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Why would I subscribe to your e-mail newsletter that is just your RSS feed and here and there some special notes sent to my e-mail inbox when I already subscribe to your RSS feed? Sure, it makes your subscriber count go up, but it doesn’t really help me in any major way.

Sure, it gives you an opportunity to up sell me on some affiliate products or services you might have, but those things rarely help me with my blogging goals.

You should be happy that I subscribe to your RSS feed rather than punish me by making me get the same information two different ways so that you look like you have twice as many subscribers.

The race for subscribers is silly, and if anything, you are making people deal with both information overload and saturation sickness, which then causes them to unsubscribe to all things that they decide are no longer necessary.

Add value to my life, add value to my blogging, and stop trying to spam me with your content over a variety of different services so that you appear to have more unique subscribers than you really have.

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Over on the Perfomancing Hive forum, I have been hearing a few people rumble about the decreasing number and per job rate of blogging and web related positions.

Some very talented and experienced people are starting to find it harder and harder to find new contracts that can pay their bills. Other bloggers are noticing a decline in advertising revenue.

Has anyone else experienced this? To me, this goes against my own thoughts that as businesses tighten their belts, they will want to transition to the web, where a larger audience can be found at a less expensive rate. Or is that not the case?

Has there been a slow down in blogging related jobs? Has their been noticeable drops in advertising revenue? Sure, big companies have cut their blogger pay, but does that mean the whole industry is suffering?

Please, if you have any insights on this, let me know in the comments below.

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There is nothing regular about geeks, but there is a great blog called Regular Geek, and I am very happy to see it join the ranks of the Grand Effect network.

From his entrant post:

Probably the main purpose of this post is to announce that I am now a member of the GrandEffect blog network! Woohoo! Thanks go out to Sarah Perez and the whole gang at GrandEffect. You will now see the GrandEffect bar at the top of the page listing all of the members of the network. I highly recommend reading all of them if you do not already.

With this, the network has ten members, and for now, I think that is more than enough. Sarah has been talking about “what’s next” as we go forward, and it seems like we will be working more on the Grand Effect network site, as well as working with PerformancingAds on bringing our network together in selling network wide ads, once they re-enable the bundled sale feature.

It is definitely an exciting time for the network as we continue to all build our brands, and pass traffic to each other.

Please help me in welcoming Rob, aka Regular Geek to the mix by checking out the site.

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For those of you looking to get an inside look into my thought process and some more details on me and my personality, check out this fairly long interview on Blueverse.

If you enjoy the interview, please give it a Sphinn.

I really enjoy doing interviews, and so if you have some interesting questions you would like to ask me for your blog, please let me know.

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Some of you might remember that I was running a contest a little while back now called the XFEP Reader Interaction Contest. I have since tallied up the entries and was pleased to find that I had a fair number of entrants, though I included all of the people that followed me on twitter during the contest, even if they hadn’t followed me because of the contest, and I included those that commented on this blog, even if they didn’t comment knowing it would be an point towards them in this contest.

Using Random.org and a spread sheet of entrants, I began selecting winners for the prizes. For those of you that don’t remember what was up for grabs, jump on over to the previous post related to the contest, and take a gander.

And now for the winners…

125×125 Banner on Xfep for 3 months
- Ryan Caldwell

One 468×60 banner on Xfep for 3 months
- John Leschinski

BuyWPThemes.com
- Angela Robson

Celebreader.com
- Kneale Mann

DesignRanked.com (and DesignRankd.com if winner wants it)
- Jason Fredin

FabCeleb.com
- Kiltak

HealthNewsFirst.com
- Jeffro

OneBigCanada.com (.biz, .info and .net if winner wants them)
- Jeff Pulver

TheBlogJob.com
- Lisa Sabin-Wilson

UpRanked.com (and UpRankd.com if the winner wants it)
- James Mowery

One Hour Blog Consulting from Me
- Kevin Muldoon

One Copy Each of Problogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
- Katy Castro
- maheshkale
- Tom Leroux

I will be in contact with the winners as soon as possible (though feel free to contact me if you’ve won) to make sure all prizes are distributed. If any prize winner declines their prize, I will select using Random.org once again until we find a suitable winner.

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