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Posted By: Mel. White In Response To: I've eaten at least four boxes of cookies.... (MaaMaw)
Thursday, 23 June 2005, at 1:27 p.m.
Here's a boatload of the marketers with Yahoogroups. And they're all selling stuff, including "seminars"
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=internet+marketing&submit=Search
> By asking someone to comment, you mean that person would be one of the
> people on the list of posters? Or is there some kind of
> "comment" function I'm not aware of??
Yup.
> Opinion please:
> To someone who is email-shy, do you think this is better than a blog? (As
> you know, I early love to hear myself talk, but I had a helluva time with
> my blogs; I think it's the feeling that I'm talking to myself, I'm not
> sure, because I know big blogs get bzillions of comments -- it just all
> felt very negative and useless to me.)
Frankly what makes it a better idea is that you cannot run a website AND a household AND go blogging on a regular enough schedule to bring in a regular readership. Not unless you've got more time in the day than I have!
This works if you run it as a Joint Ventureship type of operation. Others have a stake in the content (you can distribute it as an RSS newsfeed link here on the site so that folks could even read current content (but not search archives till they join)) and with the burden distributed among 10 people (think: newspaper -- you're the editor) you have more consistant output and more readership and the others get an "ad" simply for the effort of posting content.
Although it's tempting to open it up to everyone to discuss, unfortunately spammer abuse on Yahoo is rife on unmoderated, open lists. Let folks discuss the issues and content here... and post the original articles and archive them there.
There's lots of good advice here that really needs to be compiled somewhere. This is a way to do it and make a win(your editorship)-win(their name in front of a target audience)-win(audience-pulling articles and archive and not in-your-face-pushy-ads) for everyone.
(I hope I'm clear. I have a sad tendency to go on Trips To Planet Mel sometimes.)
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