I don’t get the time zone tweeting thing though…

Nice meeting you all

The only reason you should multi-tweet a link is if it’s a BIG deal — think big new site launch, not that you wrote a blog post. And even then you should only be posting across multiple time zones with the same thing IF the news you’re tweeting is highly relevant to people in ALL of those time zones, and there’s little chance they’d have seen the earlier tweet.

It’s one thing to think about marketing and linkbuilding. It’s another thing to paint a picture of yourself as a spammer in the process (like folks who tweet the same blog posts from their own account and a “blog” Twitter account, or who post links to every post no matter how mundane half of them are, or the ones who post the same post link five times a day — why would you want to associate yourself with that??).

Save multi-tweeting for “special” occasions when you’ve got something really buzzworthy going on. If you never do, then do something about it and build something worth that buzz.

The Xanga reference got me too, that was hilarious.

Umm, is this article about tying your shoes? I’m lost.

OK seriously though, I just started a full-time freelance career (9 months ago) and get really nervous doing self-promotion. How much is enough? How much is too little? I read on Guy Kawasaki’s blog about the importance of sending the same tweet out in 3 different time zones (too lazy to link here, sorry). So, in your wise and all-knowing opinion what’s a good promotional frequency to shoot for?

p.s. your post had me in stitches

@Matt – Obviously not. lol Sorry.

Don’t get me wrong. If some blogger says “these are my favorite blogs, you should check them out” that’s cool. It’s interesting to see what other bloggers like. But when they promote it as being something even remotely authoritative, it (and the people who get sucked in by the hype of it) is just kind of sad. If you get nominated without asking, voted a “winner” without asking, etc., then by all means be as happy as you want to be. Good for you. But the moment you have to ask for it or feel obligated to post banners on your site you basically become nothing more than a pawn to promote the contest holder while stroking your own ego.

But Freelance Switch is the best freelance blog of all time. Of ALL time.

You forgot one of the biggest blogwhore symptoms of all — the bloggers who pull the “look at me! look at me!” routine constantly telling their followers to nominate them for this or vote for them for that. It reeks of a pathetic need for acceptance and praise. If you aren’t getting that without asking for it, you don’t really deserve it yet. What’s truly sad is just how many bloggers fall under that spell every time another “top” or “best” list comes along.

And so what if there is little point in this comment.

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Wow at the Xanga mention! I used to have a total addiction to Xanga.