Written on October 12th, 2009 at 12:10 am by Darren Rowse
How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)
The gang over at Carsonified has released the following video this week by Kevin Rose talking about taking a web app from 1 to 1 million users.
While the video talks more about web applications and not specifically about blogging – some of the principles that Kevin talks about I think are applicable to blogging.
Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose from Carsonified on Vimeo.
60 Responses to “How to Go from 1 to 1,000,000 Users (or Readers)” - Add Yours
Navneeth M Shenoy
October 12th, 2009 12:59 am
One of the best videos i have seen. Very good practicla advice. Thanks for sharing this :)
Mikes Sumondong
October 12th, 2009 1:08 am
Thanks for sharing sir.
Downloading the video to watch it all over again…
Syed Akram
October 12th, 2009 1:20 am
Thanks for good video. It very useful for bloggers anyway.
Gordie Rogers
October 12th, 2009 1:26 am
I can’t wait to get over a hundred and then a thousand first!
Surender Sharma
October 12th, 2009 1:29 am
Hi there,
Kevin Rose is innovative geek.
His foundation is much stronger than other.
This video is really helpful to me for inspiration.
Eric B.
October 12th, 2009 1:34 am
Man, this looks like a great video!
Too bad my headphones are no longer working :( I’ll have to go get some new ones to watch this.
Dave Doolin
October 12th, 2009 1:50 am
I’m halfway through this, but I’m going to have to go back through it and take notes 2d time around.
Highly applicable to a startup I’m helping get started.
Jannie Funster
October 12th, 2009 2:30 am
Well, web apps may not be my thing but the advice to “Attend events you can’t afford,” bears listening to. Maybe BlogHer. Or since I live right here in Austin, something at SXSW, blogging related.
Daan | Whenigetrich.com
October 12th, 2009 2:42 am
The first point he makes about giving people a reward. Is there a plugin of some sort in Wordpress to give people that comment very often a certain status? Like you see on many forums? I think this might stimulate comment-count and also the number of returning readers.
poorblogger
October 12th, 2009 2:59 am
A good video..
It shows us the tips on web apps
Miguel | Simply Blog
October 12th, 2009 3:02 am
Interesting… yeah, I heard about this video before. When I have the time, I’ll have to check it out! :) Thanks for sharing.
Asif
October 12th, 2009 5:24 am
Yes, Good to gain the information, but things are more tough than they are shown.
Adam Bishop
October 12th, 2009 6:31 am
There are some great ideas in there, and a couple I’ve not seen elsewhere. Very useful.
Greg Ellison
October 12th, 2009 8:04 am
That was very good video. You can really take somethings he said and put it towards your blog. Greg Ellison
Logan Graham
October 12th, 2009 8:09 am
His first point I think is the most useful one – you have to stroke the ego to get participation. Actually, Darren, I was just reading the part in your book (with Chris Garrett) about “people wanting to belong”. Stroking the ego means that you develop a “connection”.
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October 12th, 2009 11:06 am
Now that was really helpful. A nice video.
Atif
October 12th, 2009 12:22 pm
Well, Your almost all posts are very helpful for us. I think you are the first i see on the net that share his real and dynamic ideas so other people get help from these posts. I really a big fan of you and your posts … Thanks a lot
CanItReallyWork?
October 12th, 2009 1:08 pm
That was a great talk. There were plenty of great of tips and points that could be translatable blogging.
I would’ve like to have seen how (if) any of those may have been applied to ProBlogger.
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October 12th, 2009 2:09 pm
Thanks for reading and visiting. I respect your time and appreciate your comments. I appreciate this and look further with this article..
Gaming Accessories
October 12th, 2009 2:58 pm
Thanks for sharing this article and it’s really useful for every blogger and after reading this, I will definately try to implement on this…..
Franck Silvestre
October 12th, 2009 6:08 pm
I learned a couple of things from Kevin. I need to get more into social media.
Lot of tech stuff, but it’s ok. No overbuild is an excellent advice that can be taken for any piece of marketing (thinkg Google)
Franck
titan
October 12th, 2009 6:27 pm
Thanks . Its really good.
Srivastava
October 12th, 2009 7:21 pm
I wish I could do this, anyways learned few things from Kevin..
thanks a lot.
Ricky
October 12th, 2009 8:10 pm
I have always had issues gaining more readers so this has been helpful
Web Marketing Tips
October 12th, 2009 10:44 pm
Clicked on video and waiting for downloan full than I will play it. Seems to me that this one will be nice and learning video.
Stage Drama
October 13th, 2009 12:31 am
Great Post.Thanks for this
Nicholas Cardot
October 13th, 2009 4:08 am
The information in this video is excellent. Anyone who can build such a massively popular site like Digg without using any traditional means of online marketing definitely knows what he’s talking about.
kpkumar
October 13th, 2009 4:28 am
Some logics are very helpful for bloggers, Great video, thanks
Ronblogger
October 13th, 2009 5:45 am
Thanks for sharing,a really helpful video
budkini
October 13th, 2009 8:20 am
Yea. Appreciate the article and video post. Kevin is a great source of info. Thanks for taking the time to post
James
October 13th, 2009 2:19 pm
Great video, Kevin rose is a true marketing guru!
Shony
October 13th, 2009 2:32 pm
Great Information here at problogger! I didn’t realize all of the helpful information out here on blogging and seo. Thanks again!
William
October 14th, 2009 1:43 am
Excellent talk and well worth watching. Does anyone know if the sildes are online?
I think my favorite comment was the “hack the press” section. He mentioned it’s often easier to get in contact with the most junior bloggers/writers for big sites (like TechCrunch or Engadget). Another point that goes along with that is contacting the “long tail” of bloggers – a lot of little bloggers can sometimes be worth as much as one big blogger.
dieorfly
October 14th, 2009 5:14 am
Thanks for this video.
Lots of interesting ideas.
Greg Hunter
October 14th, 2009 5:46 am
Thank you very much for this video. I do think there is a great deal of useful information in this video that Kevin Rose gives that can be used for blogging. I’m going to run back through the video again and take notes as well.
Thanks Again for another valuable post.
911 Fitness
October 14th, 2009 7:00 am
Well said, great video my latest site is gona work hard on getting readers with quality content and the tools you laid out thanks http://911-fitness.com/
Gerlaine
October 15th, 2009 12:29 am
This was a wonderful post. I took notes and learned a heck of a lot! ;)
Gabe | freebloghelp.com
October 15th, 2009 3:36 am
Kevin has done it again. Lots of useful tips for any web app and you’re right, some can be purposed toward blogs as well.
I find that his point of keeping things simple is key right now. Many companies are updating their sites to increase usability and improve load times. Features are great but so many of them are released without adding much value to the majority of users.
Coach
October 15th, 2009 2:46 pm
Thanks for the video and for weaving together the aspects of web apps, seo practices, and ego-stroking pages. You have managed to do all that and still remember how simplicity fits in to a reader experience which may turn sticky. Sticky is good.
Manish
October 17th, 2009 5:35 am
Wow…this is a great video.Its very informative and i dont mind even downloading it and sharing with others :)
Julia
October 17th, 2009 3:32 pm
Interesting video… Thanks for sharing.
I definetely need to come up with social networking. I believe many successful bloggers do it.
17 Laptop Bag
October 21st, 2009 11:32 pm
I found that you can also apply these rules to writing an article or persuasion page. You want to immediately enhance the ego of the reader to keep them interested in online content.
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October 31st, 2009 8:13 pm
But that’s way too logical.I was not really thinking. I’ve been up since really early and I went to bed later than I like to. It doesn’t matter at this point since I can’t take it back.
Kiki
November 1st, 2009 3:03 am
That was amazing. Thanks for that.
Jahangir Alam
November 1st, 2009 3:38 am
Hi Darren, Quite an impressive video that you shared with us. To grow is all about sharing the right information to the write audience. I have a dream to increase my users from currently 8000 a month to 1 million by 6 months. I think this is possible and I also know that I have to put a lot of effort and work into this.
Thanks once again for the video link.
Jay
Nisha
November 6th, 2009 11:39 am
This would definitely very useful for us bloggers. Will check it out thoroughly when am back, thanks for the video anyway! :-)
Cisco Training Videos
November 6th, 2009 2:19 pm
I can only hope to have that many visit my site. I will try to implement these suggestions thanks.
film izle
November 7th, 2009 2:50 pm
Wow…this is a great video.Its very informative and i dont mind even downloading it and sharing with others :)
film izle
November 7th, 2009 2:50 pm
Thanks for the video and for weaving together the aspects of web apps, seo practices, and ego-stroking pages. You have managed to do all that and still remember how simplicity fits in to a reader experience which may turn sticky. Sticky is good.
herbalife
November 7th, 2009 2:52 pm
Thanks so much for these suggestions. I’ll put them to use
Pet Society Help
November 8th, 2009 7:12 am
I actually watched the video from start to finish to my surprise, kevin sure does talk about drinking a lot. Wonder if it’s just a front, part of how he markets himself.
Jason
November 9th, 2009 3:29 pm
Great post that video is very good long, but worth it. Any tips to get more traffic to our websites is well worth it. Thanks for the video.
Markco
November 12th, 2009 3:13 am
Awesome post, I can’t wait to implement it on http://mybumbusiness.blogspot.com
BloggerGirl
November 13th, 2009 12:57 am
Useful tips but…
It is easier if you blog in english or Chinese :P
BUT! how can u get so many readers if you blog in the language which is spoken by 4 000 000 people?
Womens Social Network
November 13th, 2009 2:48 am
This is great to suggest. I will use it on my womens social networking site I have started. We can see how it works for the blog section.
Prayer Requessts
November 13th, 2009 3:26 am
We have a blog too! ITs a prayer blog and this may help them there too. Its a good article you have written and I will bookmark it!
Thanks.
Will
November 13th, 2009 1:54 pm
Very Useful stuff here. I did have a comment of sorts. It almost seems no matter how many tips (from the pros) you try, if you are not liked by Google you will never get seen. I know of a company that is relatively close to Google (location wise) and the owners happen to eat lunch at same restaurant as Google big wigs (they chat often). Their website is really not very relevant, but they show up in the #1 spot on Google (with a half as* website). So, I did some research and it seems this is the case in many instances.
scheng1
November 16th, 2009 1:47 pm
Yes, some points are very practical and useful to bloggers
zaaylo creeper
December 6th, 2009 9:29 pm
This video is just awesome! great information sharing. Good work mate.
Barabara Tesmar
December 23rd, 2009 1:46 am
This is really first rate. Can’t wait for new posts from you. Thank you so much for this.
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