Moonwatcher reports:
Publishers want to maximize their RSS advertising revenue and users want full-content feeds. Registration-required feeds may help them meet in the middle.
I've had several requests from clients to create a service that would allow feed publishers to require users to register in order to get full-content feeds. Publishers want higher advertising rates and a better idea of their audience, and users want full-content feeds. (The publishers I'm working with plan to also provide summary-only feeds which won't require registration.) I think it will be a win-win for all involved.
I'm building this service now, and am looking for a group of feed publishers to help me beta test it. This will be a commercial service, but beta participants will get a year free. The requirements are simple: you must have an active feed (at least 50 subscribers, please) that you're willing to put behind a registration-required front end and you must have enough time and interest to give me some meaningful feedback during the trial period, which will last three weeks. If you're interested, drop me an email; address below.
—Charlie
Hmm, if I had a reader base of 100, then put up a registration, I bet I'd lose 95 of them. Asking for registration at the very start is so old school. Charlie, you should be thinking about how to ask readers for information inside the blog over time, and providing more and better content based on their reciprocal responses.
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