Comments on: I’m the Blogger, She’s the CEO

By: baron

baron — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:10:37 +0000

HMTK,
We’re all going through withdrawal. The first thing that crosses my mind when I see something good is, “has this been dugg?” It’ll take a while to normalize that. I know it’s the best source of promotion but not everyone is welcome to play…

Stan,
I think it’s good that the blog is still advertising free because you have every chance to do it right and you really don’t need any Digg spikes to sustain your growth (though it would be nice).

That’s the beauty of the internet. You can get banned from anywhere (except google) and at the end of the day, good content will carry you through.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:49:47 +0000

Yeah, I probably do talk to much about Digg…

By: Stan Schroeder

Stan Schroeder — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:30:42 +0000

@Baron: thanks for the kind words. I wasn’t, of course, thinking about my site only – there are lots of great sites out there, and yes, someone with marketing skills could lead some of them to success.

@HMTK: Thanks for the support, but I don’t care much about Digg any more. I just try to do my best to write good articles. Guys like you, Baron, Msaleem, and others, are my marketing! (: BTW, here’s a little something I don’t brag about often: as far as growth goes, FranticIndustries has grown very fast – possibly even faster than TechCrunch. At this point, the site is only 4 months old (:.

By: baron

baron — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:13:53 +0000

Wellllll, the world doesn’t revolve around Digg and in terms of quality FI is way better than TC as far as recent posts are concerned.

But that’s the whole point of my post. Quality has nothing to do with how “promoteable” it is.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:45:50 +0000

Comparing Techcrunch to Frantic Industries is a bit misleading as everything TechCrunch on Digg is elevated to the front page (Digg is one of Techcrunch’s top three referrers of traffic) while everything from Frantic Industries gets buried.

When it comes to tech sites Digg is the promotion tool of choice.