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Submit to HN, reddit, digg, etc. Contact relevant and/or popular blogs/news outlets with non-form emails as to how and why they should write about your site. G

by kbrower 17y ago

Submit to HN, reddit, digg, etc. Contact relevant and/or popular blogs/news outlets with non-form emails as to how and why they should write about your site. Getting on Lifehacker was a huge boost for one of my side projects. If you can afford it buy the keywords on google, yahoo, msn that are extremely relevant. Post to various web application directories(this was probably the least effective use of time)

zeedotme 17y ago
sounds about perfect..the only thing i'd add is actually try and contact individual bloggers wherever possible. In an ideal world, you have already established some form of relationship with a few of them.
- kineticac 17y ago
  Does techcrunch, mashable, etc. actually write about it? I'm thinking it's hard to get them to actually visit a site unless you have some credibility.
  - byrneseyeview 17y ago
    This is like the old joke about how convenient it is that all the nice cities in Europe are right by rivers -- being written up by TC or Mashable gives a site instant credibility, but as far as I know they won't turn someone down because they'd be the first to break a story about a cool new site.
    - kineticac 17y ago
      So would a site get a better chance by doing a private invite beta, only giving TechCrunch exclusive invite codes? It'll probably get all traffic looking for invites to TechCrunch, so I could see that as being extremely appealing.
- kineticac 17y ago
  It also sounds like the first step is to make connections and get some relationships going. It's like highschool all over again ;)
  - grinich 17y ago
    what do you think the MBA is for?
    - kineticac 17y ago
      couldn't you argue that you can get as many connections without going for an MBA? Or is that one of your suggestions?
pierrefar 17y ago
Don't forget Twitter and Friendfeed. There are lots of very nice and approachable influencers on there too. Surely you must have had a conversation with one or more of them at some point. By the way, as with all kinds of approaches like this: Do NOT abuse the relationship. Be kind, thankful, and don't pressure/harrass them.

by kbrower 17y ago

zeedotme 17y ago

sounds about perfect..the only thing i'd add is actually try and contact individual bloggers wherever possible. In an ideal world, you have already established some form of relationship with a few of them.

kineticac 17y ago
Does techcrunch, mashable, etc. actually write about it? I'm thinking it's hard to get them to actually visit a site unless you have some credibility.
- byrneseyeview 17y ago
  This is like the old joke about how convenient it is that all the nice cities in Europe are right by rivers -- being written up by TC or Mashable gives a site instant credibility, but as far as I know they won't turn someone down because they'd be the first to break a story about a cool new site.
  - kineticac 17y ago
    So would a site get a better chance by doing a private invite beta, only giving TechCrunch exclusive invite codes? It'll probably get all traffic looking for invites to TechCrunch, so I could see that as being extremely appealing.
kineticac 17y ago
It also sounds like the first step is to make connections and get some relationships going. It's like highschool all over again ;)
- grinich 17y ago
  what do you think the MBA is for?
  - kineticac 17y ago
    couldn't you argue that you can get as many connections without going for an MBA? Or is that one of your suggestions?

pierrefar 17y ago

Don't forget Twitter and Friendfeed. There are lots of very nice and approachable influencers on there too. Surely you must have had a conversation with one or more of them at some point. By the way, as with all kinds of approaches like this: Do NOT abuse the relationship. Be kind, thankful, and don't pressure/harrass them.