What Can An Internet Marketer Learn From My 3 Year Old Kid
Posted on December 18th, 2007 by SOB under UncategorizedMy younger 3 year old is an SOB in the making. I can already tell the way he can out maneuver and outsmart my 7 year old. It is amazing to see how easy he makes it seem.
1. If Mom won’t give you Candy, Raise Hell!: If you have been into running websites for a while, you are probably used to being denied by Ad Networks. But, most of us will just give up, and try to apply for the next ad network that shows up on our list. Have you tried to email them and ask them why they denied you? A while back when I was starting a website, and applied for Valueclick, I got denied. No reason given. Just denied. I did my research and sent an email to every honcho in Valueclick, and raised hell. I had nothing to lose. What were they gonna do? Deny me again? Soon enough got got an email that my site was accepted.
2. You are younger, so you get hand-me-downs: Nothing wrong with hand-me-downs, since my older son was the first child in our family, he got the expensive crap – designer clothes, ridiculously expensive toys etc. Same way, visit high value blogs, and start commenting on them, and get the hand-me-downs ie. you will see that the users from that site will very likely click on your username, linking back to your site, if you have something sensible to comment about.
3. Don’t Step Out Of The House In Your House Clothes: This is all about the first impressions. Don’t start your site half-assed. Make it presentable. That was so web 1.0 when you could get away with an animated gif that said page under construction. You want your visitors coming back, make your site pretty.
4. I Don’t Have The Vocabulary Yet, But I Can Get Still Talk: You don’t have to be a prolific writer to be a successful blogger or webmaster. But please don’t have a site or a blog with just pictures. Flickr has been done already. Mind your “their” and “they’re” since that does not take much mind juice to get it right.
5. My Older Brother’s Friends Are My Friends Too: Network with other bigger, successful bloggers and webmasters. You can never have enough names in your Rolodex. Network. Network. Network. And I don’t mean make friends on Myspace, or spam the hell out of other bloggers. Visit webmaster forums. A nice little “Hey, good luck with your site, love it” and don’t be fake, mean it! Case in point, I happened to catch John Cow in one of the chat rooms, and did just that. I know I have a lot to learn, and I probably learnt something new from John too.
6. Sometimes You Just Have To Beat Up Your Older Brother: If you are a blogger, you know what I am talking about. And if you are like me, you visit tens of different blogs every day. There are some blogs that you visit more than once a day, and follow religiously, and there will be times that you just don’t agree with them. It could be a favorable review of a product or site, that you know is not what it is hyped up to be. Call them on it. You just can’t play nice all the time. Your SOB radar has to be up all the time.
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December 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
It’s refreshing to see a list that is built on new observations. One of my favorite posters over the years… and yes, it hung in my corporate office… was “Everything I need to know, I learned in Kindegarten”.
Children, in their own innocence really do teach us a lot about life, and how to get along… too bad we don’t return the favor as well.
December 22nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
I Stumbled this excellent list. I liked number 3 “Don’t Step Out Of The House In Your House Clothes”. I am enjoying reading your blog keep up the good work.