How many requests do I receive for folks who wish to add their content to THE Canadian Personal Finance Site? This week over 10, and most weeks at least 5 of them, and 99.9% of all of them are from folks who I do not read, nor do I know of them. If I ran a corner store, and someone who I did not know walked in and said, “I’d like to run your store today, can I?“, I would give the same answer I give most Guest Post requests, NO!
Guest Posts: Please Stop the Madness
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From http://nothowtodoit.com 4750 days ago
Made Hot by: steeldawn on April 19, 2011 11:52 am
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4749 days ago
Guest posting requests. Who said the slush piles of old school publishing were gone for good. Now every blogger knows what the newspaper editors and book publishers of old went through. Because e-mail is free and you can mass e-mail a request to hundreds of bloggers at once in only minutes. But with all these technical marvels, the basic principles of publishing have not changed. Want to contribute to someone's publication? Don't just send random e-mail proposals, especially if it's clear you haven't even read the blog in question. Instead, get to know the editor. Get to know their publication. Build a relationship with them and then ask them how you can help. Is this too much to ask? Shouldn't be! And the ROI will be much better than mass e-mailing too. :)
4300 days ago
4750 days ago
I saw a guest post that was insulting to some readers (including me) here on a Friday some weeks ago. The next Monday, the host blogger chastised those who were offended. Instead of taking something negative & turning it around, he chose to make it worse - much worse.
Duncan
4300 days ago