Laying Out My Initial Plans
Most of the contestants for the blogging idol have already revealed what they are planning to do to gain rss subscribers on the first week. I have read most of it and I can say that they really have a nice plan to gain subscribers. Today I am going to share with you what are my initial plans that I have thought of. Of course writing good content, doing some forum promotions and others stuffs are obvious. My thoughts are a bit of out of box but I think is very very effective. So how do I start promoting this feed? Well I have started doing it offline. 
But of course I also had some great plans for online promotion
- Begging – yeah I am going to admit this one is a little unorthodox. But so what? I did some statements that would surely touch the readers heart on some discussion sites. Of course I made sure the statements wouldn’t look exaggerating to them. So where did I do it? First is Smorty Forums. I have a pretty good image there as I have helped a lot of people earn (or at least what i think). Another is in the Blogcatalog discussion area. Obviously Blogcatalog is a high-trafficked site averaging about 50,000 page views per day. The problem there is that all members want to take the spotlight so if you had posted there, come back after 2 minutes and you’ll see that you’re thread is already in the second page.
- The family and friends – this one is so easy to understand. The great thing here is that the more friends you have the more chances that there are more who will subscribe to your feed. Filipinos are very close to each other and it’s not hard to see why they would do what you requested for.
- Using my University – As I have said before I am an officer of an organization in our university. And not that just I am an officer, I also have a huge influence all throughout the org. So the thing would be simple, you’ll ask everyone in the IT and CS department as well as the students to subscribe.
- Giving away free stuffs! – Here in Philippines, people hold a lot of bloggers party. And I have a lots of giveaway cards printed that has my feed address at the back asking to subscribe. Now what do I say about Filipino people?
Right now, as the contest goes on I am seeing how little, I mean very little, a bloggers chance are. But this does not stop me from getting motivated! This is a great challenge for me and on how can I improve things that I am not really an expert in. So far I only had a 20+ increase in my feed count but I am very optimistic. How about you? How motivated are you? Well, if you are, then you may like to subscribe to my feed. 
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13 Responses to "Laying Out My Initial Plans"
Nice ideas. I don’t have the luxury of asking family members to subscribe since many of them don’t even know about computers. I’ll have to email some of my contacts so that they will sign up. The forum method is easy to do. Why did you not choose Blog Premiere? Good luck winning the contest and wish me good luck in winning the contest.:)
Giving away free stuff. I like that. I can’t wait man.
@ganesh, i am using blogpremiere forum since the day this blog was born… And i think its not needed to be mentioned..
haha.. I laughed at #3. My blogger blog is already dead. I am officially on WordPress.
We Filipino people are awesome 
haha.
good luck to you with this one. you are having great progresses so keep the efforts pouring in.
sounds like you have it all planned! I hope you will be able to gain a heap of subscribers.
Do keep us posted on your progress. This sounds like a great experiment
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I just noticed that my subscriber count was down by 7 today, ah well, I guess it’s just a glitch
@rajaie, me too… i already have 51 then now back to 34… hmmm…
thats really smart ideas! coz i have never seen this kinda of ideas
all the best 
Great plans,I hope u win
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