Comments on: Talking to the Tel Aviv Writer’s Cafe: 7 tips for marketing yourself with blogs and social media

By: marketing book shop

marketing book shop — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:40:00 +0000

Great! Thank you for your post.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 10:01:45 +0000

You got it Dee! It’s all about balance and moderation and not being annoying etc.

Purim Sameach!

By: Deena the sister

Deena the sister — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:09:26 +0000

Thanks Mir. That definitely helps. I think I understood what you meant when you said “measured”. Balanced? Everything in moderation? Or maybe just, don’t become an annoying girl that no one ever wants to be in touch with because you waste all this space plugging your work all the time? Put a hyphen in between each word and that will be the new term.

Happy Purim!

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My blog is mentioned! « Deena’s home online — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:11:06 +0000

[...] My blog is mentioned! My sister Miriam used me as an example in a talk she gave recently. How fun! It was called Seven Tips for Marketing Yourself with Blogs and Social Media. [...]

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:59:47 +0000

Dee, when I said “you need to be measured” I meant that you need to be moderate, i.e. not too much of one thing or another. I’m sure there’s a word for what I’m referring to, but I can’t think of it right now.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:52:08 +0000

Thanks Dee!

Answers:

Yes, you should buy your name domain name, even if you don’t like it and don’t plan on using it. Better you have it than someone else because you never know. deenascreations CAN be your branding for the long term, especially if people get to know you and connect you with that domain, but you should still own your name domain.
If you want people to hire you, you need to make it easy for them to contact you. You can create an email address that you just use for online stuff if you want, although I use my real email address everywhere. Thanks to Gmail’s spam filter, it works out ok. It’s ideal to have a phone number where you can be reached, but if all that makes you uncomfortable than at the very least you should have a form people can fill out to contact you with. I know WordPress.com doesn’t allow that, but you can use a service like Wufoo or Google Forms and embed it in your page.
Like everything in life, you need to be measured in what you do. When you leave a comment, make sure to enter your URL in the field for URLs. Then you don’t need to add it to the comment. You can put it at the end of fb messages, but I would try to do it only where relevant or not annoying. There are no hard and fast rules here – you need to use your judgment.

Hope that helps!

By: Deena the sister

Deena the sister — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:58:53 +0000

Mir,

This post is so amazing. These Jewish dudes rock and I can see why people think we’re trying to take over the world. It’s like we take over the world by default. Hilarious. I’m so proud of Gary and I feel like he uses a lot of his Jewish ideals and values in what he does.

I have some questions which I think may be relevent to other readers so I am posting them here.

1. Should I really by deenalevenstein.com? I don’t like it. I’ve thought of deenalev or deenaleh… Is deenascreations not too great for long-term?

2. You say to have contact info on the blog. I don’t because I’m uncomfortable sending out my email address to the world. What to do? What are the implications of having your email out there?

3. Is it rude to write my URL everywhere I “go” online? When I post a comment on someone’s blog, I’m alway tempted to just write my blog address at the bottom of the comment. I always have it at the end of emails but I’m even tempted to put it at the end of fb messages. How do you know when it’s already inappropriate and annoying?

Thanks!
Deena

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By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:56:11 +0000

Oh, but don’t bother switching your domain names that are already registered there. It’s not worth it. Just from now on, if you are buying, don’t buy there.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:55:35 +0000

It sucks because they try to trick you into buying everything under the sun when all you want to do is buy a simple domain name. Plus, they charge you for private whois, whereas at name.com it’s included in the price, as it should be.

And GoDaddy has pictures of women in leather jackets all over the place. That alone makes it spammy (albeit fun for most guys I guess. bluch.).

By: What War Zone???

What War Zone??? — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:49:32 +0000

Hey Miriam-why does that certain name registrar suck? I use them….time to switch? Always enjoy reading…

Benji