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Kill your blog: Why side projects are the future of marketing

30 点作者 sdsantos超过 9 年前

13 条评论

plehoux超过 9 年前
We launched our product (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missiveapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missiveapp.com</a>) in closed beta last Autumn, and I can assess from our experiments that the only thing we did that gather a lot of attention was our &quot;A Brief History of Email Apps&quot; (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;email-apps-timeline.missiveapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;email-apps-timeline.missiveapp.com&#x2F;</a>), a timeline of all the email clients released since the &#x27;90, a side project.<p>All our blog posts failed to gather eyeballs. We tried on our blog (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missiveapp.com&#x2F;blog" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;missiveapp.com&#x2F;blog</a>) and on Medium (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@plehoux" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;@plehoux</a>).<p>We are probably not good at writing compelling and viral content. It&#x27;s hard. It&#x27;s a unique and rare talent. You need to write about subjects that matter to people, subjects of our time.<p>To me, 37 signals (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.signalvnoise.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.signalvnoise.com</a>) are the master of this game.<p>I don&#x27;t think blog post are dead; it&#x27;s just harder to get noticed. But isn&#x27;t it the same for everything else.<p>I enjoyed the blog post and did, in fact, learned about the crew product. :)
bchjam超过 9 年前
marketing&#x27;s incessant notion that lying to people is like a science of making money just makes me sad. make a good product, be honest about it, change plans if noone cares, what&#x27;s so bad about that?
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6stringmerc超过 9 年前
&gt;<i>Articles that provided practical utility—actionable advice and tips—were shared far more than those that were merely interesting or even surprising.</i><p>Reading this gave me a bit of a chuckle, because this is exactly how bad advice spreads too. Like bonsai kitten. At the end of the article, all I could think about was how the post was basically talking about &quot;diversification&quot; without ever using the term outright, even though it&#x27;s a more suitable concept to employ than &quot;side projects&quot; IMO.
obilgic超过 9 年前
And thats still a blog post.
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shockzzz超过 9 年前
&gt; You need marketing that isn’t perceived as marketing.
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overcast超过 9 年前
Side projects are always a good thing. Whatever your idea is, with time permitting, get it out there. Regardless of how silly it may be seen from others, it gets exposure, and gets you experience. Every side project I work on, builds on some core technology I learned from the last project. I&#x27;ve got a million ideas, and when I&#x27;m done with one, I move onto the next. Keep your mind busy!
userium超过 9 年前
I agree that side projects are the future of marketing, and many companies are already doing this. A while ago I made a list of companies that have created inspiring side projects for marketing purposes: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stayintech.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;sideprojects" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stayintech.com&#x2F;info&#x2F;sideprojects</a>
lifeisstillgood超过 9 年前
I suspect this has some truth to it. I think we are seeing huge backlash against &quot;ads&quot; as in dumb content constantly pushed out.<p>In this searchable world, ads don&#x27;t need to be pushed continuously because if the ad suits me, I will find it.<p>As such less effort needs to go into the &quot;ad delivery network&quot; and more into the quality and specificity of the ad itself<p>Which used to be a blog post, but now seems to be a useful online tool or project.<p>The ads get more expensive and more targeted, the distribution channel slims down to search.<p>This comment seems at home on the Brendan Eich thread next door too.
Sir_Substance超过 9 年前
Heh, marketing has gone so far around the curve of wasting peoples time they&#x27;re approaching actually doing useful things for society from the other side.
perlgeek超过 9 年前
The key is to provide value to the reader or consumer.<p>Blog posts can be valuable (by educating or entertaining, for example), but writing valuable blog posts is a lot of effort.<p>Side projects can be valuable, but creating valuable side projects is effort.<p>So I guess it depends on what you&#x27;re good at. A side project is usually something you&#x27;re passionate about, so it&#x27;s a good starting point. But if you like writing, blogging is still the way to go.
yaworsk超过 9 年前
After reading this, seems like this should titled &quot;how to veil your advertising in blog posts...&quot; Not to sound overly cynical but this seems to be again about pushing the new products created through content advertising.<p>That said, I did click on one and while howmuchtomakeanapp seemed cool, the site was so slow that i closed it after two questions.
waylandsmithers超过 9 年前
Well, I guess this is a counterpoint to both: I&#x27;ve now read this blog, and I&#x27;ve used unsplash for free photos, but I have no idea what crew is or does.
kelukelugames超过 9 年前
Hey dang, can we please kill the first part of the title?
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