SUBSCRIPTIONS, ANOTHER RSS ALTERNATIVE

Most people do not know that if you want to know about what the market is doing, they need not go about browsing for hours to get breaking news.

I discovered another way to get current information. Through subscriptions. It is a bit like window shopping. Many men don’t like doing it, but I am a woman, so I can spend lots of time browsing, reading and learning. What I have learnt has helped me to come up with reasons why you need to subscribe if you are an avid blogger and want to keep improving.

1. Subscription is about making you a reader, perhaps a potential customer but not a ready buyer. So it is free. You need to decide whether to give away your primary or secondary email.

2. Many aggressive and well known internet marketeers who are very knowledgeable about selling and marketing want subscribers for various reasons: one is to give away free current information. The need to remain current will drive them to deliver only the best information to you so you stay loyal to their site.

3. You can always unsubscribe which means you stay as a passive reader.

4. You should always try to read everything they write about in order to see a pattern in their delivery and presentation.

5. Good marketeers give you up to date information, and is always, always, obliging to their subscribers. I just sent a letter to marketeer, asking him to view my website and comment, and he did.

6. Experienced bloggers or writers know exactly how to get information from their archived files. You will be surprised to learn I just dug out an archive file dated year 2006 in Ezine which has not been revised. This is year 2008 and in the internet world, that is a long time.

7. Subscription means you do not have to visit their sites anymore, unless you decide to do so.

8. Subscribe to your favourite topics for your reading pleasure to make your blogging hours more meaningful.

With subscription, the newspaper boy always deliver.

The logic goes like this:

If you want to blog, you have to write

If you wish to write, you have to read

If you have to read, you need to browse

If you do not the time to browse (window shop), you subscribe.

You know you are better when you have your first subscriber, not just readers. That in my opinion, a milestone in blogging.