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Pinterest: The Little Platform that Could

Pinterest launched in March 2010, and many people scoffed at the little pinboard. Calling it ‘a place for crafty moms’, and ‘glorified scrapbooking’, no one could have dreamed how successful it would become. Consider these statistics: In just under three years, there are already 70 million plus avid pinners, generating 2.5 *billion* monthly pageviews. Sixty…

Content: Feed Your Blog First

Are you spending time week after week researching and compiling valuable content, then only using it for your newsletters? Stop doing that, and consider doing this. Publish that content in the form of a blog post. It will then be archived on your blog, the keywords used would help you to rise in Google rankings…

Making the Most of FeedBlitz: Customizing Your Email Templates

These last few Thursdays we’ve been exploring how to customize your email templates, starting off with the “easy” template editor, and then, if you’re brave, moving up to the ATE “ the Advanced Template Editor. Today we’re wrapping things up with a few odds and ends, some FYIs so to speak, when it comes to…

Trouble with Content Creation? Get Out of Your Own Way

Content creation for your blog can be challenging. Sometimes, the creative juices just don’t flow, and you’re left staring at a blank page. As bloggers, we’re all faced with the challenge of creating consistent, engaging content, and sometimes it can feel like an impossible task. But why is creating content so difficult at times? In…

Making the Most of FeedBlitz: Customizing Your Email Templates

A “template” is what controls the layout of your blog’s content when it is turned into a mailing or subscriber landing page. The template is where the graphic design elements of the mailings are determined, beyond what is in an individual post. Branding, layout, fonts, colors “ all are determined by the template. FeedBlitz has…

Making the Most of FeedBlitz: Simplifying the Subscription Form

This week, we continue our look at the FeedBlitz philosophy behind subscription forms. As mentioned last week, our approach is to keep the subscription form on your site as simple as possible. Any extra data collection or work (such as CAPTCHAs for anti-spam, custom fields or social media authentication dialogs) will take place on a…

Making the Most of FeedBlitz: The FeedBlitz Subscription Form Philosophy

The approach we have historically adopted at FeedBlitz is to keep the subscription form on your site as simple as possible, and for any extra data collection or work (such as CAPTCHAs for anti-spam, custom fields or social media authentication dialogs) to take place on a separate page. This approach as a couple of benefits.…

The Five Cs of a Successful Blog

Blogging is fun and rewarding. It’s also a lot of work. Whether blogging for business, or just for fun; starting a blog for the first time, or you’re a veteran star of the blogosphere, it’s important to have a strategy in place with an end goal, and tactics to help you get to that goal.…

Help! My FeedBurner Migration Message Isn’t Appearing or Updating

One of the most common support questions I run across is a variation of: “Help my FeedBurner feed hasn’t updated since [insert number of hours or days] and my readers aren’t seeing the migration message? Why are things broken?” There are a few potential causes for the FeedBurner feed to not update or for the…