Here's what I don't understand. Why promote an RSS feed when you can instead promote a newsletter? Sure, give your visitors the option to subscribe via RSS to stay updated with your content, but instead, try to push the newsletter. My thoughts: A) RSS feed takes away visitors and pageviews from your actual website. B) Newsletter allows you to contact your readers at any time for any reason. C) Newsletter provides the same benefit that bloggers love... social proof. D) Most readers don't like receiving daily emails with your content, no matter how much they love it. They'd rather just come to your site when they're ready. So again, why push an RSS feed on readers when you could instead push a newsletter? Maybe I'm missing something?
Ok, if your so adverse to RSS feeds, why are you using one here "Recent Blog: Quick Update on Trend Spike" Your post is a little bit contradictory, no? KP
The post is intended to start discussion on the topic, and to get everyone's opinions, to see if there's a reason why people are promoting RSS feeds rather than newsletters. Also, you may notice the blog isn't active at the moment (re-launching soon). Why do I currently have an RSS feed icon up there? Because that's the thing to do, according to the "A-listers." After attempting to educate myself on how blog marketing and blogs in general work, I've come to the conclusion that newsletters are a better "social proof." Hence, this post. To affirm/change my decision.
I think you should have a RSS feed but pushing the news letter is a great idea. Just do not send the news letter out to often.