Many of you were greeted with 13 or more identical emails from me in your inbox over the past 24 hours. For the record, it was NOT intentional, I have not decided to take up a career in spamming and I haven’t lost my mind (although Greg may disagree with the last one.) No, the cause of the errant emails was due to a Blogger upgrade which I didn’t even want to do in the first place — but they made me!

Now, I’m not saying that if I were to have read the fine print from Blogger, they would have explained what would happen during the course of their mandatory upgrade, but truthfully, the blog I upgraded is a retired blog that I only leave up due to the great indexing it has earned through the years and it currently redirects to this blog. It was my first blog, and well… you know what they say about your first!

During the upgrade process, Blogger took each post I had ever made on the blog and changed the original dates to yesterday’s date. Normally that wouldn’t be much of a problem (other than the fact that if it were my actual blog, I wouldn’t be too happy in losing that timeline) but I also had an RSS feed broadcast setup for that old blog which was designed to send an email notification to everyone on my list each time I made a blog post.

So when the date was changed by Blogger, the RSS feed proceeded to start sending out all the posts as if they had been written yesterday. And luckily, I caught it on post 13 and halted the process, otherwise, there were actually over 45 posts and each of you would have received them all!

So here are some lessons to be learned…

1. There is a reason that I have moved all of my blogs to their own hosting as well as written a killer guide to setting up your own WORDPRESS BLOG… Control! It is imperative that you retain control over your own sites or time and money can easily be lost.

2. Always subscribe to your own list! This seems?obvious, but?a lot of people never think of it or do it. In our case, when we?saw the emails start flooding into the address we use for testing our lists, we were able to take swift and immediate action. It was bad enough that 13 emails managed to fire off before we halted the broadcast, but?as I said above, it could have been over 45! Whew, lucky we don’t have a life and sit by the computer 24/7.

3. I am a huge proponent of automating tasks out to increase?efficiency; however, it is important to understand?all the dimensions of what you are automating and remember what processes you have in place when you make major changes. In my case, when I retired the old blog, I should have?;-) gone back and deleted the RSS feed broadcast. The two were interconnected and when one ceased, so?should the other have ended as well.

Even though I lost a few subscribers in the process, perhaps my experience will help others and in the long run most of you were supportive, amused, and even?highly complimentary on the posts that they read. In fact, I got quite a few emails from people who loved what they read and I may resurrect some of the older ones and feature them in the future — but I promise it will be one at a time! LOL

ONE FINAL NOTE: The irony of all of this is that I am such a fan
of WordPress and have even created my own killer
blogging product, but it was BLOGGER who bit me!

So to bite back, I’ve decided to offer Brass Ring
Blogging (a WORDPRESS PRODUCT – ahem!) at the
same deep discount I did for 72 hours before
leaving on the cruise last month.

UNDERSTAND, I have put the SAME cruise page up,
with all the pics and text about the cruise price;
so don’t think it is an error!

I am simply giving you one final opportunity to
purchase Brass Ring Blogging at this insane price!

You can thank Blogger (LOL) for the deal you will
find here:

http://www.90percentattitude.com/discount.htm

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