Paul Bordenkircher is looking for beta testers for his new software for songwriters at www.songmanagerforbento.com (paul “at” mesassand “dot” com to get involved).
Dave King (www.davekingmusic.com) wants to add RSS to his “normal” (non blog) based website. He tried using Listgarden, but it still had issues with Yahoo!. Any ideas Dave?
Answer:
To diagnose an rss feed check out www.feedvalidator.org and it may help figure out why the feed is not working properly. Back in 2005 I had the same issue. The Musicians Cooler was a newsletter and the website was done in Front Page (and Dreamweaver). So I would update the website, update the newsletter (through Aweber) and then update the RSS feed. It was quite the pain.
Now I use WordPress and when I update the site, it updates the RSS feed (I also use Feedburner to track subscribers). I also am now (in Aweber) to send out emails simply by putting my RSS feed into Aweber. So when I update the website, it creates the podcast and the newsletter at the same time.
If you want to learn how to make your band’s website for next to nothing (wordpress is free), check out www.marketingmusician.com and watch the step by step tutorials that will walk you through the entire process.
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