I’ve been blogging for a little over a year now, I’ve been providing my readers with great and unique content on a consistent basis and I’ve been doing all within my power to grow my blog. It was only a matter of time before I started getting a lot of traffic to my blog, but deeply in me, I knew something was wrong with my blog.
(image) Consider: Your mission is to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible." You thumbed your nose at Wall Street, and you proved them wrong. You've stood up to the entire media industry by purchasing YouTube and defending fair use in the face of extraordinary pressure. You've done the same with the political and economic giant that is China*. And you're hanging the entirety of your defense against European monopoly charges on the premise of free speech.
While this may not be a marketing story in the strictest sense, it is very much so because marketing has always been about data. Data collection followed by analysis followed by strategies based on that data then eventually marketing campaigns to do what we all are trying to do: sell something.
