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RSS Part 2: Feeds Sharing Value

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When Auto Messages Are OK

I realize that I am always talking about the fact that automating messages and social media is only a good sometimes. However, if there is something in your field of work that you are always searching, and always sharing, then RSS feeds are a fine use of automation technology.

Facebook is something that I, and most of you reading this, probably use every day. Because of my daily visits to facebook, I also visit my business fan page every day. Fan pages are an opportunity for businesses that are just now really beginning to be used effectively. There are apps being built every day to enhance our fun and experiences in connecting and sharing with one another. I used to Google and Bing the keywords: “business facebook fan page” at least once a day just to see what’s new and how people are taking advantage of this opportunity.

Consistency Pays Off

When you are in any industry, no matter what it is, you have to keep an eye on the competition to make sure that you are the best at what you do! ;) In the technology world, that is now constantly meshing with the social world, this is more true than ever. You have to love it and stay on top of it!

Once I figured out how to setup an RSS feed of a search for my keywords, then I used an app called RSS Graffiti RSS Graffiti to feed the posts into my Business 2.0 page on facebook for me and my fans to get the latest news on facebook fan pages for business! Because of sharing and being consistent about sharing, my fans have steadily inclined by about 15 – 20 a week since I set it up. What excites me about this is that these are people who are just genuinely interested about fan pages for business and I have earned new clients, been able to help other businesses, and been able to share what I am doing at my business through this site.

RSS Part 1: Feeds of Search Results

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Need a service that constantly searches Bing or Google Blogs for updated information about any topic and automatically posts the news to your Facebook Fan Page?

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No matter what industry you are in, you MUST keep up with the competition in order to compete. RSS feeds of search results can keep updated information on any topic; anything you’d want to stay up to date with and then share with an RSS address.

How to get RSS Feeds for search results feed according to

Bing:

- run your web or news search at the Bing Search Engine
- add the text ‘&format=rss’ to the url
- copy the full url into your RSS Reader.

How to get RSS Feeds for search results feed according to

Google Blogs:

- run your web or news search at the Google Blogs Search
- find the RSS icon in your browser
- subscribe to your RSS Search.

Stay tuned for next week’s post: RSS Part 2: Feeds Adding Value (a bit of automation for your Social Network)

Skill level: Intermediate. You must already have an RSS reader setup and knowledge of subscribing and retrieving your feeds.

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Reflect and Move On

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The September Work Smart Challenge at Work at Home Parents on facebook was:

Before the holidays creep up on you, your challenge is to FIND ONE TASK (or more if you’d like) that you are responsible for completing and find a way to AUTOMATE that task. Whether it be activating that free automated bill pay service that your bank provides with your checking account, or taking advantage of that appointment application that has always been on your cell phone to keep track of your dentist and hair appointments. Just find something that will make your life easier and do it. Working smart is all about forming good habits.

Discoveries that will hopefully to make life easier:

Researching Voice Recognition Software: Get voice recordings transcribed into text versions.

  • YouMail.com – subscription for the first 10-15 seconds per voicemail is 3.99 per month, and if you want the entirety of each voicemail transcribed it’s 6.99 per month. Each subscription is limited to 50 voicemails
  • Jott.com offers 40 full voicemail transcriptions to text for 9.95 per month.
  • MessageSling vs. YouMail – An older post at lifehacker.com compares these 2.

What is so cool about this exactly? My thoughts are: brainstorming. When I have a great idea for a blog post or even hear about something that I want to research, I either have to write it down on a piece of scrap paper (and then probably lose it), call myself and leave myself a voicemail or text myself and my cellphone is kinda past it’s prime and txting isn’t exactly easy. So inevitably I have to type it out later anyways right? Not if I have a good service that will do the typing and the saving for me! – So, that was my answer to the worksmart challenge. :)

September is over. Happy October!

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