Running a blog to support your MicroISV
Blogging is an essential marketing tool when creating something from scratch and Yaro Starak has some excellent tips on the matter. Linking to other successful blogs is a sure way to get notice, Ian Landsman kindly mentioned me on his blog to this effect :-
”Here’s another that looks promising, we’ll see.
PS. Both Tony and Starr (the last one I posted about) hit the secret to getting noticed. Link to me or HelpSpot. I (as most bloggers) watch my referrers, so link and you’ll get linked back. And if you have no readers yet make sure to click the link yourself!”
When I first started this blog I didn’t know if it would be worth it but after only a week I have seen a traffic spike. I have been busy planning how to structure it best and my intentions are to try to post every two to three days. I could post a whole lot more however I need the time to actually build my product.
I think it’s essential to treat your blog as your own personal media outlet and 37signals are the masters of this. They have created a following one can only dream of and there take on web apps and how they should be designed is something I hope to emulate to some degree of success.
I will structure my blog into 5 main categories – building a web app, business, blogging, productivity, and nutrition. The categories should now be visible to the right.
To show how effective this can be I have included a picture from google analytics. It shows how I went from a flat line of no visitors to a small spike when linking to Ians blogg, and then a hugh spike when people clicked through to me from his posting about this site. Simple huh?
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Hello, very nice site, keep up good job!
Admin good, very good.
Comment by Stasigr — October 29, 2007 #