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#1 Mistake Most Blogs Do
As much as this might surprise most bloggers, the #1 mistake
most blogs are doing is not publishing their content via e-mail,
as a supplement to their RSS feeds.
Just think about it: while RSS is growing strong, it still
only penetrates about 5-6% of the American online population.
Furthermore, according to a recent BlogAds survey, "only 12
percent of the blog reading audience said it used RSS always or
often".
If you're delivering your blog content only via RSS, you're
missing out on about 80% or more of potential regular
readership/followship.
THE KEY BLOG PROBLEM
There are millions of blogs already, but really few people
have the time to watch more than a few daily. But if they come
back just once a week, they can be quickly overwhelmed with the
amount of new content.
That's why it's crucial to provide a "best of", a helping hand
to guide your readers to the "must-read" content you publish ?
and delivering this content either as a standalone "blog-zine" or
as part of your regular e-mail newsletter.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
Deliver your blog posts as they are written via RSS, but then
also publish a regular (weekly or monthly) e-mail e-zine with
your "top blog posts" for those that are still not in to RSS.
Don't do just one channel, do both.
E-mail is still the #1 end-user content delivery channel ...
whether we like it or not. Using e-mail (as a supplement to RSS)
to deliver our content is just good business practice, at least
for now.
THE CHRIS PIRILLO EXAMPLE
Chris Pirillo is the publisher of one of the most popular
sites on the net, Lockergnome.com. He was actually the first to
proclaim e-mail as being dead.
But still, while he preferrs for his subscribers to use RSS
instead of e-mail, that isn't stopping him from using or
promoting either RSS or e-mail.
COMPARING BLOGS, E-ZINES, E-MAIL AND RSS
If you're reading this article and thinking that blogs are
actually "beyond e-mail", just consider the following
reality.
RSS and e-mail are content delivery channels; the tools that
enable us to deliver our content to end-users. Blogs and e-zines
on the other hand are two different internet media content
formats, differing in how/what content is provided and presented
through them.
RSS/e-mail and blogs/e-zines cannot be directly compared. Blog
content and e-zine content can both be delivered via RSS and
e-mail, and there is no direct business/logical relation between,
for example, blogs and RSS.
Blogs are "personal" conversations, opinions and news,
delivered in a linear structure, usually written in a more
personal style, and confined to a limited number of content
types.
E-zines on the other hand are more similar to magazines or
newspapers, carrying content presented in a complex non-linear
content structure, and having the ability to carry many different
content types that do not mix well together if provided through a
linear content structure.
A typical e-zine might include:
- an editorial;
- a leading article, representing the prevailing topic of a
specific e-zine issue;
- supporting articles, clearly structured to show they are
secondary to the leading article;
- links to "best of" blog posts in the given timeframe;
- links to the most relevant forum topics and posts;
- a news section;
- a featured client case study;
- different advertisements (banner ads, textual ads,
advertorials etc.);
- a featured consultant;
- a Q&A section;
- a featured whitepaper;
- etc.
Providing all of this content demands a complex content
structure and a strong and experienced editor. The blog format
simply does not provide the level of structure needed to
effectively present such a complex content mix.
But that's not to say that blogs are in any way inferior to
e-zines, they're just different. And businesses need both, and
they need to deliver both via RSS and e-mail.
Personal preferences towards content delivery channels and
internet content media formats have no place in business. What
matters is what our audiences want and how they want it.
Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik
Rok Hrastnik is the author of »Unleash the Marketing
& Publishing Power of RSS«, acclaimed as the best and
most comprehensive guide to RSS for marketers by leading RSS
experts. The complete guide on RSS for marketers: http://rss.marketingstudies.net/index.html?src=sa2
MORE RESOURCES updated Wed. February / 05 / 2025
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