Comments on: No one cares about your stupid little startup – 5 tips to make them care

By: website outsourcing companies

website outsourcing companies — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:52:05 +0000

Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your post

By: Readings Tom Eis ,., | Metapreneurship

Readings Tom Eis ,., | Metapreneurship — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:29:53 +0000

[...] founder Matt Brezina on how to drive early traffic through PR strategies. Be sure to follow link in post to [...]

By: pergola designs

pergola designs — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:25:28 +0000

I read your post and can understand that its bit old BUT I would like to add that rules are totally changed for ranking, PageRank and for everything. I don't know but Google is crazy nowadays. So, I would like to see updated news about Google on your blog. I'll keep reading your blog and will wait for it.

I have also got good ranking for pergola designs on one of my KW but didn't get PageRank on it. Can you let me know why it is so?

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:29:04 +0000

I have a small company that is growing leaps and bounds just through a set of well made youtube videos. Until we got onto the idea of video, our pr dept was hitting their head against a brick wall. Video has made such a dramatic impact on our sales that I can´t imagine that there are companies that are not using this as a primary pr tool. Thanks for the read, excellent information and some ideas that I wouldn´t even have thought of.

Cheers, Stevehttp://youngdriversinsura...

By: Isla Pergola

Isla Pergola — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:35:09 +0000

PR is extremely challenging, especially when you are first starting out. It is really difficult to find the right route and then stick to it. Thanks for the insights and I´ll be referring back to this article again with our little companies next launch.

By: Stuart Gitsham

Stuart Gitsham — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:35:25 +0000

This was a good article providing sound practical advice. One thing I would add. Find a professional pr person to help you. PR is labour intensive. At some point you will need assistance. Avoid large agencies, they are expensive and insitutional in their thinking. Find the guy that worked in a big agency, has a good reputation and is now going it alone.

By: Azzam Sheikh

Azzam Sheikh — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:57:19 +0000

Just got to the blog post now since I have been having a ball with the FeedSquare reader in Chrome and it made we want to read feeds

But Great posy, by the way, makes me think damn! I wish I had kept my little heatmap analytics tool going which had approx 100 users and I thought it was a dead thing, I should have communicated more.

Back to the drawing board with a new concept, thanks.

By: brezina

brezina — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:02:09 +0000

glad i could help cheryl. Thanks for stopping by! I don't think the badge program is dead. Anything that you can get on someone's site that links back to yours is fantastic for SEO and awareness. You just need to think of something compelling for that end user.

By: cheryllmorris

cheryllmorris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:13:40 +0000

Hey Matt,

This was the most helpful and practical post/article I've read on building a user base – thanks. I'd love to hear more about the more early stage initiatives/ideas you used to ramp up — or really did TC bring you from 50 to 10,000 users? Also wondering about the badge program: Do you think it's still a good idea, or given the hype around foursquare are people “over it” as part of another web app? By any means, thanks for the post, and I'm sure I'll refer to it again down the road.

By: brezina

brezina — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:18:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story Natalie. The closed beta/open beta line is a tough line to walk. And i totally agree, being in SF or the valley helps immensely.

Glad to hear you are liking Xobni!