http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/my-friend-andy-can-tell-you-everything-about-blogs-you-ever-wanted-to-know-13 Exploring business and its impact on life with Stever Robbins Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:19:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizblog/my-friend-andy-can-tell-you-everything-about-blogs-you-ever-wanted-to-know-13#comment-2 Blogwild! Amazon Book Publicity Campaign Report Out Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:45:14 +0000 http://blog.steverrobbins.com/my-friend-andy-can-tell-you-everything-about-blogs-you-ever-wanted-to-know-13/#comment-2 <p>[...] By now, I was calling my parents and my sister everytime the ranking changed. My dad had bought ten copies to ship to me for me to sign for relatives and then send out. Dozens of people were taking advantage of the $50 off offer and snapping up copies of Six Figure Blogging and Easy Bake Weblogs and my affiliates were racking up commissions. Email blasts hit inboxes from Michael (thanks Lisa!), Krissy, Krishna, Donna and Julia, Andrea, Mitch (thanks Peggy!), Terry Z, Scott, Stever and Lou. A phalanx of bloggers helped out by posting on their blogs: Sylva, Yvonne, Ben, Paul, Darren, Tris, Connie, Brian, Mark, Carol, David, Angie, and Alicia. I even co-starred in a rambunctious podcast with Madge Weinstein from Yeast Radio. We were reaching critical mass. Ron had called the Filipino gay mafia in San Diego and had instructed everyone to buy the book - he kept repeating the instructions in Tagalog and all I could understand was the words Wibbels and Blogwild. I think they all met at a Starbucks with a laptop and everyone was coerced into buying a copy. [...] </p> [...] By now, I was calling my parents and my sister everytime the ranking changed. My dad had bought ten copies to ship to me for me to sign for relatives and then send out. Dozens of people were taking advantage of the $50 off offer and snapping up copies of Six Figure Blogging and Easy Bake Weblogs and my affiliates were racking up commissions. Email blasts hit inboxes from Michael (thanks Lisa!), Krissy, Krishna, Donna and Julia, Andrea, Mitch (thanks Peggy!), Terry Z, Scott, Stever and Lou. A phalanx of bloggers helped out by posting on their blogs: Sylva, Yvonne, Ben, Paul, Darren, Tris, Connie, Brian, Mark, Carol, David, Angie, and Alicia. I even co-starred in a rambunctious podcast with Madge Weinstein from Yeast Radio. We were reaching critical mass. Ron had called the Filipino gay mafia in San Diego and had instructed everyone to buy the book - he kept repeating the instructions in Tagalog and all I could understand was the words Wibbels and Blogwild. I think they all met at a Starbucks with a laptop and everyone was coerced into buying a copy. [...]

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