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Add Your CommentsEver heard of Details Magazine? Yeh..
How about GQ? Of course..
Now what about “The Cool Hunter”? Probably not right?
Well, The Cool Hunter is a blog that covers the latest in styles and trends. It probably has a part-time staff of 1 dude and a annual budget of a few hundred bucks. But if you’ve got a great product you better start paying attention to guys like The Cool Hunter.
Here’s an example of why:
“The Cool Hunter” recently wrote about a fleece hoodie made by a small French company called Anticon. And as a result…
Anticon, the new French brand who we featured last week sent us a Hoodie as a gesture for all the press interest we generated for them. Seems media outlets from the NY Daily News to the Sunday Times (UK) China Times, FHM Germany, Vice magazine and numerous others had contacted them due to our posting.
Moral of the story. You might not be reading blogs like The Cool Hunter but lots of important people are. What’s your blogging PR strategy?
Design Public is a retailer - they sell modern furniture. They also have blog which they use to have a close, two-way relationship with hundreds of potential customers every day.
Building relationships - Design Public gets it. Look what else they’re doing:
We love Flickr. Antoi, our customer service guru and fashion designer, uses it daily and runs about five groups, so she’s been harping on us to start our own.
We just did.
It’s called “Fresh New Spaces“, and we aim to make it a great showcase of modern interiors. Anyone can join, anyone can post anything - as long as it is related to the theme of making an interior space “fresh, new, and modern”. So show off your interior design talents - let’s see what you’ve got!
That’s awesome! Invite your customers to join in and express themselves. And do it all for $0 using a free online photo management and sharing application with a built-in cult-like following. If I had a fab apartment I know I’d join in!
Considering a podcast for your business? Check out Shel Holtz’s 10 guidelines for B2B podcasts. Shel says you need to:
- Be relevant
- Avoid fluff
- Be infotaining
- Build and engage community
- There are no competitors…okay, there are some competitors
- Don???t advertise or sell
- Be authentic
- Be mindful of your listeners??? time
- Integrate your podcast into the blogosphere
[via Business Week]
Author and designer Stefan Bucher, head of 344 Design has compiled a kickass book that showcases the work of 30 living and breathing graphic design legends. Steven Kapsinow nabbed an interview with him…
via [GraphicDesignForum]
Yahoo is now including blogs along with “mainstream” news as part of their news search service. If you’re a blogger and you’d like your content included, you’ve got to submit your RSS feed to myYahoo. Do that here.
While your at it, don’t forget to promote your site with myYahoo.
“[Success] is going to be in the companies that can maintain and grow audiences and are not trying to control content. I think we will start to see companies aggregate audiences in interesting ways.”
[via B2Day]
