Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Paul Pajo — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:42:14 GMT

"I get some delight in my policy not to subscribe to any blogs that ask for my vote. That's democracy in action."

wow. good rule. kind of simplifies things for you, doesn't it? and ... britney spears ... she just gets entertaining by the day (especially when she drives ... hehehe)

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

tod hilton — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:31:47 GMT

Britney Spears' blog? Talk about a guilty pleasure...kind of like how I used to watch Party of 5. I try not to talk about it too much though. :-\

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Canadian Headhunter — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:41:46 GMT

Heather, Harry Joiner at Marketing Headhunter asked for readers' votes and he's a nice guy with a good blog. So, your policy, to some extent, is like shooting yourself in the foot.

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

--Lisa — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:09:21 GMT

That's funny... I have a couple of blogs on del.icio.us as "not shared" for the same reason. :)

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:19:01 GMT

Paul, yep. It just turns me off a blog when they ask for votes. Like campaigning for a popularity contest.

tod-really? Party of 5? Ahh, I'm just teasing. It's OK. I won't tell anyone.

Lisa, I'm sure we all have them. The first step is admitting you have a problem ; ) I still have the Britney interview on my Tivo.

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Garrett French — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:16:11 GMT

so uh... how do you usually pick your presidential candidates?

(!!!!vote SEL as most excellent SEM BLOG!!!)
http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2006/06/big-thanks-to-marketingsherpa-readers.html

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:26:02 GMT

There are marketing bloggers running for president?

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Garrett French — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:36:48 GMT

I will be running for president in 2008.

plus: http://www.blogforamerica.com/

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:16:56 GMT

Only one shameless link drop per reader please

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Garrett French — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:52:39 GMT

hey! it's not my fault! your comments hyperlink automatically!

I might be a lowly d-list blogger scrounging in the gutters of my blog - and in marktd (dot) com, poor besmirched-by-me marktd - for a vote of approval from the mainstream of marketing thought, but I would *never* stoop to actually adding an HREF in someone's blog comments.

OK I ADMIT IT I WOULD!!!

I'm HONGRY for that MarketingSherpa award! I want it bad!

If that turns you off, then maybe we should just take a little time off, give each other some space. Maybe in time we can be friends.

In the mean time here's a link to Brittney Spears' personal blog:
(omitted by board of blog decency)

and here's a link to ALL the marketing bloggers who've never once shilled for themselves about anything:
(invalid request - no results found)

(...when I run for president in 2008 I'll see if I can do something about people like me ;)

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:42:25 GMT

haha...good use of the quasi-word "Hongry". If nothing else, you are funny. I just don't like asking for votes..people should vote because they like the blog, not because someone asked them to. Just a personal preference and probably the reason why i don't win anything. That and the fact that I'm not Hongry.

As for taking time off, I hope you are joking! You just visit my blog a few times and then break up with me so heartlessly? You're toxic, I'm slipping under.

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Garrett French — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:50:33 GMT

...sigh.

I know what you're talking about actually.

Snap (one of Bill Gross's companies - he invented the web's *other* major turn off - paid search) had a contest where they incented - with cash - people to give them suggestions on how to market their search engine.

That's right, they paid cash to the submission that got the most votes (plus the site that referred the person with the most votes, which encouraged the contest's viral spread).

I interviewed the guy who did the campaign (link available upon request) and he admited that his favorite idea only got 2 votes, compared to the most popular, which actually got 700 or so.

It troubled me to some extent that the best ideas weren't going to win.

Snap's still going to implement only the *best* ideas of course, as opposed to the ideas that got the most votes, and in the end Snap benefited from all the links and exposure, which is worth far more than the $20k reward.

Just as MarketingSherpa's benfiting from all the "vote for SEL" links on my blog. Think of the brand value alone, to have THEIR name on Search Engine Lowdow... My GOD they should be paying ME!

Ahem... anyways, these are marketing blogs in the running here, and winning will result in fanfare, popularity and industry attention which will likely result in more cash-a-liciousness for the winner.

I don't own the company I blog for, MarketSmart Interactive (link available upon request), and I'm not rewarded financially based on how much my blog is visited.

For me it's definitely a prestige thing. I'm hungry for industry recognition/attention.

There were over 1,100 blogs in the contestant pool... I'm PROUD of the fact that I made it in.

Those bloggers who aren't asking for votes probably don't care that they've been nominated, which is kind of a turn off to *me*.

But if they've got valuable, interesting, unique thoughts on their blog I will look past this distasteful display and subscribe to their feeds anyways ;)

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:17:03 GMT

Hmm, none of which explains why I wasn't nominated. Rats!

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

Harry Joiner — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:48:02 GMT

How on EARTH did I miss this string? This is hilarious! Thanks goodness for late nights and cold beer!

re: Want to add more marketing goodness to your day?

HeatherLeigh — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:01:51 GMT

Harry, now we know how you spend your evenings!

Garrett and I are going to take our show on the road. Right Garrett?