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It’s halfway through the month and I’m blocked by Medium. It is a bit frustrating. I’m not sure about this comment though: “Learn to market yourself and your

It’s halfway through the month and I’m blocked by Medium. It is a bit frustrating. I’m not sure about this comment though: “Learn to market yourself and your content. Quit being lazy waiting for Medium to do it for you.” Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps.

jolmg 7y ago
> Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps. HN, Reddit, and other social networks?
- Untit1ed 7y ago
  I've had blog posts do well on Medium but sink like a stone on those platforms. It's a very different proposition submitting to medium and having it shown to people who are likely to be interested over a day, vs self-submitting to a site like HN or Reddit and watching it sink like a stone because the few people who are likely to be interested aren't looking at that particular moment. Not to mention the fact that if you self-submit anything to those sites people tend to take it as an invitation to eviscerate you.
  - rchaud 7y ago
    Well, for Reddit, I know that tech subreddits really don't like it if you drop a link and don't provide any additional commentary in the post. This is doubly true if the link happens to be "medium.com" because Reddit is already full of downvoted posts submitted by content marketers. If you aren't a regular poster on the sub that you're placing the link on, why would posters bother opening said link? You have to participate in the community as well, and that includes providing content in the form of Reddit posts as well, because Reddit users don't like clicking outbound links with no context.
Deimorz 7y ago
Just find a link to any article you want to read by searching Twitter (or even tweet it yourself). t.co links always bypass the paywall.
bscphil 7y ago
You could buy advertisements... what you're looking for is basically a way to get ads for your product in front of eyeballs, even if you don't call them "ads". I don't see any reason why that ought to be cheap. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the goal of "marketing" is in this context, however.

jolmg 7y ago

> Maybe I am lazy but there really isn’t an easy and inexpensive way to market your blogs or apps. HN, Reddit, and other social networks?

Untit1ed 7y ago
I've had blog posts do well on Medium but sink like a stone on those platforms. It's a very different proposition submitting to medium and having it shown to people who are likely to be interested over a day, vs self-submitting to a site like HN or Reddit and watching it sink like a stone because the few people who are likely to be interested aren't looking at that particular moment. Not to mention the fact that if you self-submit anything to those sites people tend to take it as an invitation to eviscerate you.
- rchaud 7y ago
  Well, for Reddit, I know that tech subreddits really don't like it if you drop a link and don't provide any additional commentary in the post. This is doubly true if the link happens to be "medium.com" because Reddit is already full of downvoted posts submitted by content marketers. If you aren't a regular poster on the sub that you're placing the link on, why would posters bother opening said link? You have to participate in the community as well, and that includes providing content in the form of Reddit posts as well, because Reddit users don't like clicking outbound links with no context.

Deimorz 7y ago

Just find a link to any article you want to read by searching Twitter (or even tweet it yourself). t.co links always bypass the paywall.

bscphil 7y ago

You could buy advertisements... what you're looking for is basically a way to get ads for your product in front of eyeballs, even if you don't call them "ads". I don't see any reason why that ought to be cheap. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the goal of "marketing" is in this context, however.