• Free vectors, stock photography, and other design resources

• Over 500K viewers / month

• Over 14TB of downloads / month

• Content Partnerships

Standard Promotion Sites: Digg, StumbleUpon,TheWebBlend, Delicious, etc…

Create a procedure to submit to sitesand fans

Find other ways to promote!

Make it Sticky

Study Your Analytics

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There are over 22 million WordPress publishers as of February 2010.

10.6 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com

plus 11.4 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.

According to Quantcast, around 250 million people visit one or more WordPress.com blogs every month, and they view over two billion pages on those blogs.

Great Content Builds a Community.

Find your promoters.

Engage and interact.

One of the secrets to success is having contributors.

People naturally want to help.

Look for potential contributors.

WordPress makes it easy!

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Create a backlog of articles.

• Ad Networks• In-post advertising• Text Links• Giveaways and Contests• Donation Button

Is there a Return on Investment?

Getting stuff for free saves you money

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The More Money, the Bigger the Site

Keep your content up-to-date.

Too much creative freedom can actuallyhinder the creation process.

Keeping inspired…

Get a moleskine and takenotes of everything

Spend time outside ofWordPress

Add new plugins to WordPress

Look at the larger sites