Calendar Management Strategies For Digital Marketers To Streamline Their Workflow
According to Curata research, now more than 90{1652eb1ffa4184925f6a63a9c04ea6b421acb7a78117241e7d4325cdca8339fa} of companies have marketing calendars. Why do you think marketing teams and companies are shifting towards this? It’s because organized marketers and marketing teams who actively preplan their strategies are 331{1652eb1ffa4184925f6a63a9c04ea6b421acb7a78117241e7d4325cdca8339fa} more…
Introducing FeedBlitz Accel – FeedBlitz
A new plan to help you define, refine, and maximize subscriber engagement and audience targeting for stellar results. Increase Visibility The data and capabilities to reach your subscribers when they’re most likely to open your emails. Boost Engagement Increased visibility…
The 4 Rs That Show a Brand Your Blog is Influential
Image created in Canva One way to monetise your blog is through working with brand partners. This could be anything from sponsored content and affiliate promotions through to ongoing ambassadorships or sponsorships. In any case, there are a number of…
(Pumpkin) Spice Up Your Emails with Fall and Halloween-themed Templates
Save time on design and get a jumpstart in spicing up your emails with a free Fall or Halloween-themed email template! A simple and easy way to bring the holidays into your email marketing – without having to start a design from scratch – these Quick Start templates are available in every FeedBlitz account year-round. The Fall-themed templates offer various image layouts, all using Fall-like color schemes, for seasonal promotions or to change things up…
Your Guide to the FeedBlitz Email Ad Program
Every email you send and every update that goes live is an opportunity — and that includes the opportunity to generate revenue. You’ve carved out your space on the world wide web and built a community of like-minded people interested in reading what you provide. You also created an email list from that community and started to grow your audience with a new way to receive and engage with your content. Now picture this: Sending campaigns to your…
Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan
The post Get Your First 1000 Readers: Here’s Your Step by Step Plan appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by delfi de la Rua on Unsplash By ProBlogger Writing Expert Ali Luke. Has your blog got a grand total of three subscribers? (You, your test account, and your mum?) Maybe you’ve got a little bit further than that. You’ve got 10 or 20 or 50 readers signed up to read your posts or your newsletter. But you don’t know where to go next. I’m going to assume that your blog is currently in reasonably good shape. If there are any key things that you need to do or fix, then get those sorted before proceeding. (For instance, if…
Email Marketing 101, Part 1
Why Email When you think about building your site for the first time, you’re probably also thinking about your Facebook presence. After all, that’s where the people are, right? OK, that makes sense at a superficial level. But there are two problems with emphasizing platforms like Facebook instead of your own site and your own list: Facebook owns Facebook. Building your online presence on someone else’s digital turf which they adjust to please themselves (and not you) is risky. Facebook stinks for engagement. “Stinks” – a bit strong, you say? Well, according to https://www.michaelleander.me/blog/facebook-engagement-rate-benchmark/ a very good engagement rate on …
Email Marketing 101, Part 2
When to Start Email Marketing In the previous Email Marketing 101 post, I talked about why email marketing is vital. Today I’ll talk about when – when to start your email marketing efforts. Good news! It’s a one word answer: Now. No, I’m serious. Don’t delay because “I’m not big enough” or “I don’t have enough traffic.” You simply don’t know when and which subscriber will be the one that buys from you, spreads the word about you, or invests in you. Look at it this way. As you start out, you’re building pages; thinking about SEO; …
Email Marketing 101, Part 3
How to Start with Email Marketing Honestly: Don’t over think it. Sending blog updates by email is not only great, but also very much good enough – you’re saving your blog’s subscribers the time and effort to remember to go back to your site. Your content is already great, and now people have invited you to send it to them whenever you write. That’s what they want; so go ahead. Give it to them. Here’s how you…
Email Marketing 101, Part 4
How to be Successful with Email Marketing 101 The previous three articles in the “Email Marketing 101″ series dealt with three core concepts: Why you should be email marketing; When to start email marketing; and How to start email marketing. But email marketing isn’t an end point, or a static goal. It’s an ongoing process. While automation can and does yield significant benefits, you still have to make certain commitments to be successful. If, however, you’re an avid blogger or content marketer, meeting these commitments isn’t going to be a big deal. To finish up the series then, here are some basic steps you need to keep on taking in order to be successful: Email regularly and predictably…
SmartForms: The Email Subscription Form Wises Up
Today I’m delighted to announce the introduction of FeedBlitz “SmartForms” – responsive, adaptive, flexible subscription forms available now, for free, with every active FeedBlitz publisher account. To view the video online, go to https://animoto.com/play/Pvhh0ATjCknt0EUyD700yw What’s Wrong with Email Subscription Forms Today There are several problems with almost every subscription form out there right now, no matter what product, plugin, widget or service you’re using. Very often they’re not responsive — in other words, ill suited for mobile usage. They can be hard to update and / or customize, but worst of all, they’re Just Plain Dumb. Why? Because if you have a popup, it’s…
We’ve Added @Animoto to our Video in Email Support
FeedBlitz today enabled support for @Animoto video embedding in emails we send for our publishers; an example using yesterday’s SmartForms announcement video is included here. What this means is that if you embed an Animoto video in a post, FeedBlitz will automatically convert that to a video thumbnail and mail that out instead (videos typically don’t work well in emails, here’s why). You don’t have to do anything special to include the thumbnail — it just works. Like our …
Faster Ad Revenue Reporting
Publishers making the most of their content by monetizing with FeedBlitz’s unique RSS and email ad service can find out how they’re doing more quickly. Ad earnings are now being calculated hourly, with about an hour’s delay, instead of overnight. In other words, checking your ad earnings at 2pm will give you an idea of your earnings through about 1pm today, and the numbers are updated hourly. Ad earnings are reported at My Account | Ad Revenue Share | Opt-In Ad Reports in the left sidebar navigation. If you’re not using our ads and would like to try them out, you can set up ads …
Monetize Your Mailings: Introducing the Marquee Ad Unit
FeedBlitz is enabling a new, higher earning ad-unit, called a “Marquee” for publishers opted in to our ad network. The marquee unit in testing has significantly boosted earnings, in some cases nearly doubled them. As such, we’re really excited about this new ad format, and have enabled marquees for all publishers currently earning with our email ad network. Marquees go live for everyone using our ad network tomorrow, March 31st, 2015. Marquees don’t always show, but when they do, they appear exactly once per mailing, just under your logo and above the post content. If they don’t, there’s no material effect on your mailing’s layout. If you’re reading this via email, then odds are there is a…
Turn Facebook Fans Into Email Subscribers
When Facebook rolled out their Call-to-Action button, business owners everywhere scrambled to figure out how best to to use this new marketing option. If you aren’t using Facebook’s Call-to-Action button to encourage page fans to subscribe to your site’s mailing list, you’re missing out on an opportunity to exponentially grow your list — and protect yourself in case a future Facebook algorithm or policy change reduces the visibility of your page even further. Since Facebook page fans are people who have sought you out, they are likely to be your target audience and have already expressed interest in hearing what you have to say, bringing them one step closer to subscribing. Now you can combine the powerful FeedBlitz…
How Not to Be a Dirty, Rotten Spammer
Email is an incredibly effective way to nurture prospects and leads, and pave the path for those folks to make a purchase. But so much marketing email goes horribly, horribly wrong. If there’s one thing nearly everybody hates, it’s spam. It wastes our time, it insults our intelligence, and sometimes it can even trick or scam us. But not all spam is created on purpose. Lots of well-meaning businesses are creating ugly, hated spam…
How to Avoid the ‘Idea of Entrepreneurship’
Today’s guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a freelancer turned agency owner and entrepreneur. His first introduction to working for himself was doing side-work after hours. Eventually, he was able to quit his job and freelance full-time. He expanded to a physical office and had 11 full-time, salaried employees with clients all over the world. Family and health reasons forced him to step away from his brick-and-mortar agency while moving into software and online training. Now, he makes his living by providing great software and products to freelancers and consultants from his upstairs office, with his wife…
Proof That Grit Is the Only Way to Reach Your Potential
In our culture, much is made of natural ability. But natural ability is nothing without grit. In fact, without grit, natural ability can actually be wasted. Recent science tells us that grit can accurately determine who will graduate from high school or West Point or even win a spelling bee. In other words, grit is an indicator whether or not someone will reach his or her potential. But what is grit? Where does it come from? Can you develop grit if you don’t have it? And what does this have to do with content marketing? Fortunately, these are the questions The Lede hosts Jerod Morris and Demian Farnworth tackle in…
What to Do When You Absolutely, Positively Must Know if Your Content Will Rock
Editor’s note: This post was originally published on June 29, 2011. We’re running it again today to honor DIY media and the endless possibilities for your business when you’ve built a loyal audience. Ever had a great idea, and then started to doubt yourself? Or maybe you’ve already executed on that great idea, but you’re hesitating to launch. Maybe it’s an article, or an ebook, or a new product or service. How can you be sure it will work? Should you ask for feedback? I’ll answer both of those questions in this article, but first I need to tell you a …
5 Ways to Write a Seductive Sentence
Here’s the thing: Your sentences don’t have to say much. They just have to say the right things. When you are trying to get people to respond to your articles, subscribe to your email newsletter, buy your products, or donate to your cause … you need to write seductive sentences. And you need to do it naturally. Here’s how to do that. In this episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth, you’ll …