On Jan 17, 3:49 pm, Tim Mensch <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/17/2012 4:20 PM, Nathan wrote: > > > In any case, I can tell my subscribers to vote for me in this week's > > newsletter and leave it at that. > > That may be the extent of the "scam." In other words, by asking them to > vote for your app, you're driving people to their site. >
By "scam" in quotes, I assume you mean "effective marketing tactic". I don't think most of should consider marketing to be evil. In internet marketing circles, this is known as linkbait. One of the techniques is a top ten list. You can count on other people's vanity to link to your blog post, page, etc if you mention them. A slight variation is the contest. Still counts on the vanity of product owners, plus a component of users promoting their vote to others. These techniques are available for you and me too, so there is no reason to think it a scam, unless they have offered you goods and services that they can't deliver. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
