How to Capture Blog Visitor Info
Today I was talking to Virtual Assisting expert Stacy Brice who's way into blogs ... and I learned something cool. Stacy captures the names of those who come to her blog and want to be informed when she sends out posts via email. While this may fly in the face of the current RSS craze, it's an interesting 'bridge-gap' position to take for those whose readers aren't really all that keen on the RSS thing yet. It's a comforting extra which also helps the blog owner build a list. According to sources, Bloglet, software that also does this, has a glitch which renders its broadcasts useless if one of the addresses on said list doesn't work. That's baaaaadddd. Very, very bad. So Bloglet then becomes quite unreliable. Stacy likes Constant Contact for form creation and list management on her blog. I'm inclined to the the same with my own system, 1shoppingcart.com. I'll be looking into that next week.
For now, I'm off to speak to the Publisher's Marketing Association tomorrow in NYC about building platform. That's going to be inspiring - and a chance for me to learn even more about what kind of platform publishers are looking for when they evaluate new authors. I'll come back armed with more info, and may even post from the road!
BTW, I also made a momentous decision last week: I'm going to start coaching 1-on-1 with this platform work. I really feel guided to do this, and have been having some very powerful sessions with my Platform Push Coaching group clients. Yay team! More to come on that....
Have a glorious week, Suzanne
Today I was talking to Virtual Assisting expert Stacy Brice who's way into blogs ... and I learned something cool. Stacy captures the names of those who come to her blog and want to be informed when she sends out posts via email. While this may fly in the face of the current RSS craze, it's an interesting 'bridge-gap' position to take for those whose readers aren't really all that keen on the RSS thing yet. It's a comforting extra which also helps the blog owner build a list. According to sources, Bloglet, software that also does this, has a glitch which renders its broadcasts useless if one of the addresses on said list doesn't work. That's baaaaadddd. Very, very bad. So Bloglet then becomes quite unreliable. Stacy likes Constant Contact for form creation and list management on her blog. I'm inclined to the the same with my own system, 1shoppingcart.com. I'll be looking into that next week.
For now, I'm off to speak to the Publisher's Marketing Association tomorrow in NYC about building platform. That's going to be inspiring - and a chance for me to learn even more about what kind of platform publishers are looking for when they evaluate new authors. I'll come back armed with more info, and may even post from the road!
BTW, I also made a momentous decision last week: I'm going to start coaching 1-on-1 with this platform work. I really feel guided to do this, and have been having some very powerful sessions with my Platform Push Coaching group clients. Yay team! More to come on that....
Have a glorious week, Suzanne
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