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You can extend the reach of your Merchant Circle marketingJohn L. Dilbeck's Ramblings Whatever strange and wonderful ideas tickle this big brain of mine. Being a voracious reader, I go through lots of news and stories. When I find one of interest that I think will benefit you, I write about it here. Your feedback is always welcome. News Archives You can extend the reach of your Merchant Circle marketing What you may, or may not, already know is that every time you blog, create a coupon, upload a photo, or post a newsletter, these things are added to a newsfeed for you, automatically. At the top-right of your listing, you'll see "Subscribe to blog and coupon feed" followed by an orange chicklet that says "RSS/XML." This is a standard news feed that can be syndicated on many services and can be read by anyone using a news feed aggregator or a news reader. Even without sending emails you are broadcasting to the world - potentially. I'll write a post later to explain more about making use of this. For now, suffice it to say that you can blog in one place and have it automatically republished in multiple places. This makes it very powerful for getting your news out. If you don't know anything about RSS, let me suggest that you read What is RSS?. One place you may want to syndicate your feed is at Squidoo.com. To do this, you'll need to be a member. Are you an expert on something? Build your own Squidoo lens and tell the world. It's free, and you may even earn some money from it. Of course, you're an expert on your business, so join Squidoo and create a lens about it. It's worth the effort to learn how to build free lenses on Squidoo, and it's a perfect place to syndicate your Merchant Circle news feed. For example, I've created a Squidoo lens about Merchant Circle and I've syndicated (re-published) my news feed and Merchant Circle's news feed on that lens. Also, as part of that lens, I've created a list where you can add a link to the Merchant Center listing for your business. I will be syndicating that list on some of my other websites, so you'll get free advertising just by adding your link to the list. If you don't understand, just comment on this topic and I'll see what I can do to help you. Act on your dream! JD Powered by Coranto News Archives
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