How I used Market Samurai from Challenge 2010 to select a domain, and the first things I did to prepare to gather an audience.
Starting with a self-hosted WordPress website, I created a few posts, then I created an account at Twitter and Youtube – with a username as close to my domain name as possible.
I registered a profile with Slideshare and registered my blog with Blogcatalog – where my site will be reviewed by a human before being listed.
Then I registered my site with Feedburner. Many people use iGoogle, and using feedburner makes it easy to get your information out to a lot of places more easily.
The next piece of marketing material I put together was a Fan Page on Facebook. Following that, I imported the RSS Feed from my WordPress blog into the Notes section of my Business Page on Facebook.
The last thing I did was to create an account on Friendfeed, and pulled together the RSS feeds from all of the different Social Media accounts I had just created.
Now, when ever I do a post, an entire network of social media services are updated.
One thing I like to be sure to do, is include a link back to my own website within the first 150 words of the post. This way all of the services that syndicate my content will automatically provide links back to me – with my ideal keywords… which I had found using Market Samurai.
Watch for my next report on Challenge 2010 as the event unfolds!
Many thanks to Ed Dale and associates at http://www.challenge.co
you guys rock!
