Here’s an important announcement for current and former hyper-responsive club members…
As well as anyone who’s become an avid Google Reader fan…
Here’s the thing…
Stupid Google is retiring Google Reader!
(Which we relied upon heavily in month #2 of the hyper-responsive club to organize internet intelligence on our keyword archery target)
Now, I’m not a religious person, but I like the phrase “When God closes a door he opens a window”…
Meaning that sometimes we become so reliant on our existing solutions we neglect to consider there might be something better right under our nose we’re ignoring…
And also as you might expect, Dr. Glenn’s been scrambling furiously for a few days since the announcement to determine the best alternative!
The solution’s pretty simple…
It allows you to organize by folder, use tags, save for later (equivalent of “starring” in Reader), etc.
And it’ll automatically import and sync up with your existing Reader data, so you won’t have lost a thing.
What you DO want to do regardless is create an XML backup of your subscriptions in Reader and save it someplace safe just in case Feedly goes bananas and decides to close too…
But it seems there’s little chance of that since they’ve publicly announced their desire to support all the abandoned Google Reader users…
And as soon as you log into Feedly you see a “smooth transition from Google Reader” notice.
Plus they’ve put up a blog post specifically to help us poor orphaned Reader users:
http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/
OK, just wanted to keep you in the loop with the new best practices (regardless of whether you’re a current member or not)
All my best,
Dr. G 🙂
PPS – If you’re overwhelmed trying to bump your conversion month after month for a site/company that’s spending more than $10,000/mo in AdWords (or other paid traffic), you really should get a consultation with the Conversion Zoom team.