Getting Me to Talk About You!
Haaa… that’s a joke. Well, kinda.
The first couple of times someone contacted me to ask me to write about them, I about laughed my lil behind off. Me? Write about you? Who am I?
They told me that a friend told them how much traffic they got the day I wrote about them or added them to my blog roll. Not what I would call a lot of traffic. But getting a hundred to a thousand new visitors to your site in a day/week can help kickstart some thangs.
That begs the question, how do you get me (or a real high-profile blogger like Steve Rubel) to blog about you?
Some people like email. I get too much mail, from too many accounts for too many sites, all forwarded to my Gmail. I have a million labels and a thousand filters. I still miss things. Willie Crawford is right, I need to open my ticketing system on this site, just so I can be able to track things.
Yet, for the moment, since there’s no other way to contact me besides commenting on the blog, folks do that – they email me because there’s no other way to reach me.
That is not now, nor ever will be, the way to get me to comment on your site in my blog.
So how do you get me to write about you?
- Leave a comment and participate in the site for a while. Let me know that you listen. No need for any butt kissing. Just become someone I know – and hopefully like.
- Send me a trackback. I like these almost more than comments because it makes me leave my site. I’m a vain creature and I’ll have to see what you wrote about what I wrote about. Please, no love songs or offers to serenade me unless you’re wealthy (not rich, rich I can do on my own.) and over the age of 28.
- Leave me a comment asking me if we can instant message or if you can call me. My phone schedule is tight but I make a point of only booking one week into the future on Thursdays and Fridays.
- When my ticketing system opens up (likely this week) send me a message there.
- Send me money. $100 per paragraph. $500 to write an entire article and get it mass produced. Through PayPal the address is tinu@freetraffictip.com. I’m so not kidding.
Okay, yes I am.
Unless you’re serious. But please believe that I’m going to say whatever I want about you no matter how much you pay me. So have a good product as I will pull no punches. No, not even for a million dollars.
Now a Billion Dollars ….
Sike. But I’ll listen and nod politely.
Now, those are my guidelines. Another blogger’s may be different.
Pretty soon I’ll have a SkypeOut number on the site and encourage folks to call me during certain hours and close down the free member area that no one uses any more. (I’ll probably replace it with an article directory, ifyou’re worried about whether I’ll still post articles here.)
Until then, this is my stance and I’m sticking to it.
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Resources: How Do You Pitch A Blogger | How Not to Pitch a Blogger
