{"id":1000,"date":"2009-05-12T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2009-05-17T18:07:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T22:07:04","slug":"viral-promotion-in-action-my-own-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2009\/05\/12\/viral-promotion-in-action-my-own-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Promotion in Action &#8211; My Own Paper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man I was shocked earlier today, I found out that my special mini-whitepaper, &#8220;<a title=\"Twitter Demystified for Business Users\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/e-newsletters\/this-month.html#2\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter Demystified for Business Users<\/a>&#8220;, was on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitepronews.com\/2009\/05\/10\/twitter-demystified-for-business-users\/\" target=\"_self\">home page of SitePro News<\/a>. SitePro News is the web&#8217;s most widely read webmaster resource. It&#8217;s like the New York Times for my industry! (I linked to the article on its own page although by now, it has probably moved off the home page.)<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am not sure if SitePro News picked up my article from Twitter or if they found it from one of the ezines syndication sites that I posted my newest article on, but the buzz on Twitter alone has been huge.<\/p>\n<p>Today on Twitter as well,\u00a0there was a flurry of activity and link love pointing to my paper. I picked up a steady and constant stream of new Twitter followers &#8211; just from one great article that got disseminated in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent example of how viral marketing using Twitter and article marketing can be used\u00a0together to promote your business endeavors. Wow, even I&#8217;m impressed. I don&#8217;t always put my special edition e-newsletter articles on syndication services, but I will certainly look to do that more frequently with this particular reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man I was shocked earlier today, I found out that my special mini-whitepaper, &#8220;Twitter Demystified for Business Users&#8220;, was on the home page of SitePro News. SitePro News is the web&#8217;s most widely read webmaster resource. It&#8217;s like the New York Times for my industry! (I linked to the article on its own page although by now, it has probably moved off the home page.) Now, I am not sure if SitePro News picked up my article from Twitter or if they found it from one of the ezines syndication sites that I posted my newest article on, but the buzz on Twitter alone has been huge. Today on Twitter as well,\u00a0there was a flurry of activity and link love pointing to my paper. I picked up a steady and constant stream of new Twitter followers &#8211; just from one great article that got disseminated in a variety of ways. This is an excellent example of how viral marketing using Twitter and article marketing can be used\u00a0together to promote your business endeavors. Wow, even I&#8217;m impressed. I don&#8217;t always put my special edition e-newsletter articles on syndication services, but I will certainly look to do that more frequently with this particular reaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,29,195],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","category-bright-idea-tips","category-twitter","tag-viral-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}