When RSS hit the Internet, it was claimed that it would kill off email lists because people would switch to their RSS aggregators instead.
It never happened.
RSS, or Realy Simple Syndication, keeps track of websites without visiting them daily.
Your reader gets the latest content from the website and shows you the headline and a summary.
If you want, you can click the headline and read the post.
Once you’ve read a post, it’s removed from the list.
That last bit is why I think it never realised its potential.
People don’t want to keep all their emails, but they don’t want to delete them all either.
If there had been an RSS reader that behaved more like an email client, it might have done better. Who knows.
The other thing that might have contributed to its demise is that some marketers realised that having lots of RSS links on platforms gave them an ever-increasing number of backlinks for every site they set up.
That doesn’t work anymore because most public RSS aggregators have closed down.
That doesn’t mean that RSS is not helpful.
Most websites have an RSS feed link you can exploit.
You can use several tools to gather content from websites in your niche to help you create content for your site.
You can write content based on the central idea in the post, or you can curate that content for your site.
There are plugins for WordPress that will take an RSS feed, create a post for you, and publish it.
That’s not the best way to use them, though.
The best way is to have them create the post as a draft for you to edit.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I had a training module on using RSS feeds with a list of 30 or so sites you could submit your feed links.
Before releasing my latest product, I tested the links, and most of them have gone.
The remainder wants a fee for every link you submit.
That module is no longer relevant, so it’s gone.
There are probably other things in the modules that I need to change that I haven’t found yet, but that’s the nature of the Internet, it’s a dynamic medium, and we all have to remain agile to profit from it.
This tool, https://go.wm-tips.com/riffer, helps you gather relevant RSS feeds and either riff on the blog or curate it.
Blog riffing is copying a quote from another blog and writing a blog post based on or inspired by it, usually with a link to the original post.
From that, I’ve put together an extensive training on four different ways to make money online plus one on generating free traffic and one on list building because without traffic, you’ll get no sales, and without a list, you’ll have to work harder every day to make sales.
Each model has full instructions for those who haven’t done this before and tips for the more experienced folk covering the parts they may not have thought of.
There are 80 videos with transcripts, but you don’t need to watch them all to gain massive benefit from this.
You can choose one model and work on that one until you have reached the level of success you want.
You’ll get massive benefits from choosing one model and working through the list building and free traffic models.
It’s not entirely completed but will be in a day or so.
Proofreading, watching videos (hopefully not having to remake any), and other tasks still need completing.
Pricing?
It will be very inexpensive for you and free for those in the Substack paid members group.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. I’ve got nothing more to add here.
Just be on the lookout for the email with the launch details in a day or so.
You have seen the interviews, read the stories, and watched the videos, so you know it’s real.
For many successful people, it wasn’t until they hit rock bottom that they started on their road to success.
The question I always ask when I hear these stories is, why did it take hitting rock bottom to spur them onto success?
If the tough got going earlier, would the going have got tough?
What I think happens is that those people, like so many of us, drift along in our lives wishing things were different but not making a firm decision to make it different.
When your life is semi-comfortable or even uncomfortable but known, there is little incentive to change.
We tend to hang onto the familiar because change can be challenging.
Change is uncertain, and we crave certainty.
Most of us don’t realise that if we don’t make the change to something we want, someone else will make the change for us, and it probably won’t be for our benefit.
If change is inevitable, it makes sense that it’s to your benefit to make the changes you want.
They don’t have to be big changes.
No one is suggesting that you quit your job, move to a remote island, and become an Internet Marketer.
Make minor adjustments to your daily routine to incorporate online activities other than reading emails, catching up on Facebook and watching videos.
Consistent, focused actions result in the changes you want.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. If you are looking for solid guidance towards eliminating the reliance on your job, then this short PDF might be what you seek.
We all know the fable of the tortoise and the hare from Aesop’s Fables stories.
And we all think we know the moral of the story.
But, when it comes to how we run our lives and businesses, we all act like the hare.
Why is that?
Why are we all so damned impatient to get results?
Would all those fast food places be doing such great business if we weren’t?
Would there be a market for lottery tickets?
Would gambling of any sort cease to exist?
Do you think anyone would ever get a speeding ticket?
Would road rage cease to be a thing?
I’m sure that you can think of many more examples of people living like the hare and not the tortoise.
And yet we see examples of people who do run their businesses like the tortoise, and they are rare enough that others think they must have had a lucky break.
Perhaps they had some special insider knowledge.
I can tell you that, in fact, they did have special insider knowledge.
It’s the same insider knowledge that I see every time I do a deep dive into any successful person or company.
They leveraged time.
Growing a business as an individual or a group of people takes time, effort and money.
The less money you have, the more effort is required.
It’s often called sweat equity and denotes the simple fact that you have to put in to take out.
Ignore those hares running around changing direction, leaping over small mounds, chasing rainbows.
They’ll all be left far behind you as you keep plodding along in the direction you want to go.
You’ll get there so far ahead of them that you’ll think they must have been having a little nap.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. An online friend, Steve Mellor, has released his Podcast Advantage course.
Podcasting has become the hottest way to generate an audience because people follow the hare’s example and don’t have the time to read a book or watch a video because they are so busy being busy.
This means that they resort to podcasts because they can listen to a podcast while driving to work, exercising in the gym, or any other activity where they don’t have to think too hard about what they are doing.
We listen to them sometimes while travelling because driving for hours can get boring.
The market is growing, and if this is something you’d like to explore, this training by Steve is the best available.
Even if you stayed home under a blanket, you probably still managed to piss someone off.
It’s not something you can avoid.
Some people even spend their entire day looking for something to get pissed off about, and they will always find something.
What a crappy way to live.
We all get pissed off about things, usually outside our control which makes little sense.
And we all piss off someone else at some stage throughout the day.
This email will piss off some of you.
Some, because of the language, others will think it’s a waste of their time to read it.
I’m now old enough that I don’t care too much about what other people think about what I say or do.
I know that I will offend some people because they want to be offended.
Some get offended on behalf of other people.
What sort of insanity is that?
I care not. I live in a democratic country with the right to free speech.
People around me have the same right and the right to be offended by what I say.
What they don’t have the right to do is mould my right to free speech to fit their agenda.
Their insistence on woke speech patterns and left-wing beliefs is offensive to me.
Will they change to stop being offensive to me?
Not bloody likely.
They think they are the only ones who know the truth, but it’s only their version of the truth, not mine.
If you don’t like my attitude, the unsubscribe link is below.
Regards, Brent.
P.S. Are you still reading, or did you scroll directly to the unsubscribe link?
For those who didn’t get offended, I have another freebie for you.
One thing you probably need to get your main website ranking and generating income is more targeted traffic.
There are many ways to do this, but one of the time tested ways is to get more links from relevant sites.
It’s not always easy to get these, as many sites won’t just link out to you for fear of getting downgraded by the almighty Google.
To get around this problem, smart marketers built their own websites, filled them with relevant content targeting a wide range of long-tail keywords and used them to link to their money sites and pages.
This takes time and money but pays off handsomely.
Google got pissed off with this because many of those marketers got lazy and posted the same content on hundreds of sites to the detriment of Google’s search results.
Those marketers who weren’t lazy found that their rankings improved and stuck.
You can do the same with free websites.
You can use web 2.0 sites to host your content, articles from web directories to generate that content, and free web hosting for the main site or for more backlinks.
This free host allows you to have multiple domains per account to help remove the footprints that identify your sites as all under one umbrella.
