What Worked and What Didn't in 2007?

2008 a new year - to help with marketing I want to know everyones success and failures.

What worked for you in 2007 and what didn't? What did you spend the most money on with high returns, low/negative returns?

This should help all entering marketing in the new year and what we should look for in the coming months.

 

I have already given an answer to that kind of question and it would be a booster if you leave your suggestions..

Is Anyone Reading Your “Quality” Blog Articles?

I would love to know what others learned so that I can apply all that to my new blog (see signature for links to both blogs)

 

I spent most on my webmaster forum!! not making any profit though! Has to come

 

nice this is a good list actually
thanks

 

for me 2007 was a bad year i lost my mysql databases .. so i lost all my 100+ websites so 2008 is a new start from 0 to build again all sites

 

arcades worked for me i made a good bit this year from them

 

top5webhosts.com advertising was my biggest waste of money.

I've found that article marketing doesn't typically give huge returns, but gives smaller and more consistent traffic instead, so it was positive overall.

I've found that Sitepoint.com's advertising forum only works for certain things, but not well for web hosts.

I've found that craigslist is a valid marketing tool.

Those are a few things

 

I've found that to build a real business - you've got to build an authority site with a great brand.

 

Anybody man enough to admit that signatures, link exchanging, press releases, seo, reviews from Webmasters like John Chow didn't work?

Riiiiiight. ~

 

I agree with article marketing to an extent I like when it uses backlinks - article marketing is really not that powerful, I found

craigslist is a great marketing tool! I use it for my badcircuit.com and it brought great return for the month of december

 

john chow readers are all diggers - since he got on diggs front page more than 30 times, so his audience is really not that powerful base on conversion.

I got on his website for free with out a review and received the chow affect but I also got on shoemoney and my conversion of traffic converted more on shoemoneys traffic than chows.