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What You Can Publish via RSS
Copyright 2005 Rok Hrastnik
Contrary to popular opinion, RSS is not only good for delivering
content from your blog, but has much more marketing and
publishing potential.
In fact, RSS can be used to deliver a great variety of content
and content types. If you can break down your content in to
individual stories or individual pieces, you can deliver it via
RSS.
Just to give you an impression of the power of RSS, here are
some examples of content you can publish using it …
–> MarketingVOX is using RSS to deliver internet marketing news
to their readers as it becomes available. Instead of having to
wait to receive all the news in a single e-mail newsletter, RSS
users get them as soon as they are ready.
–> Amazon.com is using RSS to announce their bestsellers and to
help their users keep track of releases they are most interested
in.
–> Some affiliate managers already communicate with their
affiliates using RSS. You can of course use it to communicate
with any other target audience as well, such as your employees
or team-members, and even your company owners.
–> FindSavings.com uses RSS to deliver savings coupons and
related information.
–> Lockergnome uses RSS to provide visitors with the latest
downloads and relevant software. Yet again other companies are
using RSS to deliver product updates and patches directly to
their customers, just as they become available.
–> A few hundred content publishers are using RSS to deliver
audio content, such as .mp3 interviews and even “radio” shows.
–> Textamerica.com allows people to post pictures, videos &
text from their mobile phones and then make this content
available via RSS feeds.
–> Other companies are using RSS to deliver whitepapers and
other educational content, even PowerPoint presentations.
–> One company uses RSS as a consulting billing awareness tool.
The consultants create activity reports and the RSS feeds from
the activity channels carry the billable information to the
accounting staff for invoice preparation.
–> Many internet publishers are using RSS to deliver their
newsletters, as a supplement to their e-mail delivery. Since
many people no longer want to give their e-mail address away to
publishers, this is a great way to keep your e-zine readership
growing.
–> Publish living digital catalogues of your products and
provide your customers with your latest product releases, broken
down by the categories they’re interested in, and make it easy
for them to order.
–> Provide your affiliates and marketing partners with RSS
feeds they can promote to their visitors to better promote your
products and still make a commission. Amazon.com is already
doing it. When are you starting?
–> Create RSS autoresponders with scheduled messages, to keep
in constant “marketing” contact with your prospects and slowly
get them to the point of purchase.
–> Provide limited-access content to your customers, employees,
team members and even investors, without fearing other unwanted
eyes. Use RSS for internal communications, teamworking and other
needs.
–> Provide your customers with easy access to software updates,
delivered to them exactly as they become available, without the
fuss of having to visit your web site or deal with huge e-mail
attachments, which would get blocked by spam filters anyway.
–> Newsreporters are constantly bombarded with e-mail, so why
not instead deliver your press releases via RSS? Or even better
yet, why not deliver some of your releases as video comments,
interviews or statements from your company managers or owners?
–> Help your visitors keep up with what’s going on in your web
forum, by publishing your latest forum posts or whole threads
via RSS.
Hopefully these ideas are enough to get you started with RSS in
your own business.
Rok Hrastnik
http://www.articlesbase.com/ecommerce-articles/what-you-can-publish-via-rss-1028.html
What publishing companies will publish novalists under eighteen?
I’ve just finished my first novel and want to get it published, but I don’t know of any publishing companies that would publish someone still in High School.
Put it on the net. Build a fan base.
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First what ever you do get it copyrighted then go from there I would just get a hold of publishers and see if they would publish your novel
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Publishers aren’t interested in how young or old you are, only how well you write. If you can write as well as or better than most adult authors, any of them would consider you. If you are below the age of majority where you live (it’s not legal for you to enter into a contract), your parent or guardian would have to sign the publishing contract on your behalf.
Having said that, if this is your first novel, it’s almost certainly not good enough to be published. (You do occasionally hear of authors getting their first novel published, but the key word is "occasionally" - those people are the exceptions.) If you haven’t already edited it, do that. Take out at least 10% of the words. It will probably need to be edited again after that. Join a critique group. Listen to what they have to say. By now, you’ll probably be sick of your first novel, so start writing another, applying what you’ve learned. On average, the fourth or fifth one has a chance of being good enough to be published.
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Authors are made – not born at the first sign of christening and as long as you can write and pull off a manuscript at an early age of what, 6, you can be a published author.
Self-publishing is one venue for authors who wanted to test how their book will fare in the market.
To get into a contract, yes, you must have someone legal to assist you with it. Self-publishing will entail you to make a deposit before going through production and any financial transaction done should be legitimate.
How can you NOT publish? I have known of authors who started as early as 6 to 10- years old.
With parent’s consent, supervision and resources, these children are already raking exposure in the publishing industry as young as they are now.
Best of luck!
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