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Great place to set up your feeds for better Subscription rate

I found this list some where online and have found it great to have so I thought I would shre it with everyone else..Using this will help you to Increase your RSS feed Subscribers in a very dramatic way.PageRank of those site are also mentioned in front of them respectively.So enjoy the list and go on submitting your RSS feed to these sites.

  1. http://www.bloglines.com 9
  2. www.moreover.com 8
  3. http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp 8
  4. http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/ 8
  5. http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx 8
  6. http://www.syndic8.com/ 8
  7. http://www.technorati.com/ 8
  8. http://rss.msn.com/ 8
  9. http://www.whoi.edu/mywhoi/help.go 8
  10. www.rss-verzeichnis.de/anmelden.php 7
  11. http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html 7
  12. http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp 7
  13. http://www.blogflux.com/add.php 7
  14. http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html 7
  15. http://boingboing.net/suggest.html 7
  16. http://www.romow.com/submit.php 7
  17. http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog 7
  18. http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php 7
  19. http://www.topix.net/member/register 7
  20. http://www.rocketnews.com/ 7
  21. http://www.rss-specifications.com/ 7
  22. http://www.2rss.com/ 7
  23. http://www.rss-faq.com/ 7
  24. http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/…oo_for_rss.php 7
  25. www.newsmob.com/ 6
  26. www.rssbus.com 6
  27. http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php 6
  28. http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php 6
  29. http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=We…s&l_op=AddLink 6
  30. http://www.blog-directory.org/ 6
  31. http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/ 6
  32. http://www.bloggapedia.com/ 6
  33. http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi 6
  34. http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm 6
  35. http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi 6
  36. http://www.blogs-collection.com 6
  37. http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx 6
  38. http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html 6
  39. http://www.diarist.net/ 6
  40. http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat= 6
  41. http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php 6
  42. http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html 6
  43. http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php 6
  44. http://www.pressradar.com/suggest 6
  45. http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog…_company_blogs 6
  46. http://www.tailrank.com/import 6
  47. http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php 6
  48. http://www.genecast.com/ 6
  49. http://rssfeedreader.com/ 6
  50. http://www.anse.de/ 6
  51. http://www.jordomedia.com/ 6
  52. http://www.millionrss.com/ 6
  53. http://www.plazoo.com/ 6
  54. http://www.search4rss.com/ 6
  55. http://www.weblogalot.com/ 6
  56. http://www.chordata.info/ 6
  57. http://www.listible.com/list/top-rss…bmission-sites 6
  58. http://www.chefsblogs.com/directory/…ogs/RSS_Feeds/ 6
  59. http://www.submitrssfeed.com/ 6
  60. www.newsisfree.com 5
  61. www.feedminer.com/addfeed.aspx 5
  62. www.memigo.com/feed 5
  63. www.rssmad.com/ 5
  64. rss-portal.com/ 5
  65. www.devasp.com/search/AddRSS.asp 5
  66. www.nfeeds.com/submit.php 5
  67. www.feeds.com.br 5
  68. http://www.5starblogs.com/ 5
  69. http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php 5
  70. http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php 5
  71. http://www.blogdir.co.uk/ 5
  72. http://www.bloggernow.com 5
  73. http://blogintro.com/submit/ 5
  74. http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html 5
  75. http://www.blogscholar.com/ 5
  76. http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php 5
  77. http://www.gobignetwork.com/entrepreneur-blogs/ 5
  78. http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.asp…&TopicID=20004 5
  79. http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/ 5
  80. http://scienceport.org/index.php 5
  81. http://www.thevital.net/ 5
  82. http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wils…p?op=newsubmit 5
  83. http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/ 5
  84. http://www.rsshugger.com/ 5
  85. http://reader.rocketinfo.com/ 5
  86. http://www.feedsfarm.com/ 5
  87. http://www.postami.com/ 5
  88. http://www.feedage.com/ 5
  89. http://www.rssdirectorysubmission.com/ 5
  90. http://www.feed24.com/ 5
  91. http://www.feedcat.net/ 5
  92. http://www.feednuts.com/ 5
  93. http://www.feeds2read.net/ 5
  94. http://www.feeds4all.nl/ 5
  95. http://www.rssfeeds.com/ 5
  96. http://www.rssmicro.com/ 5
  97. http://www.purerss.com/ 5
  98. http://www.rss-software.com/rss-blogs.htm 5
  99. http://www.fulldisclosure.org/Mesoth…sbestos_lawyer 5
  100. http://www.nevon.net/nevon/rss/index.html 5
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Recession Marketing Today

Recession got the phones on hold?

Have you heard the sound of silence yet? You know, phones idle in their cradles. The economy is slow and lagging more than ever. We’ve felt it in every state of the union as well as around the world now. So, what’s the next step? Cut advertising, travel, training, marketing? Cut purchasing? The anxiety level is starting to hit the roof, and your sales force is seeing a dramatic cut in their checks. They get the “salesman Blues”, or just quit. What can you do about the “it’s not getting better” attitude.

Can You Could Reach Your Market Without Incurring hardly any Cost?

How often do you work with your referral base? The only investment is your time. If you are referred to a customer, 70% of the job is done for you. They already know about you and your services, so are pre-sold on the idea. When this occurs, profits and sales go up. Follow these 10 “Working” strategies and watch your business boom.

10 “Working Strategies” to Attracting New Business in a down Economy

1. Look at who you are as a Business. Do you think you can broaden your approach to your services or products? If you have to re-invent yourself in order to penetrate DO IT!

2. Don’t stop and smell the flowers! The saying “only the quick survive.” is a saying for a reason. Learn how to make quick sounds decisions for your business and go for it. Slow down now and it’s over!

3. Repeat business from current customers is essential to your survival. Your current client base needs to be catered to, and fawned over. Customer service is everything.

4. Time management for the sales force. What needs to be chased first, or completed before the little things need to be done? Remember “what’s closest to cash”

5. Become an Authority. People will refer you if it is known that YOU are the “go to company” in your field.

6. NETWORK NETWORK NETWORK!! ’nuff said

7. Bundle your services to increase value. NEVER CUT YOUR PRICES as this diminishes the perceived value on your product of services.

8. Treat your referrals as the gold they are. your customer has gone out of their way to hand one of THEIR customers to you. This means their reputation is on the line as well as yours. Treat them right and you will find that more will be on their way.

9. Contact everyone. You may think that the one call you got this week is not important because they were looking for the least profitable item on your list, but who is to say that their next purchase is not the biggest ticket item? Communicate with thank you cards, or just an e-mail. It goes a long way.

10. Don’t forget to thank the ones that sent you the business. Believe it or not, most people just say thanks for sending them to us, and forget to send a nice gift. Proportionate of course, but send one anyways.

11. BONUS TIP! THANK YOUR VENDORS AS WELL. They make things happen at your office and for your customers. Thanking them can make your life much easier in the long run.

Follow these tips and you will get more referrals. You will attract new business. You will get more clients. You will accelerate your sales. And, you will achieve higher results without increasing your cost of sales. In fact, there’s a great chance that you will decrease your costs!

Shannon Smith: Senior Account Executive With JH Studios, a web site marketing, Graphic Design, Promotional products company, has been in Sales and Marketing and Graphic Design for 20 Years. His e-book “Networking Techno Style” is due to be released in January of 2009. Contact us for pre-release sales on our blog at marketing.jhstudios.com

Good ol days of graphic design

Who remembers Archie?  Gopher? Veronica?  Any one? Any one? Bueller? Bueller?

Seriously now, does any remember these programs?  They’re from the good ol days of the early internet before the monster search engines we now have.  They were also from a time when graphic artist were barely getting a glimmer of an idea of what digital art was all about.  We have come so far haven’t we?  In those days I had an amiga, and a 386 machine, and the mac was still black and white.  Lightwave was called turbosilver, and most designers were still using traditional mediums to produce ad work.  Everything was labor intensive.

With the advent of faster processors, and better graphics cards and cheap memory things changed for us designers. We were able to get away from the traditional, and really begin to explore our imaginations in the virtual world.

Then came the internet, and website design. WHOO BOY! Now we could let the world see our work out there all around the world in no time flat, right?  Not really, we had to learn to program in strange languages like html, or have our geeky friend do it for us.

Now with the programs out there like Dreamweaver, Silverlight and the like, we can really let our imaginations go online for the first time with out being tied to the real world.  I can’t wait to see what we can do in the next 15 years.  If the development over the last 15 is any indication this should be fun.

Staying in your customers face

Are you invisible to your customers?

I knew a man, Stan that did his advertising by just going door to door and saying “hello” and leaving his number in the hands of his potential client. Stan was very successful at this type of work. He made a good living for him and his family, putting his kids though college and set up a meager retirement for him and his wife. Stan started working on his business at the age of 18 and retired at 67. (49 years if you are doing the math.) This was longer than he was married! Knowing he was happy with his lot in life I asked him if he would do anything different.

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Putting Lipstick on a web designer

You wouldn’t believe the things they are putting lipstick on now a days! Next thing you know, they are going to tell us we can’t wear our pocket protectors…

Although the world we live in is becoming smaller and small by the day, as internet speeds go up. The idea that one entity (The News Media) has the power to radically shift our focus away from important issues, to something as absurd as the Lipstick comments, just proves how enthralled with the visual representation of …. anything, we are as a whole.

Lets get back to what is important….mainly issues that matter, like our companies, and our families and their well being. We can get though all of this hubbub and get back to life as we know it, just have faith in your own hard work.