Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week

Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by czue on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:19AM (#25373365)

Yeah, good point and definitely agree with this.

I don't actually promote my product on Reddit, I just promote useful content I've created. My posts pretty consistently reach #1 on /r/django because (I suspect) I put substantially more time and effort into them than the average Django guide. I also try quite hard to be a good citizen and give back in a non-promotional way.

Edit: I didn't know about those numbers/terms you added. Will take a look and update my behavior accordingly if necessary.

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Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by abcxjeb284 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @09:31AM (#25374021)

I wouldn’t call your posts “self-promos”. You’re actually posting guides, not “2 lines of text now buy my product”. You’re already being a reasonable redditor.

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Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by chowndown on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:30AM (#25374710)

I had my domain "banned" after arguing with a very self aggrandizing mod (and almost exclusively self promoting poster) in a particular sub.

My offense? An instructional blog about how to scrape commonly requested data by many members of the sub.

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Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by skinnymuch on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:18PM (#25378018)

Your domain gets banned in that specific subreddit?

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Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by czue on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:29AM (#25374695)

Thanks for saying this. Certainly how I feel, but I haven't read the rules...

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Re:Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit ... by pc86 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:00PM (#25375724)

I tend to agree with you, but posting your own content is by definition self-promotion if it's content marketing (which the vast majority of your blog posts are). At the very least that's how a power-hungry Reddit mod with a bug up their butt will treat it.

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