But then no one asked me.

Once I fired up jackassletters.com I decided I needed to come up with cheap and free ways to promote and market the site. I’m not sure what the difference is between marketing and promotion, but that last sentence sounds so much better if it seems like I am doing two things to drive traffic to the site.

I listed it with as many blog cataloging sites as I could find, put it in my signature file on all the forums I participate in, posted it to digg and reddit, and took out a full page ad in the New York Times.

Irony here is a friend put the jackassletters site in his stumbleupon.com bookmarks, and that did more to drive traffic to the site than anything I’d done. Yack!

I also created a twitter account for the site, since it seemed like a handful of people were already taking about it (I’m looking at you Joel Postman! Still don’t know why you didn’t write back. That hurts my feelings). And today I finally created a facebook profile, but mostly so I could have access to the APIs of their site to try to roll out a jackassletters web app.

I guess there’s still myspace to attack, and a lot of other ways to market and promote the site. I’ll get there eventually. Really I will. Well, unless I hit 38 years old and get too old for this shit.

Kids these days.

Full disclosure: I didn’t really take out a NYT ad.