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If you subscribe to The Auction Rebel RSS Feed you may have already noticed the change made to the RSS Feed. It is now a full feed rather than a partial feed. This means that you will now be able to read each post, in it’s entirety, right in your RSS reader rather than having to click through to the blog to read the entire post.
Email Notifications
The old option to receive an email notification whenever new material is added to the blog is no longer available to new subscribers.
In it’s place, readers will now be able to have each new post delivered, it it’s entirety, directly to their email in-box. Similar to RSS subscribers, this means you can read each new post right in your email without having to come to The Auction Rebel to read it.
These emails will actually be a daily digest of any new content on The Auction Rebel. By using the digest format I can refrain from cluttering up your email box on days there might be two or more new posts. The digest will be sent each day between 3:00 and 5:00 pm. On days when there is no new content added there will be no digest sent out.
This change has been made because, with the garage sale and auction sale season coming to a close here, I’m going to be spending a lot more time on the road in search of new inventory. When at home, I’ll be pre-writing several new posts and scheduling them to be posted on the days that I’m gone. The old email notifications were sent out manually and this may not always be possible when I’m traveling. With the new system, the digests are sent automatically each day there is new content.
For those who are already receiving email notifications of new content, you will continue to them. However, I encourage you to subscribe to the full feed (you can use the subscription box at the top of the right-hand menu bar). Once you have done so, and verified you are receiving them, you can unsubscribe from the old notification system simply by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of any old email notification you get.
If you have a question about the new full-feed emails, you can use either the comment section of this post or just send me an email.
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October 27th, 2007 at 4:38 am
hey speaking of changes: whatever happened to the old magazine article/ads biz model? didnt want to get into it or hard to source material? i just re-read your two old postings on this.
i have been selling some mag ads recently, and see there are a ton on sellers doing this. some with sales 1000+ per month - probably pulling in $15k easy - not all profit of course; and not old, old ads, ads from 30’s to 90’s etc. niche stuff.
what are your thoughts on this being the collect’er/selling master? thanks, dean
October 30th, 2007 at 12:00 am
Dean,
I haven’t given up or forgotten it.
My two granddaughters who I’d planned on paying to list them for me both got after school jobs last spring that became pretty much full time over the summer. Now they are back in school and still working so I’ll be the primary ad writer.
I just haven’t had the time this summer to get many listed. I have been buying old individual magazines and bound volumes with either bad or missing covers so have plenty to list. It will probably turn into a winter project. I probably have close to a thousand ads and articles just waiting to be unbound, photographed, and listed.
Sales of what I did get listed have been steady but, due to the low number listed, haven’t amounted to hundreds of dollars a month. I still think it’s a viable model if someone has continuing access to cheap magazines to take them from.
Gary H.