A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Do I dare call bullshit aloud? Do you?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I mean, as much as Social Media is supposed to be about “honesty&# and “being human&# and “genuineness,&# of course most isn’t. Maybe you’ll see that “RSS subscribers&# is not the measure of the quality of your thoughts. When do I earn the right to say what I think?

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An Experiment with Guest Posts

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

I don't care if the guest has 4 RSS subscribers or 4 New York Times best-selling books. Tags: Announcements Guest Posts blogging social media writing. There's no sense in a guest-post that completely I agree with — I can just write that myself! Thoughtful counter-arguments help all of us think and learn.

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Reputation isn't as powerful as you imagine

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

That with 17,000 wonderful, loyal, friendly, supportive RSS subscribers and as many page-hits from Twitter and HackerHews. He knows all the major players in the industry including the key folks at WordPress.com, BZ Media (the CopyBlogger media group), ProBlogger, and members of the press at Mashable, TechCrunch, and others.

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“She doesn’t deserve to be alive”

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Social media usually isn’t a debate, it’s a combination rotary club and soap box. Talk about the social media echo chamber!) 30,000 RSS subscribers doesn’t make you happy either, by the way. The media predicted an embarrassment, playing to a massive, largely empty stadium. ” Wah wah wah.

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Guest post round-up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Attacking your sucky excuses for not blogging

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

You already know that nowadays you’re invisible without some sort of social media presence. Don’t worry (right now) about widgets and RSS and fancy formatting and clever pictures. You already know the (alleged) benefits of having a personal or business blog. But you still don’t blog, and for good reason, right?

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Employed with a side of startup

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For example, you know that to avoid social media shitstorms you're supposed to have stupendous customer service , so you claim as much on your website. We all have dreams of stratospheric growth, whether it's hoping the next blog post will get 267 votes on Hacker News and double your RSS subscribers , or hoping that the advent of release v1.1

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