Comments on: Over-Used Marketing Tactics May Still Work Like a Charm

By: CAP Digisoft Solutions Inc.

CAP Digisoft Solutions Inc. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:04:03 +0000

I use Twitter and Lists techniques for my website and for my client websites as well.

But with regard to Quizzes i am not sure will it attract to the people. Can u give me some advice on how to use this tactics in the next or upcoming posts in brief. So that this could be useful to most.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:43:33 +0000

@Ann,

I agree with you 110%

All marketing ideas have been tried in one way or another at some point. I don’t think reinventing the wheel is always necessary. I think making a wheel that already works a better wheel is the way to go.

I’m not saying there is anything wrong with being innovative but improving on tried and true methods should be the first plan of action I think.

By: David

David — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:36:27 +0000

Personally I find it amazing how some tactics just never stop working. It seems literally everyone is using them and everyone says they are sick and tired of them – but one day you still decide to also try them and find they work like a charm.

:-)

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:10:45 +0000

@Hyder, there is a difference between copying an idea nad copying the content itself. Let me explain this using an example:

say you have a website about LOST show and want to promote it. You are smart and want to see how other (fan) sites dedicated to other TV shows are promoted. So you go to the site about “Prison Break” show and find that they are offering their visitors to take a quiz and embed its results to their pages. The quiz is called “Which ‘Prison Break’ character are you?”. What a smart idea, you think. So you go back to your site and create your own quiz with your own questions and answers and images. You name it “Which LOST character are you?” Have you copied an idea? – Yes. Is this idea new? – No, chances are your fellow webmaster from “prison Break” site has copied it from someone else. Have you copied content? – No! You put your time and effort in the completely new and unique content your audience will appreciate.

Do you think this is unethical? I’d say this is a good way to search for inspiration: implement someone other’s ideas to your topic, develop ideas, make them better.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:33:09 +0000

You bring up a great point. I hear people in certain circles talking smack about twitter is spam, this and that but content often goes viral for me on Twitter. So I'll continue to simply tune out the naysayers. ;-) @the_gman

By: John Moore

John Moore — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:02:02 +0000

Great posts, especially love your comments on blogging about Twitter. I’ve written a couple of posts on Twitter and it never fails, they quickly become the most read posts on my site. For example, I wrote this “unofficial roadmap for Twitter”:

http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/the-unofficial-twitter-roadmap-for-a-social-marketing-delivery-platform-don%e2%80%99t-pass-it-on/

and it was immediately dugg.

I wrote this semi-joke post on April 2nd:

http://johnfmoore.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/stop-talking-about-twitter-ive-heard-enough/

and it quickly resulted in hate mail for being closed minded (it was a joke). Love it or hate it, people cannot seem to read enough about it.

John
http://twitter.com/JohnFMoore

By: Hyder

Hyder — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:34:08 +0000

Hey Ann, “! You can safely copy someone’s idea, republish it on your site, beautify it a bit by rich media and it will spread! ” don’t you think you are spreading which is unethical to copy someone’s idea.

There are lots of chances that they may know about their own post and thrased us.

If we want to write for something we are writing which is unique and to make out of it something which is greatly inspires someone. But if we copied the same then there may be issue which is harmful to anyone.