Tell your friends about your site. Who knows, they might read it
Posted on | July 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
Let’s be clear about something. Though it may seem like a nice, convenient way to promote your site (blog or otherwise), the Internet itself is not the only way.
Hey, I should know – I’ve already written a list of tips for promoting your blog offline. Well, it was a bit out there – attending a blogging event isn’t too much of a crazy idea, but getting in the local paper, having your own column as well as getting on the radio? Sure, people do it, but I haven’t quite figured out how.
Then again, I believe there’s a well-known radio station just up the road from where I work. Maybe I’ll take them some pie.
In order to tell your friends about your site, you first need some friends. Oh, and a site.
The next step is to tell them. Done that? Good.
Oh wait, you didn’t put up any content. Do I have to teach you everything?
Mind you, if they’re your real friends, they’ll probably click through to an empty site and enjoy it. Because you made it. Or at least they should do that. Because they’re your friends.
If you don’t get anywhere with your friends, maybe your site sucks. Or you need new friends. There’s a running theme here, I’m sure…
Oh, and finally: Laura, you’re wrong! (Only because you said I’ve never said it. Clearly I forgot to find something you were wrong about. Oh well.)
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July 17th, 2010 @ 1:48 am
Local newspapers will take you on to write a column. The thing is… you write for free or bring in advertising to them from your column in the form of your own ads (for your own business) or a new genre of ads they can get because your column opens up a great new ad niche (but it has to actually work, bring them proof!). So, you can get a column in the paper, you just don’t actually get paid for it.
No doubt some people do get paid to write columns, even in the local paper. But they are few and far between.
PS- I am wrong so seldom it is hard to find something to tell me I am wrong about. Even when I am wrong I still might be right.
August 21st, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
That doesn’t seem right to me. Writers should get paid if they work for a professional publication, certainly if they’re contributing on a regular basis.