As a student in high school, I certainly was thought of by my peers as a “geek” (as if you didn’t guess that already). Putting tags on people is something I never personally understood, although I’ve noticed most do it unconsciously. My peers perceived me as a geek, but the funny thing is it never bothered me. I always embraced what I saw as true to myself and never sacrificed my beliefs or values purely to fit in.
What’s the point of opening this post like this? Well, on the net – what wins? Certainly not the vanilla, not the middle-of-the-road, and not the content that exists purely to fit in. There’s far too much of that in our world, and the web sees through it.
Yesterday I wrote on how the only way to build a sustainable web brand was not to play only to networks and try to get big spikes in traffic, but to build your brand slowly, methodically and organically. I stick by this.
Well, what if you don’t care about building a web brand or sustainable traffic. What if you really do want a one-hit wonder, or want to get a large amount of fleeting attention to just one thing or one idea. Today I thought I’d give you a quick strategy to do just that.
Please keep in mind this is the antithesis of yesterday’s advice for building a sustainable brand and sustainable traffic. This is a strategy to create a big hit for one specific idea, video, image, article – you name it. If you’re going to use technique on your blog, I highly suggest using it sparingly. Continue reading...
