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Promote Your Website With A Contest

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Darren Rowse, blogger at the famous Problogger, a blog I follow religiously, is celebrating his birthday in style. He managed to gather $54000 worth of prizes through sponsors alone. He’s a prime example of how you can promote your website with a contest.

Over the course of 6 days, Tuesday, October 2nd through Monday, October 8th, […]

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Bookmark Yourself and Don’t Feel Guilty About It

Monday, October 1st, 2007

When you start your first blog, who’s going to find it? It’s silly to assume the “if you build it, they will come” ideology. It’s also silly to assume that producing great content is the only way to get an amazing increase in visitors.
Your personal network of online friends and real life friends might be […]

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Harry Potter Spoiler Creates a Web Marketing Opportunity

Monday, July 16th, 2007

I actually stumbled across this find by mistake. I almost wish I would have thought of it sooner, because I imagine there’s a market there for people buying t-shirts to spoil someone else’s reading experience. I remember back when the previous book came out that people were running around with Snape kills Dumbledore t-shirts.

What […]

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