Getting Your Startup Noticed and Covered by Blogs

[jsm386]

First, read startup marketing advice by @Balsamiq

Cannot stress this enough. When we started marketing our company last month we used Peldi from Balsamiq's post as our playbook. It worked...really really well. VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable, and a number of smaller blogs specific to our industry covered us before we even launched (that would be today).

Not to take anything away from this post, but http://www.balsamiq.com/blog/2008/08/05/startup-marketing-ad... is the best free advice I've ever received.

[jeffepp]

Definitely agree, 100% which is why I said it was the first place to go.

[dglassan]

I just started a blog called 30startups. I started it so that I could post reviews and announcements of startups that have recieved funding or that are just launching. It's only about a month old right now but i'm starting to see an increase in traffic. If you have a startup that you would like me to post about on my blog, I would be more than happy to, just click on "submit a startup" at the top of the page and fill out the form. It gives you guys and your startups more exposure and it gives me some great content to write about.

I don't mean for this to be spam to promote my site, I just want to let you guys know that I'm more than happy to blog about your startups

-Dave http://www.30startups.com

[jeffepp]

Cool, I will check it out. Seems to be a fine contribution to the thread!

[dglassan]

forgot to mention that I work an 8-5 job so it may take me a day or two to write up a post...but i'll do my best

-Dave

[JangoSteve]

I liked this article, because rather than being a bunch of abstract advice, it just comes out and says "go to these sites, do these things," which I felt was a nice change of pace. Also, Jeff from Zferral is a great guy.

[jeffepp]

Thanks Steve, appreciate it. Nothing earth-shattering but useful nonetheless..

[tehdik]

Make a great product and it covers itself.

[jeffepp]

I would be interested in hearing from companies that actually believed that and spent no time or effort on PR / Marketing...