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The Search for a new RSS Feed app
The Search for a new RSS Feed app
Working in a digital world involves a pretty much continuous adjustment to new updates and innovations. We get it that modifications and improvements need to be made (anyone enjoying the new Facebook layout?) but sometimes developers’ improvements can cause users a lot of extra work trying to figure out how to handle the updates. This is what happened to us recently, when our favourite social media scheduling tool, Buffer, decided to drop its RSS feed function!
Luckily there are other RSS feed apps out there. But where to start?
Buffer suggested replacement idea
Now that Buffer have removed the RSS feed functionality, we are on the hunt for a new social media feed app. Firstly, Buffer suggest the following – Automating RSS feeds using Feedly and Zapier. From looking at this, you would need to subscribe to Feedly’s pro plan and then use this in conjunction with Zapier, a web automation tool. Sound too complicated? Then check out some free ideas as below.
RSS Feed apps
Many of you may have heard of Feedly but possibly not used it before. There are paid pro plans starting from £6 a month but you can try out a free account first. The free plan is easy to log into – just use your Google account and you can follow up to 100 sources and organise them into 3 feeds.
We’ve also signed up to Feeder, again the basic version is free. It’s ok but it doesn’t appear as if you will get images included with the RSS feed.
Zapier have researched the best RSS feed reader apps so you can check out more suggestions. We’ve been looking at Flowreader – this seems to be a great option if you want to read and share generic content but we struggled to find valid feeds for our clients. Worth checking out though.
Changing Social Media strategies
The withdrawal of the RSS feed function is ultimately a push to improve the content across all social media platforms and it will probably have the desired effect.
Having reviewed the Twitter accounts that we use RSS feeds for we have decided that these extra industry news posts don’t ultimately add as much value as our own generated content. With this in mind we have altered our strategy and restructured our content scheduling, however, for some of our clients having all trusted sources and their RSS feeds in one place is a huge benefit especially when time and budget are limited.
We’d love to hear from you as to whether you use RSS feeds as part of your social media posting strategy, and your favourite RSS feed apps.
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Continuous Learning
Continuous Learning
Sometimes as a small business owner we find ourselves on a constant hamster wheel doing our best to get everything done as we often don’t have lots of colleagues to pitch in or delegate to, although you can always hire a VA to help on that point!
But it’s really important to keep learning, particularly now as the digital world moves on from one minute to the next and is not stopping for you to catch up. So, it’s really important to make learning part of your business plan and strategy, with this in mind we decided to put together some helpful tips to help you keep on improving your skills.
Set aside some time every week
This is a brilliant way to make sure you keep on improving your skills as a business owner. We set aside a morning every week that is just for research and learning. Giving yourself a few hours to either learn a skill your missing or indeed just time to think! Having the time to do some lateral thinking around your business, to look around at what competitors are doing, time to just muse on ideas will have huge benefits for yourself and your business.
Write a blog for your business website
A blog can prove to be a of great benefit to your business. Not only does it give you the drive to keep thinking and working on ideas it will also drive traffic to your website. Research areas of your business that you need to freshen up your skills on and use keywords that relate to your business and that will resonate with potential customers. We use our blog to document all our research so it can be a powerful tool if you need to look back and to remember important procedures or processes.
Training courses
Since the crazy events that have unfurled this year it’s meant that many training courses have moved online. This actually makes life a lot easier as without the travelling you won’t need to take so much time out of your day, so why not do a google search for relevant training courses & improve your skill set. There are also training modules available with many of the social media platforms such as Facebook for Business or Think with Google.
Share your learning
If you’ve spent the time learning a new skill then share it, sharing your knowledge is powerful content so use it to your advantage and& use it to boost your or your business’ profile and helps it stay relevant. Share it on your social media and maybe even run training event and pay it forward!
Just remember that all the knowledge you can acquire feeds back into your business, strengthening & building your place in your chosen industry.
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