http://www.barbarafeldman.com/ I am a syndicated newspaper columnist, online publisher, author, mother, wife and Net surfer supreme (not listed in order of importance, of course). My weekly newspaper column "Surfing the Net with Kids" is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. My website gets nearly a million visitors a month, my newsletter list is over 80,000 strong, and my self-published e-books are sold on dozens of sites. Because I am often asked for advice and recommendations that don't have anything to do with "Surfing the Net with Kids" per se, but rather are about my experiences in running that business, I've created this site as a compendium of resources and recommendations. en-us 2004-11-09T16:18:12-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/email_deliverability.html I've been complaining about email deliverability for several years now. But short of abandoning my weekly eight-year-old Surfnetkids newsletter (with +76,000 verified subscribers), I didn't know what to do about... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-11-09T16:18:12-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/dedicated_ip_for_my_newsletters.html For the past week, I have been working on moving my newsletter lists to a new server. I consolidated them over at NetAtlantic because I was interested in having a... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-03-24T10:33:49-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/new_price_for_coregistration.html Surfnetkids.com has been offering co-registration newsletter subscribers for several years. What is co-registration? It is a way to build a newsletter list by offering your publication to new subscribers as... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-03-04T14:13:59-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/parsing_rss_feeds.html Most of my discussion of RSS in this blog (and other publications) has focused on: 1) using RSS as a personal tool to read headlines and newsletters 2) or, on... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-03-04T11:39:45-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/death_of_email_newsletters.html Dear Barbara, I am ready to start my newsletter and was going to sign up with SparkList.com or proautoresponder.com. But I have been reading articles about the "end of... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2004-01-07T11:30:46-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/my_collaborators.html Dear Barbara, The movie is beautifully done. In fact, I'd love to know who your collaborators, if any, were--visual, photographic, musical?--for possible recommendations. (That's if you can make the names... Online Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-11-20T08:15:19-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/will_it_go_viral.html Did you read the entry I posted about Paul Myer's viral case study "The Key to Conversion"? If not, here's the link to download it in PDF format. It inspired... Online Marketing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-11-18T08:40:12-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/the_key_to_conversion.html If you are a newsletter publisher, this free tidbit is for you. Paul Myers, author of "The Amazing List Machine" (an ebook that I turn to time and time again... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-11-07T19:26:54-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/a_challenge_to_myself.html I just posted a "charity donation with trial subscription" challenge to my newsletter audience. I have set a goal of 300 trial subscriptions in 10 days. This is a huge... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-11-06T10:57:34-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/new_premium_newsletter.html It's been about 16 months since I introduced a membership site to my Surfnetkids audience. Instead of moving content from "free to fee" I created new content in a new... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-10-30T10:34:19-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/using_rss_to_deliver_newsletters.html Being an early adopter has some advantages. One of them is buzz. I've seen my RSS newsletter announcement mentioned in half a dozen blogs, including with Dave Winer's post at... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-20T07:55:54-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/surfnetkids_newsletter_in_rss_format.html What are the two biggest problems facing email users today? Ironically they are: #1) spam #2) spam filters Unsolicited email is flooding our in-boxes. Unfortunately while trying to fix the... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-08-13T07:45:24-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/rss_readers.html Although Surfnetkids usually shies away from tech topics, I just finished a Surfnetkids column on free blogging tools/hosts. It won't be posted to my site for two weeks, but when... Syndication Barbara J. Feldman 2003-07-21T13:37:08-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/more_on_white_listing.html Now that Earthlink has added Spam Blocker to their email arsenal, Earthlink subscribers will need to add the "From" email address of newsletters they want to receive to their address... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-05-29T10:30:24-08:00 http://www.barbarafeldman.com/the_joys_of_spam_filters.html Dave Taylor (of Intuitive.com and MicroURL.com) just emailed me that this morning's HTML Surfnetkids newsletter tripped his spam filters with the following message: X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=6.9 required=5.0 X-Spam-Report: 6.90 hits,... Newsletter Publishing Barbara J. Feldman 2003-05-21T12:04:31-08:00