If you’ve heard about this new blogging software called Firepow around the web, you’re not alone.

Firepow won’t be released until July 1st, but I thought I’d post about it here with all the information I can gather for now so that you can stay well informed up until it’s launch

Basically Firepow is a blogging software but with a whole lot of features stacked on top of it… features that seem to make it a pretty darn interesting little (or big) tool.

It’s based on wordpress, and begins by installing you a nice wp blog - in fact from what I can tell, REALLY nice - you can create your own blog theme from scratch if you want, with the advanced theme generator and then select from a list of all the plugins under the sun, to have installed and activated on your blog with no further action from you.

Then you can go about adding your content - you can set the content to appear on schedules, including into the future, plus you can take advantage of other people’s content via various means not disclosed yet…

It also seems to have a focus on video content but I’m not quite sure in what capacity yet - in any case, more relevant video on your site can only be a good thing - oh and as well - they just released that there will be an “add camtasia video plugin” so you can easily get camtasia vids on your blog without using youtube… which if you’re in internet/software niches is a BIG plus.

Anyway after your blog is looking good with all the cool content, Firepow helps you generate traffic and promote your site around the web. At the moment the only traffic tactic I’ve seen is the promotion of your site through an in house network of blogs owned by Andrew which you can use to obtain links and a few extra visitors.

I’ve also heard mention of social bookmarking and rss feed promotion but we can’t be sure about what capacity these tools take.

Finally Firepow apparently lets you manage your sites too. You can view and make changes to your multiple sites from the one control panel, as well as monitor certain aspects of them.

One plugin we saw released was one that allows a user to split test variations of posts you make to see what generates the most click throughs. That alone makes this product exciting for me.

Even though what we’ve seen so far seems only a fraction of what this software will be capable of.

If you want to check out more of Firepow for yourself, click here.

RSS is a huge part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon that is taking the web by storm. RSS provides an easy way for people who are interested in your content to subscribe to your site and have it delivered to them. Internet experts cannot even agree what the letters “RSS” even stand for. You get nearly equal votes for “Rich Site Summary” and “Really Simple Syndication”. Whatever the letters stand for, RSS is a tool that every blogger should be using to gain publicity for their site, and to keep interested surfers regularly reading your content.

The key to RSS feed internet marketing is to provide content which people will find interesting enough to come back and read regularly. This is the great problem bloggers all over the world face. Getting top quality content written at an economically viable price is by no means easy. There are many writers on freelance sites quoting very low fees, but often the quality of the work, and of the service, is not up to the standard needed by professional businesses. Some of the top businesses can take control of the situation by employing their own writers outright, but that is beyond the scope of most of us when we are starting out.

There are now even ways to incorporate RSS feeds into a type of email marketing replacement strategy. Marketers who have become ever more disillusioned by deliverability problems associated with email marketing can use an RSS feed to deliver their content with far greater reliability. The big problem with this is that a lot of computer users who are completely comfortable and familiar with using email struggle to understand RSS.

As Web 2.0 becomes ever more commonplace, these problems should recede, and RSS will have an ever more important role to play in content distribution. There even exists the possibility of using RSS feeds as part of paid content distribution, using RSS as a replacement for email due to its greater reliability. This is a serious possibility for the future of RSS feed internet marketing.

Amazing new wordpress plugin will allow you to sell content directly from your wordpress blog! This has to be one of the most exciting plugins to hit the internet/blogging scene. So many content publishers have struggled to find alternative ways to monetize their blogs beyond the traditional paid advertising route.

Well, here’s your answer with, “Blog On Steroids” by Vladimir Ghetau - Woohoo, Fat-Free Web 2.0 Marketing Tool! The BOS Plugin v0.1 beta. Make your knowledge worthy is now possible thanks to the Wordpress “Blog On Steroids” plugin!

Lets examine its key features…

- allows charging money for your blog posts and pages
- automatically opts in the paying customers
- builds transactions history
- sends emails automatically based on the transactions status
- time based “post payment” content locking
… and much more!

For obvious reasons selling your own content rather then sending them off to be sold elsewhere is a great way to create your own loyal, following of lifelong customers. That’s what we are here for - building long-term profitable relationships with our blog readers and customers. It doesn’t mean you have to start charging everyone to read every single post on your blog but it does allow you to share something special or of value too, and then ask for a small contribution towards accessing it.

You can access this wicked new plugin from Vlad right here for free!

www.BlogOnSteroids.com

Not to often a day goes by without an email from somebody sprouting the next blogging get rich deal. And, yes don’t get me wrong there is most definitely some very serious money to be earnt from running a niche, newsworthy blog.

However, I’ve noticed the trend in every man and his dog creating splogs has gotten way beyond the point of outta control. Plowing through any search engine you’ll notice your fair share. But enough is enough. Hey, I’m all for auto updating blogs with various content feeds but use your head sam.

Spend some time and seriously think about your foray into getting paid to blog. Don’t just twist your eyeballs into thinking its the path instant fame and fortune. Put your plundering ways into developing a plan to grow a real long term profitable business.

We’d love to hear your comments and honest reports on getting paid to blog!