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			<title>51 Minutes of Video Streaming Q&amp;A on Blogging</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:30:45 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days I&#8217;ve been running a number of impromptu video streaming sessions on ustream (on my ProBlogger channel). The sessions have largely been Question and Answer times with a lot of the questions being the kind of questions I get asked a lot - so today I thought I&#8217;d record the session [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.problogger.net">Blog Tips at ProBlogger</a>.<br />

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<p>Over the last few days I’ve been running a number of impromptu video streaming sessions on ustream (on my <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/problogger">ProBlogger channel</a>). The sessions have largely been Question and Answer times with a lot of the questions being the kind of questions I get asked a lot - so today I thought I’d record the session and make it available to others who were not on the live stream. Here it is (I hope Ustream is able to keep up with the demand - it’s been a bit slow for me today and I’ve heard a few others say they’ve struggled to see it):</p>
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<p>If you’d like to know when I do these Ustream sessions I tend to announce them on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/problogger">my Twitter account</a> - alternatively <a href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/problogger">follow me on Ustream</a> and I’ll hopefully answer your questions next time.</p>
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			<title>Win One of 20 Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit East</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:28:17 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for another @ProBloggerDeals giveaway - this time we&#8217;re giving away 20 Gold Passes to the Affiliate Summit East 2009 - they&#8217;re each worth $399.
This conference is one that I&#8217;ve been wanting to attend for a while now (maybe next year) but while I can&#8217;t get to this one I hope to experience it [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.problogger.net">Blog Tips at ProBlogger</a>.<br />

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<p><img src="http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/affiliate-summit-logo.gif" width="212" height="111" alt="affiliate_summit_logo.gif">It’s time for another <a href="http://www.twitter.com/probloggerdealseals">@ProBloggerDeals</a> giveaway - this time we’re giving away 20 Gold Passes to the <a href="http://www.affiliatesummit.com/">Affiliate Summit East 2009</a> - they’re each worth $399.</p>
<p>This conference is one that I’ve been wanting to attend for a while now (maybe next year) but while I can’t get to this one I hope to experience it a little through you!</p>
<p>A Gold Pass for this summit gets you Admission to the Meet Market, Exhibit Hall, Keynote sessions on Sunday, Networking Events, access to recorded session videos, powerfpoints and more. You can see what it does and doesn’t include <a href="http://www.affiliatesummit.com/register/">here</a>.</p>
<p>The event is being held August 9-11 at the New York Hilton.</p>
<p>To enter this giveaway all you need to do is leave a comment below. I’ll choose 20 people to win randomly in one week’s time.</p>
<p>Please only enter if you’re absolutely able to attend this event in New York. I’d really love all 20 winners to benefit from this so if you’re not sure you can attend please skip this one.</p>
<p>Make sure you’re following <a href="http://www.twitter.com/probloggerdealseals">@ProBloggerDeals</a> on Twitter for more deals, competitions and discounts for bloggers.</p>
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			<title>Time To Let Mustang In?</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:11:28 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Last night I saw Mustang for the first time in about a month. I haven&#8217;t been going at my usual time, and have been going on days when he&#8217;s not there, so we&#8217;ve just been missing each other.
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<p>Last night I saw <a href="http://www.fitdarcie.com/category/mustang/">Mustang</a> for the first time in about a month. I haven’t been going at my usual time, and have been going on days when he’s not there, so we’ve just been missing each other.</p>
<p>Last night, we had a conversation about Facebook, which, of course, he is not on. My grandma is on Facebook. I think the few straglers that are avoiding Facebook should just accept it…it wasn’t that long ago that people with cell phones were the abnormalities…let’s just accept that Facebook is a part of life now.</p>
<p>Anyway, he made several attempts to get me to give him my full name (without directly asking for it). And each time, I did what I normally do, I changed the subject. It’s been 2 years now…even if he did find out my name and googled me, I doubt he’d clue in that he’s Mustang. The guy doesn’t even have Facebook for crying out loud. Think I should just cave and let him know?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fitdarcie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mustang_thumbnail.jpg"><img title="mustang_thumbnail" src="http://www.fitdarcie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mustang_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="114"></a></p>
Tags: <a href="http://www.fitdarcie.com/tag/meeting-people/">meeting people</a>, <a href="http://www.fitdarcie.com/tag/mustang/">Mustang</a><p><a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=vany.darcie@gmail.com&amp;currency_code=&amp;amount=&amp;return=Thank you so much! And I do promise to use this money solely for the purpose of drinking beer.&amp;item_name=Buy+me+a+beer+for+Time+To+Let+Mustang+In?"></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/b5media-Staff-Feed/~4/ff9VWuU8PlQ" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>Where I’ll Be Speaking in the Upcoming Months</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:47:47 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Over the next few months I&#8217;ve got a few speaking commitments so rather than random Tweets about them I thought I&#8217;d create a post listing them. If you&#8217;re in the same city as any of these events I&#8217;d love to meet you. Of course they&#8217;re mainly Aussie events - I&#8217;m only able to travel once [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.problogger.net">Blog Tips at ProBlogger</a>.<br />

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<p><a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/09/where-ill-be-speaking-in-the-upcoming-months/">Where I&#8217;ll Be Speaking in the Upcoming Months</a></p>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattanium/2872438665/"><img src="http://www.problogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/darren-rowse-speaking.jpg" width="280" height="187" alt="darren-rowse-speaking.jpg"></a>Over the next few months I’ve got a few speaking commitments so rather than random Tweets about them I thought I’d create a post listing them. If you’re in the same city as any of these events I’d love to meet you. Of course they’re mainly Aussie events - I’m only able to travel once or twice a year at the moment with a young family.</p>

23 July - Melbourne - <a href="http://www.churchillclub.org.au/index.php?option=com_jevents&amp;task=icalrepeat.detail&amp;evid=151&amp;Itemid=0&amp;year=2009&amp;month=07&amp;day=23&amp;uid=7aa2c4276812ea34dcd8451af6b80061&amp;Itemid=0">The Churchill Club’s Blog Smog Event</a>.
23 July - Melbourne - <a href="http://tweetupmellers.info/">TweetupMellers</a> (a meetup for Twitter users - I won’t be speaking at this, just a normal attendee and I’ll try to get there after the other event)
30 July - Sydney - <a href="http://twitterbootcamp.com.au/">Twitter Bootcamp</a>
1 September - Sydney - <a href="http://www.futureofinfluencesummit.com/">Future of Influence Summit 2009</a> (TBC - I’m still needing to confirm this one)
22-23 September - Melbourne - <a href="http://marketingnow.biz/">Marketing Now</a> (line up will include Chris Brogan, David Armano, Laurel Papworth and Stephen Johnson).
October 15-17 - Las Vegas - <a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=177431&amp;u=286361&amp;m=13821&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=">Blog World and New Media Expo</a> (use the code ‘PROBLOGVIP’ to get a 20% discount).

<p>I hope to connect with you at some of these events.</p>
<p>Also worth noting - due to unforseen personal issues I’ve had to cancel my speaking at <a href="http://www.izeafest.com/">IZEAFEST</a>. I really was looking forward to that but needed to pull out of that unfortunately.</p>
<p>Image by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattanium/2872438665/">Matt Dickman</a> </p>
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			<title>Why Automated Blogging Tools Should Be Avoided</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:40:52 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the last week I&#8217;ve had 3 emails from makers of Automated Blogging tools, scripts and plugins (or RSS to Blog tools) asking me to promote their plugins and systems.
These tools all claim to be able to help you create content for your blog without you having to do anything except set it up, choose [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.problogger.net">Blog Tips at ProBlogger</a>.<br />

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<p>In the last week I’ve had 3 emails from makers of Automated Blogging tools, scripts and plugins (or RSS to Blog tools) asking me to promote their plugins and systems.</p>
<p>These tools all claim to be able to help you create content for your blog without you having to do anything except set it up, choose a keyword/s for your blog to be about.</p>
<p>The tools sales pages usually make claims like:</p>

“create targeted blog posts on any topic without writing anything!”
“start hundreds of blogs on any topic and never have to lift a finger to keep them pumping out as much content as you like!”
“generate traffic, money and blog posts while you sleep!”
“Achieve Higher Search Engine Rankings And Massive Affiliate Revenue With Self Updating Blogs”

<p>You get the picture - the list of the hyped up claims that the developers of automated blogging tools make goes on and on!</p>
<p>The fact that these people are asking me to promote these kinds of tools scares me a little as I’ve been pretty anti them in the past and don’t want to be associated with the in any way.</p>
<p>However it also makes me wonder how many bloggers are innocently signing up for them without knowing the dangers of doing so. After-all the sales copy on many of these tools sounds too good to be true - blogging made easy, lots of money, no work….</p>
<p>As a result I thought I’d put together a list of reasons why I would avoid ‘auto blogging’ tools at all costs.</p>
Reasons to avoid Automated blogging Tools and Services:
<p>1. Non Unique Content - at the heart of every successful and profitable blog that I’ve come across is unique content. Auto blogging tools all take content from other places on the web and automatically pull them together on your blog. They replicate what others are doing. They create duplicates of other people’s work. It’s not unique, it’s not original and it creates clutter.</p>
<p>Many of the automated blog tools sales pages say you can add to the content that these auto blogging tools use to add uniqueness to your blog but I’d argue that if you’re creating hundreds of blogs it’s pretty unlikely that you’ll be adding unique posts to many of them.</p>
<p>Blogs that are not unique, that don’t have a personal voice, that contain no original thought don’t tend to get links from other blogs, don’t tend to attract subscribers, readers or comments and don’t generally rank well in Google or other search engines.</p>
<p>2. Useless Content - the other main factor in successful blogs is that they create ‘useful’ content - the type of content that solves people’s problems, helps them solve a problem and makes their lives better in some way.</p>
<p>While some might argue that automated blogging tools can help people by finding this type of information my observation of most of them in action is that they are very hit and miss. Most rely upon you identifying keywords that you want your blog to be about and they then go searching for all kinds of content on those keywords.</p>
<p>As a result you can be publishing who knows what on your blog. Some of it may be useful but some of it might be completely irrelevant and even potentially harmful to readers. Many automated blogs that I come across are a step up from being ‘gibberish’.</p>
<p>3. Personal Satisfaction - early in my own blogging I created a number of blogs that I called ‘link blogs’. They looked at what others were writing online and manually (no tools) collated some of it onto one site. I added some of my own thoughts and it did provide usefulness to readers because it was high quality and all in the one place for readers - but the process almost killed my passion for blogging. It was an empty process for me with no real sense of satisfaction. I stopped doing these kinds of blogs (even though they did make me money and readers complained that it was useful to them).</p>
<p>At it’s best - blogging is an exciting, interactive and fun experience that can give you inspiration, ideas and energy. This kind of blogging (ie using these automated tools) is about none of that.</p>
<p>4. Risk - all of the sales pages on these tools talk about how you can use these tools with all kinds of content legally by using content from sites with APIs, open source content or creative commons content. However almost every time I’ve come across a blog using automated blogging tools they have been scraping content from other blogs without permission from their RSS feeds.</p>
<p>Some blogs allow you to use their content but most do not. There’s real risk in using content from other sites in this way on a number of levels:</p>

Breaking Copyright - use the wrong persons content without your permission and you could end up on the end of legal proceedings.
DMCAs and Risk to Your Hosting and Ad Partner Relationships - when I catch someone scraping my content I generally give them a warning but follow that up by issuing DMCAs to them, their site’s host and sometimes their advertisers (like AdSense). This can lead to you losing your hosting and being banned from ad networks (for example AdSense don’t allow you to put your ads on pages where you don’t own the copyright of the content). I know a lot of bloggers who issue DMCAs without warning and push a lot harder on these issues than I do - it can be a nightmare to have to work through these kinds of things.
Damage to Your Brand - many bloggers skip the DMCA process and go with a ‘name and shame’ approach and publically call out those who steal their content. This can have a lasting impact upon your brand and personal name. There’s nothing worse than doing a Google search for your name and seeing the #1 result being a post an angry blogger wrote about you stealing their content.
Google Penalties - ever heard of ‘duplicate content’? It’s what Google calls content that appears in more than one place on the web. I don’t know exactly how they treat this content but do know that they try to weed it out of their search results. They don’t get it all but they do get a lot of it and I suspect that a site that is largely classified as ‘duplicate’ will never be seen as an authoritative site on Google.

<p>5. Create Something Worthwhile - my take home advice for bloggers is to create something online that is worthwhile, something that matters, something that inspires, informs and educates. Do this over the long haul and you’ll create something that not only means something but that has every chance of having lasting success.</p>
<p>I’ve heard from a few bloggers that they’ve had some success with automated blogging tools (although most of these were a couple of years back) but in every case they tell me that it’s usually temporary. They start blogs, see a bit of Google traffic before being banned from Google.</p>
<p>Their blogs never really amount to anything, they never build their own profile or become known as authorities in their niches, they never create useful sites that become niche leaders and to make money they have to keep starting new blogs over and over again.</p>
<p>To me this seems like an empty existence.</p>
<p>Me - I’d rather create something worthwhile that will not only survive but that will grow in momentum, build my brand and mean something to people.</p>
<p>What are you experiences of automated blogging tools?</p>
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<p>I hang out at the same coffee shop once a week to read my paper. For the last 3.5 years, I’ve been going to the same coffee shop, and sitting in the same spot. Another creature of habit, male, frequents the same coffee shop, at the same time, and sits accross the shop from me. We would catch each other’s eye often. He seemed like he might be a good catch, black, chiseled, had similar interests…but there was never really an opportunity for me to speak to him.</p>
<p>I realise this seems like a long time to go about glancing at someone, but my interest in him was rather thin. Sure, he looked alright, but he wasn’t so attractive that I would get up from my seat, interupt my paper-reading time and talk to him. About a year ago, we ended up at the cash register at the same time. What I learned from that encounter shocked me.</p>
<p>First of all, he was much shorter than I imagined, which began the waning of my interest in him. Secondly, he was Filipino, not black. I have no problem with Filipinos…just a preference for black men. Before you all get high-and-mighty on me, please note that this has NOTHING to do with culture, and is strictly a physical preference…like men prefering blondes over brunettes. So those were two major blows for him, considering my interest in him was that of a purely physical nature, and not a strong one at that.</p>
<p>So, I’ve spent the last year ignoring him and trying to avoid catching his eye. I’ve never heard him speak, and don’t really care to. He doesn’t seem that interesting to me. (Please don’t write in the comment section that I should have gone up to him and spoken to him before making that judgement. I owe this man nothing.)</p>
<p>He’d been missing from the coffee shop for the past 2 months, which was a little odd, since he was more of a regular than me. I assumed he’d moved from the area. Then, last week, he brought a date to the coffee shop. On a scale of 1 to 10, my level of jealousy was about .5. I do beleive I was entitled to have him think of me before going to bed every day for the rest of my life, but, like I said, I had no real interest in him.</p>
<p>The thing that got me about this encounter, was that he seemed to be showing her off to me. He kept giving me these looks as though to say “you missed your chance! now I’m taken!” And that seemed to piss me off.</p>
<p>Point? If a man can’t have me, he should never be able to have anyone. Especially not some woman who wears a scarf.</p>
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			<title>Olympus PEN stop motion photography ad</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:20:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>Olympus created this beautiful promotional video for their new <a href="http://www.olympusamerica.com/cpg_section/product.asp?product=1461">PEN E-P1 digital camera</a>. I was already excited about the camera; it seems that Olympus is, too.</p>
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			<title>How to Raise a Dragon</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:40:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>More than 4 years ago, <a href="http://www.b5media.com">b5media</a> started. More than 3 years ago, I met Rick Segal to talk about somehow getting a bit of cash into the company. We were originally talking 30-50K, hah. 3 years ago, Rick and <a href="http://www.jlaventures.com">JLA Ventures</a> and Mark and the <a href="http://www.brightspark.com/">Brightspark</a> crew decided to invest a lot of money in a little company with a very, very young CEO.</p>
<p>In many ways,  Rick was incredibly smart and did his best to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Raise-Keep-Dragon-Nigg/dp/0764159208/">raise a dragon</a>. He gave me and the b5media team space, let us eat whatever we wanted, let us roam in the backyard til we were ready for the big bad world, taught us to fly and occasionally fed us pigs and chickens whenever we got tired or sick.</p>
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<p>When you’re just starting your first VC-backed company, there is just so much  you don’t know, are  afraid of, don’t think to be afraid of, etc. Rick was amazing at always choosing his companies first, always choosing his CEOs first, always giving you his straight up opinion and always, always, always going to bat for you when you needed him to.</p>
<p>So it’s with a bit of sadness, but mostly excitement that I’m welcoming Rick back to the startup world after his announcement that <a href="http://ricksegal.typepad.com/pmv/2009/07/thanks-for-all-the-fish.html">he’s leaving JLA</a>. Most folk either don’t know or have forgotten that Rick was a startup guy long before he was a VC. Dunno why, it’s probably becuase his polo shirts totally make him  look like a VC and not like a startup guy <img src="http://www.ensight.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";-)"> </p>
<p>If there’s a type of VC Canada needs more of, it’s the type that Rick was (minus the polo shirts, please?).</p>
<p>Either way, Rick was fantastic for me personally, amazing for b5 and I know he’ll do great things for the startup community now that he’s back on the more glamorous side  of the fence, lol.</p>
<p>So Rick, thanks for teaching me what to eat, what not to eat, how to fly and where to take a dump.  I’d be a much poorer and sicklier dragon if you hadn’t helped raise me <img src="http://www.ensight.org/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)"> </p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/b5media-Staff-Feed/~4/UHF6-KSXE-U" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:29:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>OK, I get pretty bored of my site design really quick and it negatively affects my blogging.  (Truthfully, I’ve been focusing more on my new blog <a href="http://www.protwit.com">http://www.protwit.com</a>, but moreover, I’m just a lazy blogger)  </p>
<p>I got the inspiration to use the <a href="http://www.woothemes.com/amember/go.php?r=7192&amp;&amp;=b0">wootheme</a> template after reading a friend’s blog <a href="http://www.incomediary.com/">http://www.incomediary.com/</a> which also uses a cusomtized version of the same theme.  Obviously Micheal’s has a much slicker look with the custom designs <img src="http://www.advertisespace.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)"> </p>
<p>I might also play around with a new logo, but I need to get this one to blend nicer.</p>
<p>(Hopefully the new design will help motivate me to blog a little more.)</p>
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			<title>How to Find Profitable Affiliate Products to Promote</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:20:45 -0400</pubDate>
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<p>“How do I find affiliate products to promote on my blog?”</p>
<p>Last week I spoke with a small group of bloggers here in Melbourne over a coffee. One of the topics that a number of them were interested in talking about was <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/07/what-is-affiliate-marketing/">affiliate marketing</a>. They were struggling with the advertising as a model to make money from their blogs and wanted to branch out and experiment with affiliate promotions on their blog.</p>
<p>However wanting to get into affiliate marketing and actually doing it are two different things. There are a number of challenges to overcome first.</p>
<p>One of these challenges is finding the right product to promoted.</p>
<p>Choosing the right products to promote in affiliate promotions is crucial for a number of reasons - the two main ones being:</p>
<p>1. Relevant Products are Key - if your blog draws an audience centered around a particular topic or demographic you’re unlikely to be able to sell products that have no relevancy to your blog’s topic.</p>
<p>2. The Quality of Products can Impact Your Long Term Brand - promote low quality products and you could be hurting your brand. Readers remember who they heard about products from and their trust of you and your blog will be increased or decreased by what you recommend to them.</p>
<p>So - choosing the right affiliate product is crucial. It not only impacts conversions and profitability but it impacts your brand and relationships with readers.</p>
How to Find the Right Affiliate Product to Promote
<p>A few tips and thoughts on finding affiliate programs to promote come to mind:</p>

Google It - this one isn’t rocket science but it does work. If you have a Beauty Product blog google “Beauty Products Affiliate Program”. Insert your main keywords into that search and you may just find products that are relevant to your niche.
Look at Your Competition - what products are other people promoting in your niche. Quite often a quick glance down the sidebar of another successful blog in your niche to see what products and services they are promoting will reveal affiliate products you could promote to (and it could also point you to some relevant advertisers to promote).
Check out AdSense Ads - many of the AdSense ads appearing besides Google search results, on other blogs and even on your own blog are likely to be products with affiliate programs attached. Don’t click the ads on your own blog but checking out what the ads promote can reveal all kinds of potential affiliate partners. The same thing is true with other types of advertising. For example I was recently surfing on Facebook and saw an ad relevant for my blog - on clicking it I found a new product with an affiliate program that I’d not heard of before.
Approach Potential Affiliate Partners - this one might not work if you’re a new blog with small traffic but as your blog grows you might find yourself in a position to approach the makers of a product or service to see if they’d start some kind of affiliate program for you. I’ve done this a couple of times over the last year and it has been great. The best part of it is that you get a head start on your competition for the promotion as you’re likely to be the only person promoting it.
Search Affiliate networks - lastly there are quite a few affiliate networks around that list many affiliate programs. Most of these have search functions to allow you to type in keywords and find promotions relevant to your niche. Check out <a href="http://www.marketleverage.com">MarketLeverage</a>, <a href="http://www.clickbank.com">Clickbank</a>, <a href="http://www.cj.com">Commission Junction</a>, <a href="http://www.pntra.com/t/QDtEPz9HO0FERDtBQ0M">PepperJam Network</a> (disclaimer, MarketLeverage sponsors ProBlogger) and many more.
Search Online Stores for Products - many online stores like Amazon have affiliate programs attached to them. In general the comissions are not massive (for example Amazon’s range from as low as 4% up to 15% depending upon the type of product and how much you sell) - I guess they have narrower profit margins) - but stores like this have a massive range of products and can be a good place to start while you build traffic and find other programs.

<p>How do you find affiliate products to promote on your blogs?</p>
<p>PS: this post builds upon yesterdays post - <a href="http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/07/07/what-is-affiliate-marketing/">What is Affiliate Marketing?</a></p>
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			<title>10 Easy Ways to get Quickly BANNED on Twitter</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:12:56 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Getting your accounts suspended at twitter is actually a lot harder than you think.  Twitter has pretty thick skin and lets most users get away with murder.  You need to really piss off a lot of folks to get banned.  Here is a way to speed up that process&#8230;
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<p>Getting your accounts suspended at twitter is actually a lot harder than you think.  Twitter has pretty thick skin and lets most users get away with murder.  You need to really piss off a lot of folks to get banned.  Here is a way to speed up that process…</p>
<p>- Choose a very random name -  guy1285748ljd is a great one and available!!</p>
<p>- Don’t bother to upload a photo. - Keep that awesome looking brown twitter default image.</p>
<p>- Squat on a really cool name. Register TweetGuru and sit on it for a year.</p>
<p>- Pretend you are famous. OK, this is fun, and the fun won’t last.  My buddy pretended he was the rock for a few months and it was hilarious. Hot strippers were even DM’ing him to hook up.   Account finally got banned.</p>
<p>- Don’t tweet at all. Just start following lots of people before doing anything else.</p>
<p>- Just wait for Twitter to mess up. Yup, even following all the rules and tweeting on your best behaviour might get you banned*</p>
<p>- Tweet over and over - Tweet the same message all day every day, every hour on the hour.  Don’t change the wording at all.</p>
<p>- Tweet only affiliate links - Tweet your favorite Acai berry diets and ring tone deals ALL day.</p>
<p>- Tweet only links to your blog - Even better just tweet the URL with no context.</p>
<p>- Tweet A LOT - If all else fails in getting your account suspended, tweet every few seconds about everything minute annoying detail in your life to really piss off your followers!</p>
<p>*Random recent Account suspensions <a href="http://mashable.com/2009/07/05/twitter-account-suspensions/">article over at Mashable</a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/b5media-Staff-Feed/~4/Ys8yOVqtgXc" height="1" width="1"/>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title>I’m Too Approachable</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:17:09 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I just got back from a trip back home (sorry I haven&#8217;t been responding to comments&#8230;my parents are still on dial-up). I don&#8217;t mind flying. It&#8217;s the ultimate down-time. I&#8217;m usually alone, with a book, a few movies on my iPod, lame card-games on my blackberry&#8230; I go prepared. I usually keep my headphones on [...]]]></description>
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<p>I just got back from a trip back home (sorry I haven’t been responding to comments…my parents are still on dial-up). I don’t mind flying. It’s the ultimate down-time. I’m usually alone, with a book, a few movies on my iPod, lame card-games on my blackberry… I go prepared. I usually keep my headphones on the whole time, to indicate that I am not willing to get into 3.5 hours of small talk with a stranger just because he won the draw and got to sit next to me. Apparently, I come off as too approachable.</p>
<p>Last May, I was flying home, and before I could even put my bags in the overhead compartment, the man occupying the seat next to me said “Oh I’m so glad I have someone to talk to! I sat alone on my first flight!”. During the course of the next 3.5 hours, Victor cried 3 times, held my hand, offered me money for some prayer cards and gave me his son’s phone number. We hugged at the baggage carousel, after I met his daughter in-law.</p>
<p>This time, I was seated first, and my seating partner on the half-empty plane gave me a toothy grin as he stored his bag above. I tried to use sleep as an excuse to avoid conversation, but I could feel him staring at me while I slept, anticipating my waking so we could chit-chat. I caved. Josue is a Baptist minister originally from Haiti. Need to know anything about Haiti? Ask me.</p>
<p>I truly don’t mind these lengthy conversations with strangers, but I never initiate or seek them. I try to avoid them. So why is it that these people can’t get the hint that I want to be left alone.</p>
<p>I also notice the common thread of religion in both of the above vignettes. Maybe they just see me as needing God?</p>
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			<title>What is Affiliate Marketing?</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:11:55 -0400</pubDate>
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In a recent poll here on ProBlogger I asked readers whether they&#8217;d done any affiliate marketing on their blogs. The results revealed that:

29% of readers regularly do it
24% occasionally do it
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<p>What is Affiliate Marketing? </p>
<p>It seems that more readers are asking this question than I previously thought.</p>
<p>In a recent poll here on ProBlogger I asked readers whether they’d done any affiliate marketing on their blogs. The results revealed that:</p>

29% of readers regularly do it
24% occasionally do it
27% have never done affiliate marketing on their blogs
6% used to do it but don’t any more
14% don’t know what affiliate marketing is

<p>There’s some interesting results there but it was the last category (of bloggers not knowing what affiliate marketing is) that I wanted to write this post for with the hope of answering the question. It’s pretty basic and quite beginner focused but for the 14% of you who don’t know what affiliate marketing is - here’s a brief introduction.</p>
What is Affiliate Marketing?
<p>Perhaps the simplest way to explain affiliate marketing is that it is a way of making money online whereby you as a publisher are rewarded for helping a business by promoting their product, service or site.</p>
<p>There are a number of forms of these types of promotions but in most cases they involve you as a publisher earning a commission when someone follows a link on your blog to another site where they then buy something.</p>
<p>Other variations on this are where you earn an amount for referring a visitor who takes some kind of action - for example when they sign up for something and give an email address, where they complete a survey, where they leave a name and address etc.</p>
<p>Commissions are often a percentage of a sale but can also be a fixed amount per conversion.</p>
<p>Conversions are generally tracked when the publisher (you) uses a link with a code only being used by you embedded into it that enables the advertiser to track where conversions come from (usually by cookies). Other times an advertiser might give a publisher a ‘coupon code’ for their readers to use that helps to track conversions.</p>
<p>For example:  when I recently released my <a href="http://www.problogger.net/31dbbb-workbook/">31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook</a> I also give people an opportunity to promote the workbook with an affiliate program whereby they could earn a 40% commission for each sale. When you sign up to become an affiliate you are given a special code unique to you that enables you to promote the workbook and make $7.98 per sale. The top affiliates earned over $2000 in the first few weeks after launch through these commissions.</p>

Advertisers often prefer affiliate marketing as a way to promote their products because they know they’ll only need to pay for the advertising when there’s a conversion. I knew when I started this affiliate program that while I’d earn less for each sale that having a network of affiliates promoting it would almost certainly increase overall sales levels.
Publishers often prefer affiliate marketing because if they find a product that is relevant to their niche that earnings can go well in excess of any cost per click or cost per impression advertising campaign.

Why Affiliate Marketing Can Work Well on Blogs
<p>Affiliate marketing isn’t the only way to make money from blogs and it won’t suit every blog/blogger (more on this below) but there are a few reasons why it can be profitable in our medium. Perhaps the biggest of these reasons is that affiliate marketing seems to work best when there’s a relationship with trust between the publisher and their readership.</p>
<p>I’ve found that as this trust deepens that readers are more likely to follow the recommendations that a blogger makes.</p>
<p>Of course this can also be a negative with affiliate marketing - promote the wrong product and trust can be broken (more on this below).</p>
Affiliate Marketing - Easy Money?
<p>While affiliate marketing can be incredibly lucrative it is important to know that affiliate marketing is not easy money. Most people who try it make very little as it relies upon numerous factors including:</p>

traffic (high traffic helps a lot)
finding relevant products
finding quality products
building trust with your readers
having a readership who is in a ‘buying mood’
you being able to write good sales copy (and more)

<p>There’s also some risk associated with affiliate marketing in that if you push too hard or promote products of a low quality you can actually burn readers and hurt your reputation and brand.</p>
<p>It’s also worth noting that affiliate marketing doesn’t work on all blogs. Some blogs are on topics where it is hard to find products to promote - other blogs attract audiences who are not in a buying frame of mind and for other blogs it just doesn’t fit with the blogger’s style or approach.</p>
<p>Tomorrow I want to continue the focus upon affiliate marketing with another post - this one on how to find affiliate products to promote.</p>
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			<title>Commitment- The Conversation</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:59:39 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I did a post last week about me and my inability to have someone commit to me. I was discussing its finer points with a collegue of mine at my temp job, and we were talking about the conversation each couple eventually undergoes about where they stand in the level of commitment.
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<p>I did a post last week about me and <a href="http://www.fitdarcie.com/commitment/">my inability to have someone commit to me</a>. I was discussing its finer points with a collegue of mine at my temp job, and we were talking about the conversation each couple eventually undergoes about where they stand in the level of commitment.</p>
<p>Us women are petrified of having this conversation. When we ask the question “are you seeing other people?”, men hear it as “we should be getting married”. Men, you have to know, this isn’t even close to what we are asking. It’s not an indication of how we feel about you or whether or not we see a long-term relationship happening here…we just want to know all the facts so that we can make appropriate decisions for ourselves.</p>
<p>A while ago, I was in that stage with a guy…I wasn’t sure if he was exclusive to me yet or not. I was traveling, and met a guy at the baggage carousel…a doctor, and he was gorgeous. He asked for my number, and I seriously considered giving it to him…but then I thought about the guy I was dating at the time. I had no clue where we stood, and not sure if I really liked him, but wanted to be fair, so I told the doctor that I was in a relationship.</p>
<p>When I met up with the guy I was seeing, I asked him if he was seeing other people. He said “Look, can’t we just see where this leads?” (This, by the way, is the stupidest thing men ever say. Isn’t it obvious that no matter where a relationship goes, we will be seeing where it leads?). I tried to explain that I wasn’t asking him for his hand in marriage, but I couldn’t say “I want to know if I can see other people”. He ended up dumping me a week later because I was moving too fast. I didn’t even like him.</p>
<p>My hunky chiropractor gave me the best, and super logical advice on this matter…if I would be upset that he’s seeing other people, then I shouldn’t see other people.</p>
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			<title> 'Brian Layman’s Weekly Twitter Update for 2009-07-05' by Brian </title>
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RT @dlayphoto: Can u help? #Eric needs a new heart. Please spread the word. http://weloveeric.com #fryretweet #
I've had 3 wins in 3 days. That's a good thing… #
RT @problogger: New at ProBlogger: Become a Blogger Reopens for 5 Days Only – Now Cheaper Than Ever http://twurl.nl/5ad6wk #
Hey @jeremywright Happy Birthday Mr. Thirty Something… #
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<p>At the bottom of this post is a coupon code to give you a $50 credit at MyAds - this is not an affiliate promotion, just a take it or leave it offer from MyAds.</p>
<p>Over the last week or so I’ve had the opportunity to see inside the MyAds from MySpace.</p>
<p>MyAds have been an advertiser here on ProBlogger for a month or two now (consider that a disclaimer) so I wanted to see for myself how it worked. What I found was a very easy to use and pretty affordable way to advertise a product, service or even your blog.</p>
<p>In short - MyAds is a pay per click banner advertising system where you can advertise on MySpace and get your message in front of potentially millions upon millions of MySpace users.</p>
<p>You can use it with an advertising budget of as little as $5 a day and have a pretty good looking ad set up to run within just a few minutes using their ad building tool (or you can upload your own using an uploader).</p>
<p>Worth noting before we go any further is that to run a campaign you need a US address and credit card. As someone without either of these I could only go as far as designing an ad and testing out the targeting features. I did however talk to a number of MyAds advertisers to get their feedback (see below).</p>
<p>Setting up an ad is easy. Even me as a design challenged guy got one set up in a few minutes. I put a mock ad together for my 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Workbook. Here’s a screenshot of the page where you set up the ads (click to enlarge):</p>
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<p>As you’ll see there are three ad size options and it’s as simple as typing in your ad copy, adding an image, choosing a background color and adding in a destination URL.</p>
<p>You can then preview your and move on to working out who you want to see it as well as setting a budget.</p>
<p>On the following screenshot you’ll see the section to choose your target audience:</p>
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<p>As you make your choices about who you want to see the ad the grey area the bottom of the screen changes. It shows you how many users on MySpace will potentially see your ad as well as giving you a suggested bid price for how much the ad might cost per click to run.</p>
<p>The targeting options look pretty good - not only can you target by demographics (gender, age, education, relationships, parental status and location within the US) but you can also choose categories of interests and occupations of the type of person you want to reach with your ad. I tried a number of options and got the target number of people to reach quite focused and the suggested cost per click quite a bit lower than what you see in the above screenshot.</p>
<p>This enables you to increase the chances of conversion with your ad quite considerably.</p>
<p>All in all from where I stand MyAds seems like something that I’d like to use if I were running an ad campaign for a product, service or even to launch a new blog. I’ve previously used similar ad systems on other social networks with some success and the easy of use of MyAds plus what looks like great targeting make it an attractive option.</p>
<p>How Does it Perform? Testimony from a Heavy User of MyAds</p>
<p>As I was unable to go much further in the process (as a non US resident) I approached a number of people to get their feedback on the ads. One of those I talked with was Joe Frevola from <a href="http://www.globalizernetwork.com/">Globalizer</a> who uses MyAds quite extensively. I asked Joe a number of questions to get his insight on the why and how of MyAds:</p>
<p>How have you used MyAds and How has it performed?</p>
<p>Globalizer uses Myspace MyAds to buy media for our <a href="http://www.globalizernetwork.com/">GlobalizerNetwork</a> advertisers. We have had tremendous success with several campaigns on MySpace and have been impressed with its powerful targeting tools, which we have utilized to target the demographics and interests of our audience.</p>
<p>In comparison with Facebook, it’s hard to pick a clear cut winner and both should be a part of your media buy in most cases. Each has advantages and disadvantages and the best choice of the two will vary based on the type of campaign you are running.</p>
<p>While MySpace’s targeting tool is more organized and allows you to select keywords sorted by categories and sub categories, Facebook’s keyword search tool allows you to access a more robust database of target interest. MySpace does have useful demographic targeting that you can’t get with Facebook, such as the ability to specifically target mothers or recently married individuals.</p>
<p>Both MySpace and Facebook have solid targeting tools that should allow you to push positive ROI. While the Facebook ad platform is global, you can only target US users on MySpace currently, however word is MySpace is adding new countries later in the year. I would highly recommend the use of both ad networks to just about any advertiser.</p>
<p>Do you have any tips for using MyAds to share with ProBlogger readers?</p>
<p>There are some tricks to getting the most out of MySpace MyAds. Globalizer runs a lot of lead generation campaigns that drive a very high response, but don’t pay high bounties per conversion and therefore don’t allow us to pay very high CPC’s.</p>
<p>Often, when you start a campaign with a very low CPC, the ads delivers very little or no volume at all. We find that in order to kick start this sort of campaign, we overpay on CPC in the beginning and fully expect to take a short term loss as MySpace’s optimization system values the quality of our offers.</p>
<p>In the end, the system just wants to back into the highest eCPM, so the fact that our ads are driving very high click through rates more than compensates for the lower CPC. Once the campaign starts getting significant delivery, we are able to adjust our rate down to a profitable number and continue to experience a great a volume of traffic.</p>
<p>Also, when you first start running a new campaign on MySpace, definitely go with your gut and select targets that you feel will have the best chance of success with your offer. However, don’t neglect to test various demographics that you might not think would typically perform with your ads. You will often be surprised at the demos that respond to your offers.</p>
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<p>If you’d like to test MyAds for yourself (IF you’re in the US) they’ve given me a coupon code for ProBlogger readers to try it out and get $50 credit to use in doing so. You need to be new to MyAds to redeem it (ie if you’ve already used MyAds it’s not redeemable).</p>
<p>To use it - just design an ad and at the end of the process use the coupon code of Pro50. Of course this is only for those who are residents of the US and have US address and credit card details.</p>
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<p>Fine Darcie, I get it. You aren’t going to marry me. Since I have professed my love, you have done approximately 10 “Potential Husband” posts, none of them was me. Fine, I’ve moved on. I’m going to divert my attention to getting married myself. Thus, I give you my own list of potential wives.  First, let me say that these are all wives I think are obtainable for me, a brilliant dancer, basketball player and van surfer. I’ll be looking for girls that have a propensity towards athletic types. I’m also not going to throw out names like Megan Fox or Jessica Alba, mostly because I don’t think I have a chance in hell with them.</p>
<p>Without further adieu, I give you my top 5 wife candidates.</p>
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<p>1. Elisha Cuthbert. I’ve loved Elisha for a long, long time. I remember her as a cute little girl on “Popular Mechanics for Kids” and I have been creepily following her career ever since.  I absolutely fell in love with her in “The Girl next door” where she played a stripper. I heart strippers. Anyways, the reason I think she is my #1 potential wife is based on who she is dating now. She is dating Dion Phaneuf a caveman-like hockey player with the Calgary Flames.  If she is going to date a Calgarian, why not me? I’m better looking, more talented and as mentioned in my last post, I can breathe through my ears. Elisha, if you are reading, I love you. Marry me.</p>
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<p>2. Hilary Duff. Don’t laugh. Have you seen pictures of her lately? She is grown up VERY nicely. Hilary also likes Canadian athletic types as she has dated a couple hockey players. Hilary also has something that I find very appealing to me, a fuckload of money. Hilary and I also have something in common, we are both multi-talented.  She is a great singer and actor and I am pretty much brilliant at everything that I do. Can you imagine our offspring? We’d have superkids that could moonwalk out of her womb while reciting Chaucer.</p>
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<p>3. Kaley Cuoco. There really aren’t any sitcoms on TV that I find watchable anymore. I really like “How I met your mother” as well as “The Big Bang Theory”. If I had to pick one over the other, I’d pick the Big Bang theory, because of my #3 potential wife. Simply put, she is the perfect woman. She is gorgeous, great body, nice smile and a great sense of humour. There really isn’t any reason why she would be drawn to me, other than my awesomness but I read that she is currently single and looking. I am currently single and want to hump Kaley Cuoco. Really, it’s just simple math.</p>
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<p>4. Kate Hudson. Let me start this off by saying that the only reason Kate is #4 is that as much as it pains me to say it, she might be out of my league. I’d actually put Kate above the aforementioned Megan Fox or Jessica Alba, this is how much I love her. Kate is currently dating baseball “star” Alex Rodriguez, so obviously she is attracted to athletes. She was married to Chris Robinson so she is attracted to musically inclined hairy dudes, which again bodes well for me. I just need some way to actually meet her. I periodically fax her pictures of my penis with the narrative “You likey? Call me, TW”. Unfortunately this venture has proved to be fruitless. If you have any pointers on how I can meet and swoon Kate, lemme know.</p>
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<p>5. Britney Spears from “Oops I did it again”. In her heyday, Britney was my favorite. Unfortunately since the early part of the decade, she has chosen the Michael Jackson career path. However, I do think that Britney Circa 2000 and Teenwolf circa 2009 would be a match made in heaven. I could have prevented her downward spiral and she would allow me to play with her bits and pieces. Another thing that would draw me to her is her red jumpsuit she wears in this Video. I personally think that I would look great in a red pleather jumpsuit and would like to borrow it. I bet it would make my junk look really sweet.</p>
<p>So there, that’s my list. Darcie, have fun with Lenny and the Rock and whoever the hell you want to marry, I’m going to pick from one of these 5 blonde young ladies.
Teenwolf out.
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			<description><![CDATA[One month ago I wrote an open letter to Google/Feedburner suggesting that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner - particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those subscribing to a feed via RSS.
It seems that they&#8217;ve been hard at work on that very feature.
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<p>One month ago I wrote an <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/feed">open letter to Google/Feedburner</a> suggesting that it might be time to add some more features to Feedburner - particularly the ability to customize subject lines of those subscribing to a feed via RSS.</p>
<p>It seems that they’ve been hard at work on that very feature.</p>
<p>Today I logged into my Feedburner account and noticed this in the ‘Email Branding’ area.</p>
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<p>Yep - it’s the feature we’ve been waiting for! All you need to do now is add the tag ${latestItemTitle} into the subject line and it looks like you’re set to have new subject lines on each email sent.</p>
<p>There’s no official word on this new feature yet from Feedburner.</p>
<p>Ironically it was only a few hours ago that I emailed a few questions to Feedburner who have agreed to an interview here on ProBlogger. Expect to hear more from Feedburner in the coming few days - hopefully this is a sign of things to come as they take Feedburner to the next level!</p>
<p>Thanks for listening Feedburner.</p>
<p>A hat tip to <a href="http://www.itsfrugalbeinggreen.com/">Carrie</a> who emailed me about this new feature - nice pick up!</p>
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