Comments on: $25000 Prize Just For Creating Buzz

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:06:16 +0000

Yea, the Rich trilogy was excellent, and it made me rething my Internet marketing strategy.

It started to make sense when I implemented offline techniques in my online business. It’s crazy.

I didn’t read his new ebook yet. I’ll do it asap.

Thank you for the reminder… What a Prize.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:11:43 +0000

This is great! Thanks Andy.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:05:31 +0000

Lyndon you are not alone, though I am quite impressed that almost 100 people so far managed it as far as the email signup form.

Unfortunately 80% of those were too distracted to enter an email address or maybe just curious.

I still have to write a full review, but it is made more difficult because they decided for whatever reason to split this one into two halves.
I expect the second half to have a lot more actionable items.

The free material Rich provides is better than most paid, but I made sure I had an ebook in hand before any promotion. I could have started promotion 2 weeks ago but decided to wait, because this is slightly out of my specific niche.

Then again, I do talk about finding ways to consume information that is more efficient, and using meme trackers such as Megite or Techmeme is a good way to find out about the most import news.

Even glancing at Digg once in a while has some value ;)

By: Lyndon Antcliff

Lyndon Antcliff — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 23:53:41 +0000

I was going to download and read it but I got distracted.

James? American in the toilet? Go tell that to someone from Zimbabwe, get a grip lad.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:34:37 +0000

James I do support charities, both in blog posts and donations.

Take this post for example:-

http://andybeard.eu/2007/05/charity.html

However, I write content that my 1300 subscribers signed up to read, and if I made a post about charity every day, I wouldn’t have time to write about what makes my blog unique.

Then no one would subscribe to my blog, and no one would link to it, and that post for the charity link meme wouldn’t have propelled my favorite charity up to the top of Google search results for terms like “polish charity” or “neonatal hearing”

That post didn’t create just one link to them, but 10s or even 100s

I am nowhere near as mercenary on my blog as I could be, I have hardly any advertising.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:27:34 +0000

I provided full details of how I did it in this post
http://andybeard.eu/2007/06/converting-visitors-into-subscribers.html

I also explained the reasons why I am not releasing a plugin, and not all of them are for selfish reasons. :)

By: James

James — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:06:02 +0000

Don’t you think that bloggers should be less mindless and post on more meaningful things such as charity? America is in the toilet and you aren’t do your fair share to make it better. You are a journalist but not an activist. I would hate to be you.

Consider making a difference and make your next blog entry on something worth caring about. How about suggesting to your readers your favorite charity. Maybe some of them will even contribute…

http://duckdown.blogspot.com/

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:31:38 +0000

Thanks, Andy. I’ll be sure to check out the videos.

Btw, is that subscription button at top a plugin? That’s a pretty cool sliding effect, and apparently better than taking someone to another page.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:33:25 +0000

I do relate to that point of view.

I also however relate to how much free quality information some of the top marketers provide that you won’t find on most blogs.

You don’t have to buy to benefit from the material.

Did you see Rich’s last videos or his Manifesto ebooks?

http://andybeard.eu/tag/rich_schefren

You might enjoy the videos I have here that Rich released for free. In recommending people sign up to get Rich’s free material, I am mainly doing it to provide great information.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 05:50:02 +0000

It amazes me that promotions like this one made by the Strategic Profits guys (but many, many others) actually make money. I tend to avoid such advertisements when they’re all one longgggg page of hype. It’s like the late-night infomercials where the actors are desperately trying to have a “casual” conversation, but clearly it’s all rehearsed. I suppose the type of promotion they use is here to stay though. :)