Failing that, try linkbait. Ever notice how many of his engagements seems to end with something that HN just loves? Appealing to the people who'll give you link

Failing that, try linkbait. Ever notice how many of his engagements seems to end with something that HN just loves? Appealing to the people who'll give you links is valuable, even if you're not going to be selling anything to those people. You should have some amount of interesting data that you can have someone turn into articles; for a massive flamewar, try plotting costs and ratings per country of both freelancer and client.