This week, the Carnival Of Marketing is going to be hosted at Direct Response Works. The blogpost isn’t online yet, but it’s expected really soon. Next week, July 30th, it’s my turn. I’ll be hosting the Carnival with pleasure. Be sure to send me your links and leads, I’ll take a look at them and inlcude them in the post I’ll be writing.
Submissions can be sent through coolz0r at gmail dot com, and should be no later than Sunday morning 10 AM CET. The post will be online somewhere around 2 PM. (European Time -6 hours equals NewYorkish time, to be clear)
I’m looking forward to your contributions.
Because a lot of people find it difficult to write Coolz0r (c o o l z zero r), you can also send submission to miel at vanopstal dot info. So don’t tell me there was no way to reach me in time :)
Rulez:
- Don’t submit an old post. The post needs to be from at least the past couple of weeks, and preference will be given to posts from the past week.
- Submit posts that are actionable. Tips that people can actually apply will almost always win out over abstract stuff. “How” beats “Why”.
- Submit posts that are complete. As a corellary to the above, posts that refer out to articles or other sites for more information, or that have anything to the effect of “Watch this space for more information” are going to be among the first to be cut.
- Don’t submit posts that are nothing more than a pitch. It’s possible to sell subtlely within a good, actionable post (see the Joe Vitale example above). But a couple of the submissions were basically an ad for the company’s product. An occasional post like that may work in the context of your blog, but if you think it’s a good idea to submit that for a carnival, you’ve definitely got a thing or two to learn about marketing via blogs.