Re:Ask HN: What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app)
by brandnewlow on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:37AM
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I have, yes. Though I've tried not to be annoying about it because I see these people fairly often and they post their stories to the site pretty frequently. I can't stand people trying to sell me stuff every time I see them. I don't want to be that guy. Again, maybe this is the problem.
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Re:Ask HN: What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app)
by jellisjapan on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:49AM
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Is your story actually interesting? I know in New Orleans, local successes make the news all the time because there is an interesting story to back it up. If your pitch is just that you made a website about Chicago and not much more, it wouldn't interest me much either.
Re:Ask HN: What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app)
by brandnewlow on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @09:01AM
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Good question.
So back in April, I was running out of cash after an advertiser bailed on a payment. I appealed to our members to chip in and become Micropatrons a la Kottke.org, and they sent me $1200 in 10s and 20s in about 48 hours. I was stunned. That's also when I realized that I had something that some people were really jazzed about.
I wrote my "story" out here for that effort: http://www.windycitizen.com/sponsors/micropatron If you're bored at work, give it a look and tell me if you think it's interesting or not.
Re:Ask HN: What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app)
by brlewis on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @08:44AM
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Read their articles to get to know what they like to write about. Then look at different things that could be said about Windy Citizen and find a story that they would like to write. Then talk to them.
You want to be Jeremy Toeman. Skip ahead to the part about him at http://scobleizer.com/2009/04/07/a-private-note-to-pr-people...