Apparently we are not the only ones selling magazine subscriptions online in Australia and New Zealand. Thanks Gran. Without your online vigilance, I definitely would never have heard of Poo-Subscribe and BumShop.
Ok, now I know it is really immature of me to refer to my competitors using the words poo and bum. There is nothing inherently wrong with them after all. They are not bad people. They are just… well… not me. And every dollar spent with them is a potential dollar not spent with mag nation. And they are rich and I am poor. So I don’t like them. And immature as it may be, it is still fun to dis them.
As good and sophisticated as we think we might be online, we are never going to be a match for their huge budgets and teams of staff. When you Google most Aus/NZ magazines, they come up first in organic search, and the masses who should be buying from us (because we are way cooler) end up clicking on the top link and buying from them.
How are we to compete? Our stores kick arse over their stores… wait… in fact they don’t have stores (says me smiling and poking out my tongue). But the one big thing that we have that they don’t is you!
Can you help us? Please? Pretty please? We will also try to reward you and make it worth your while. We believe in mutual loving after all.
If any of you have a favourite magazine (and if you don’t, I question what you are doing reading this blog in the first place), perhaps you could review it on your website / blog / online space. It would have to be a genuine website / blog / online space because the key component would be to fill it with content rich key words (thanks for that technical term Ollee) and link it through to the landing page of that particular mag on our website. Or if that is too much work, perhaps just a link on your blog roll with anchor text something like “mag nation has the best magazine subscriptions – much better than all those other pretenders”. Ok, maybe just mentioning mag nation and magazine subscriptions might be enough.
Apparently Google likes in-bound links. Maybe, just maybe, we might be able to erode some of their organic search market dominance. In return for all your efforts, we would name you a mag nation VIP. Other than sounding really really impressive and winning you amazing kudos at parties, it would also get you lots of other really cool benefits. We just haven’t worked out what they are yet.
What do you say friends? Are you willing to aid and abet our attempts to take down da man? Please give us a shout if the answer is yes and we can talk turkey!
Damn the man – SAVE the empire!! (or nation, you know, whatever) x
Definitely keen to help. Magnation was amazing when I was in Melbourne and you guys definitely are better then all other competitors
Isn’t this a bit desparate?
I really want you guys to succeed, and had a lot of respect for you guys…
Begging for inbound links, so you can improve your search engine rankings… but not revealing what the “benefits” are?
“You scratch my back, and maybe, perhaps, I’ll scratch yours?”
Desparate??? You Betcha!!! That’s what is often required when taking on “da man”.
As for benefits, we know exactly what they are. However, we didn’t think it would read very well to put in writing “you scratch our back, we’ll rub your privates”.
Will do what I can with my blogs / social media profile… you guys are the best! (In fact, I plan on spending a few hours in the Elizabeth Street store tomorrow morning).
I’m always happy to help – Mag Nation help me fulfill my NME addiction each week, and the Elizabeth St store gives me the best customer service I’ve ever received!
I’m currently doing up some graphics for my site, and changing around the navigation. I could put a link [with picture] in my sidebar?
Absolutely yes. I would love to give back to the ones who give me so much joy x
Wrote about you guys a while back after the Undies Monday promotion — you’ve already received a bit of traffic from people typing ‘frankie’ and ‘magazine’ into wordpress.
Ch ch check it >> http://nickabocka.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/mag-nation-made-me-strip-for-goods/
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Hey guys,
Would love to help Magnation out! You’re one of my favourite lunch time retreats!! I’ve written a review on Peppermint Magazine on my blog with plenty of links bag to magnation…
http://carlzjsoda.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/peppermint-fetishism/
Do you have any blog badges we could use? I would put one in my sidebar if you did
maybe you should develop a button for peeps to add to their side menus that can be downloaded from your site. Not sure if helps with SEO but it’s still exposure right?
Your wish is my command (within reason!) — done. But only ‘cos you’re cool and stuff.
I’m in!
I’ve put a link to your NME subscription page in my sidebar. If you came up with a sort of button or something, I could probably do something better…
I would love to help you out. I really enjoy reading the Australian craft books, and regularly buy the books on papercraft and general crafts which we get here in South Africa.If putting your link on my blog will help, I’ll do that with pleasure.We entrepreneurs need to stick together.