I’ve been keeping up with the Next Internet Millionaire reality web show, usually watching an episode at lunch each week. If you have fallen behind you can catch up on all the episodes here.
While the show has its ups and downs, overall I think Joel and Eric are doing a fantastic job with this very ambitious project. Obviously I’m biased because the topic is Internet marketing so not a single episode goes by where I don’t enjoy what’s covered, but the last episode I watched, episode 10, was especially interesting because they finally focused on blogging.
Dave Taylor was the resident expert on hand to teach the remaining contestants about blogging and social media.
Watching how the contestants handle the tasks they are given is generally the most entertaining part of show and in episode 10 the assignment was particularly interesting. It was straight forward - you have eight hours to go out and drive as much traffic to your blog as you can. The students were given a ready made blog and the focus was a charity cause.
I found myself thinking that I would have leveraged the fact that they were contestants on the Next Internet Millionaire reality show and used that as an entry point, along with the charity blog premise, to contact all the top bloggers and get them to write about it. One post on a top blog would have been enough to crush the competition.
In the end one team did have an interesting approach focusing on various communities, such as LiveJournal, to attract attention. This was a good strategy because you get live people actually sitting in front of the computer at that time. If you go send out emails to people by the time you get in touch the eight hours may be over.
If you had eight hours to build as much buzz about your blog and attract links and traffic, what would you do?
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start commenting on the most popular blog sites with a link back to the blog
go into chat rooms for one second and drop the site in there
make a quick youtube vid
write a story about it and do one of those mass emails that everyone seems to get.
Other than that, I don’t think I know what I would do.
I started watching the first 2 episodes, but it didn’t grab me. Too much drama and not enough content.
But I will have to check out this one about blogging.
Here’s what I wouldn’t do: I wouldn’t pretend to be a woman on my space or whatever it was he did with that (it’s been a week+ since I watched this episode)
I caught up the episodes a couple of weeks ago when I was cleaning up in the basement. I just let the show run in the background.
Yaro, great post!
I have also been watching TNIM (The Next Internet Millionaire) religiously. It has lots of great tips and hints about marketing online and making money online.
Although some of the techniques I think personally are outdated…as Charles Trippy pointed out.
But that is just my opinion, feel free to bombard it. Joel Comm…another successful and profitable website indeed!
Kind Regards,
Fabien of SmallFishBigMoney.Com
I’ll do same to attract attention, I’ll make a link with other Blog that I have or try to get link from my friend Blog.
for the last 3 hours, I would like to do commenting strategy with trackback.
Hi UK
Wow, thanks for the link - it’s a very professionally done show. And fairly entertaining as well.
Chris
Thanks for the link. I regularly watch the People of the Web potf.com episodes
yup - its amazing that charles was the best with socializing - which I think why he may win the next internet millionaire! thor was just a spammer
Hi there,
Yaro, haven’t you considered starting any contest anytime soon? I have seen a lot of contests and giveaways around the Blogosphere , like John and Jeremy contest and Darren’s giveaway.
I missed out on the initial part there, but I wont miss here! Would like a heads up if you would be planning one!
Just a quick note: the contestants weren’t allowed to leverage their existing contacts or networks, and they couldn’t represent themselves publicly as part of TNIM either (as it would have revealed weeks ago who was still around, taking away much of the drama).
Ahh, I thought that might be the case Dave - thanks for letting us know.
The episode about the next internet millionaire inspired me and also gave me certain tips which will be beneficial for me to become a millionaire. The way the episode is organized is very well which gives hints to many of us.