{"id":193,"date":"2008-10-02T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-10-02T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T11:25:08","slug":"marketing-or-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"Marketing or Publicity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, basically it depends how much you want to spend&#8230; simply put you pay for marketing, while publicity is free! well free as far as you don&#8217;t give anyone any money, but of course it doesn&#8217;t just happen on it&#8217;s own, you&#8217;ve got to invest the time &amp; effort, but it&#8217;s probably more fruitful than blanket marketing &amp; advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Invest your time building a dialogue with your audience, leverage social media sites &amp; the web 2.0 revolution, find out what it is they want and give it to them. Don&#8217;t waste you time developing products then spend the rest of your time looking for an audience, invest your time in building your audience base, build a rapport with them, then develop products and services they want, stuff they will wax lyrical about to everyone else, thus in turn increasing your market share and exposure.<\/p>\n<p>These early adopters become your publicity channel, continue creating products they want and they will continue spreading the message, focus on them, not the wider market, <strong>as they&#8217;re do your marketing for you, for free!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, basically it depends how much you want to spend&#8230; simply put you pay for marketing, while publicity is free! well free as far as you don&#8217;t give anyone any money, but of course it doesn&#8217;t just happen on it&#8217;s own, you&#8217;ve got to invest the time &amp; effort, but it&#8217;s probably more fruitful than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[37,15,38,28,17,19],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brands-marketing","tag-free","tag-networking","tag-pr","tag-publicity","tag-social-media","tag-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.brendanmitchell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}