Today I made some small changes to how we personally do our RSS Feeds to Automatic Emails on the LearnToBeRich.com website.
In the past, if you signed up for our mailing list and selected that you were interested in, let’s say as an example, real estate investing, then you would receive an email (up to once per day) whenever we post a new blog post that actually was categorized as “Real Estate Investing” on our blog.
When we initially set this up, we thought that this would be great. We were wrong, but not too wrong.
What we discovered as we did more of the emails for new categories is that we have some overlap in what we believe people would be interested in receiving. For example, when we post topics on general marketing principles it really does apply to real estate investors, real estate agents, consultants, artists and so on… more than just real estate investors as I explained in my example.
So, I had two choices… every time I wrote an article that was about marketing I could also put it in the category that had an attached RSS feed to automatic email service attached to or I could make the automatic emails include new posts from more than one category.
It occurred to me almost immediately after I realized the choice that it is better to classify things correctly and do fewer categories and just make the RSS email feed include both the marketing category AND the specific industry that was selected.
So, how do you combine a variety of RSS feeds into a single automatic email?
Well, it is easier than you might imagine with a service like ChimpFeedr. We’ve been recommending MailChimp now for some time and combine that tool like we explained in our video on how to setup an automatic email from an RSS and presto… it works great.
So, I will be going through and updating the existing RSS feeds to automatic emails that I have to the new system and then adding a few more interest groups as we expand this afternoon.
Until my next post,
James
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I’ve created more than one business that has earned me more than six figures from AdSense. The first time I wrote custom software to do it. The second time I used a free multi-blog software package called B2Evolution.
On this blog, I am using WordPress and currently recommend WordPress as the blogging software of choice to consulting clients for individual blogs that they decide to setup to run their businesses. In fact, if you reference the Special Report we have on recommended web hosting providers (free if you subscribe to the mailing list) you can get WordPress installed for free with just a couple clicks on the (often called, oddly enough, “one click installation”).
Before I created the network of about 300 blogs that I used the last time I generated six figures with AdSense I did consider the WordPress mu (multi-user) blog software package, but ultimately B2Evolution seemed like a better fit.
I am probably going to post the video called Earning Six Figures A Year With AdSense to the blog in a few moments where I discuss exactly how I did it and how I’d recommend anyone wanting to do it to go about it. On the video B2Evolution is the software that I shared with you that is free that you can use to build a network of blogs.
It has some powerful features like the ability to have content shared across a number of blogs, to have separate blogs for a variety of niches and/or geographical areas plus much more.
If you do need help, I offer consulting as well as our Business Bronze Membership.
Until my next post,
James
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I am sitting in my office in what I consider a pretty slow week–the week between Christmas and New Year’s–tackling a rather daunting project… convert my current business system to a Getting Things Done model.
I just downloaded the newest version of the Getting Things Done Workflow Processing and Organizing PDF (shown in the image to this post).
I will be using that as I go through a HUGE inbox full of stuff that I have to enter into my personal system. I decided to go with the software application Things for the Mac for my system along with the extension of Things for iPhone to integrate that with my mobile device.
With the amount of inbox processing I have to do today, I would not expect to see many posts from me today or tomorrow, but the good news is that with the new system you should see a massive increase in productivity after I do get everything setup.
Until my next post,
James
P.S. I will be making updates to many of our real estate investor wiki systems and business wiki systems based on the new improvements I am learning from implementing the Getting Things Done model so all our consulting clients and Bronze Members should be excited about some of those additional enhancements.
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A few minutes ago I posted an article about how I updated the list of recommended email broadcast and autoresponder service providers.
I also made a short video describing the difference between email broadcast and autoresponders as well as briefly describing how investors can use the new recommended provider free to have us help develop a relationship between them and their real estate investor list.
Watch the email broadcast and autoresponder video below:
Sincerely,
James
P.S. If you are a real estate investor Bronze Member (consulting client) with us and need help setting up your system, let me know as that is included with your membership.
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