An RSS feed is a great marketing tool for blogs and interactive websites. Regular readers can add your RSS feed to their own personal feed reader, which will automatically update them on any new posts you add to your website.

What is a feed reader, you may ask? Basically you create your own page within a website, such as netvibes, and then collect the RSS feeds from your favourite websites or blogs and add them to this page. I don’t know how this works in technical detail, but all you need to know is that it is easy to do.

For example, if you wanted to add this blog as a feed, you would click on the “Add content” button in netvibes.com and enter this url: http://www.how-to-be-a-fine-artist.com and from then on you will know whenever I add something new. Or you could click on the icon that says “RSS” (top right on this page) and choose which feed reader you want to add it to.

You can also add your email accounts and Facebook to your feed reader and know straight away when someone has sent you a message. Couldn’t be easier. Go on give it a try…