On pitching bloggers for coverage...
When I get a well-meaning but inappropriate email from someone asking for coverage of their product or service, and I'm
feeling nice - I send them to the list of best articles I've found on how to pitch bloggers.
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Oh and by the by I never asked for coverage.
Posted at 4:03PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Brian
3. Fair enough :) no personal offense intended. I don't know if making a blogger laugh and feel the need to apologize is one of the steps advised by those articles, but maybe it should be. I'm totally going to go look closer at your site now.
You'll have to forgive the cyncism - the web is full of pitching emails, it's enough to make a person doubt who his friends are. Can your service help with that? We shall see...
;)
Posted at 4:09PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
4. One of the best resources on that list as far as publicizing your site is on TechCrunch.
http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=215.
Posted at 4:15PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Brian
5. Good call on that. I went back and edited my notes field on that entry indicating that it's especiallly good. Thanks for the heads up on that.
Posted at 4:22PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
7. Hey no problem David, you know what they say - engaging in conversations on blogs is the best way to get people to visit your own site. David's quick and funny comment led me to click through to his site - which looks quite interesting!
Really, though, the social bookmarking space has so much potential. Taking steps like filling in and later editing when appropriate the notes field, tagging other peoples' tags of interest (and subscribing to them) help make so much more out of the medium. These aren't browser favorites we're dealing with anymore - so let's do more with them! For example, if you don't mind my saying so - I think my tagspace titled International (http://del.icio.us/marshallkirkpatrick/international ) is a great source of interesting information. I should subscribe myself to more of other peoples' bookmarks.
Posted at 4:51PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
1. Haha OKAY I apologize!! I didn't mean to break this horrible rule on pitching to bloggers! Oh well I hope this list of articles will help someone escape my retarded fate!
Posted at 4:01PM on Apr 11th 2006 by Brian