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March 24, 2006
Seth Godin Emailed me Back
I reposted the link here and, I guess, so did a lot of other people. In the 2 days since the post, Pomme & Kelly's vote went from 8000 to 47,000 and climbing. I emailed him about the numbers and suprisingly he emailed me back promptly - twice!
Read the emails below.
I reposted the link here and, I guess, so did a lot of other people. In the 2 days since the post, Pomme & Kelly's vote went from 8000 to 47,000 and climbing. I emailed him about the numbers and suprisingly he emailed me back promptly - twice!
Read the emails below.
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thanks for asking
I was going to post this because I didn't think you would respond but I saw your "Off the Record" notation. Would you mind if I posted it?
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seth godin <sethgodin@yahoo.com> wrote:
I never poked fun at Kelly. I adore her.
but yes, you are absolutely right about the numbers!
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Seth Godin
Do You Zoom, Inc.
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This note is off the record (blogs, too) unless we agree otherwise.
> Seth -
>
> This might find you but who knows. These online images become
> little machines themselves and loose the human aspect.
>
> I first ran into you with "Free Prize Inside". After reading that I
> started to realize that the users are the power within this
> interconnected world. I started to look into the viral marketing
> cases and the light bulb really went off. I have a blog -
> excesspool.com - and a myspace account - myspace.com/danetroup - I
> reposted your blog about Kelly's Googleidol.com contest to these
> pages, and maybe added to those numbers. It is amazing seeing the
> first post where you poke fun and then the second where we see the
> results of the circles connecting.
>
> Thanks for the insight-
>
> Dane
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Posted by Dane Troup at March 24, 2006 12:34 PM
Comments
I think the spike in numbers was more due to the fact that the website was featured all over the news in the Netherlands... tv, newspapers and radio.
Posted by: Ben at March 27, 2006 12:25 AM
Thanks for the comment Ben. I agree that other media coverage played a role in their numbers but take a look at this link - http://technorati.com/search/pomme%20and%20kelly and look at the number of people blogging on the topic. I don't want to give Seth's blog all the credit but I just was trying to demonstrate how something goes viral.
Posted by: Dane at March 30, 2006 08:00 AM