Comments on: How to Be Stupid at Marketing Yourself https://wordsonpageblog.com/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html a freelance writing resource. Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:26:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lori https://wordsonpageblog.com/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html#comment-11962 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 21:26:19 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html/#comment-11962 Anne,that would take a pretty big leap of faith to spend that kind of money on an unknown! I won't let people promote things like that — it has to be from someone legitimate, and it has to be an offer that can actually benefit the readers. Waste of time otherwise.

]]> By: anne wayman https://wordsonpageblog.com/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html#comment-11961 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:23:59 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html/#comment-11961 Devon and Lori, I wish we could stop that seminar cold… the pitch I've seen recently is spend x thousands on seo… monthly… a few bucks on seo type stuff may be a good idea for a website, but monthly and thousands? I think not.

]]> By: Lori https://wordsonpageblog.com/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html#comment-11959 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:56:04 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html/#comment-11959 Oh, I bet it was the same one who just wrote to me asking the same thing. What gets me is they don't think we'll do a simple search for their names/emails. I found this same person asking in a blog comment the very thing she was just asking me in email.

Nope — you need to propose an idea, not just blanket the Internet with guest-post requests.

]]> By: Devon Ellington https://wordsonpageblog.com/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html#comment-11958 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:08:45 +0000 http://loriwidmer.com/wordsonpage/index.php/2013/04/how-to-be-stupid-at-marketing-yourself.html/#comment-11958 Someone pitched to the workshop site address, offering to write a guest blog "for free". The administrator responded, asking her what blog she meant, since there is no blog specific to the workshop site. Miss Thing then sent links to posts about making tablecloths. Obviously chickie did no research, much less even read the questions in the response. She was told to research her markets before pitching and not to contact us again.

How NOT to land a slot! And how to market yourself stupidly. You know I'll remember her name and not take anything I see from her byline seriously.

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