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The Ultimate Blog Post

Creating your own blog is about as easy as creating your own urine, and you're about as likely to find someone else interested in it. One popular technique for building readership is to send e-mail to more well-trafficked blogs offering to exchange links with them. One popular response from those blogs is to laugh derisively and hit the Delete button.

Another approach for advertising your blog is to mention it as much as possible in conversation; you'd be surprised how many people are fascinated to hear you have a blog and want to know more, especially if you were expecting the number to be greater than zero.

Heh... Wired article for blogging newbies and people who want to be internet celebs for 15 minutes.

Whole article.

blog spam tool discovered?

How You Can Quickly And Easily Drive *Tons* Of Ultra-Responsive Targeted Traffic To Your WebSite - Even If You Are An Online Marketing Newbie!

It must be something like this what these marketing idiots are using spamming their shit to blogs, guestbooks etc. etc.

www.articlepostrobot.com/


Of course this is legal? :(

If you don't understand what I'm talking about, read this.

The top five mistakes entrepreneurs make when they market

by Seth Godin

1. Expecting gratitude in exchange for having done something that was hard. Yes, you built a company, you might even have bootstrapped it. Yes, you've got the machinery and the packaging and the retail space. Yes, you've navigated hiring people and yes, you finally shipped. I couldn't care less. I'm not going to buy your brownie/consulting/services just because you worked hard on it.

2. Spending money as a substitute for doing something great. Spending on marketing an average product isn't working anymore. You're far better off spending money on making your product better. A lot better.

3. Not realizing that it's your company, and your marketing better be as good as everything else. It doesn't matter if you don't like marketing or don't think you're good at it. Figure it out or go home. Sooner or later, you succeed because you were able to spread your ideas. So go to school and figure out how it works.

4. Listening to other people. If they're so smart, why aren't they running your company? Don't take a poll. Don't ask your mother-in-law, that's for sure. Cover your downsides, double your desire to take a risk and then just do it.

5. Failure to measure. All this is worthless if you don't test and measure relentlessly. Do what works. Kill what doesn't. Repeat.

1. True. Same goes with other 'business' too. For example, if you arrange concert, festival, don't except people to show up there because you did lot of hard work for arranging your event. They couldn't care less, only thing they care is the end result.

2. Google. Have you seen googles ads somewhere?

3. I have seen interesting ideas, products to start collecting dust, only because people don't know anything about how to market their excellent ideas and products for the people. So yes, marketing is the key thing in business.

4. This is what I usually do. I listen too much what other people think about my ideas or strategies. Lesson learned.

5. YEP. Stats. There are still many webmasters who don't know what's URL referrer. ;)

more:

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