Promoting Your Stuff on Permies for FREE!

Promote Your Stuff

You have a book you would like to promote? An article, or blog post, that you feel might be of use to the Permies community and would like to share? Maybe a workshop, conference or PDC to announce? Maybe you want our community to be away of your product for sale?

You can!

Permies is a site for the benefit of its members. So as a member of the community, Permies wants to help you promote your useful stuff. Promoting your useful stuff is not only good for you, but it benefits
everyone else in the Permies community that finds your stuff useful.

Guidelines

In order to be useful, your content should be:

Relevant to permaculture or homesteading;

Accurate and complete; and

In English (just like Permies posts).

If you are going to post a link to your stuff located elsewhere than Permies, please be sure to describe what you are linking to and why someone would want to click on the link.

Here's how to do it wrong when posting a reply to someone's question:

Hey, I wrote about that in my blog at http://attention-grabber.com/look-at-me.html

Here's one way to do it right:

Hey, I wrote an article on building a swale in cold climate at http://useful-content.com/cold-swale.html.

In the article, I describe how I levelled the bottom of the swale and what plants I planted on the swale. I also show pictures of the evolution of the swale over a 5 years period.

Notice the difference?

The first example is indistinguishable from spam. It doesn't tell anyone what the link is about, and all it does is to drive traffic away from Permies. It's not what a good community member should do.

The second example has two important differences:

It states what the link is about in close proximity to the link (good for searching); and

It follows up with a summary that informs the reader whether the content might be useful or not.

NOT A LICENSE TO SPAM

Your post will be subject to removal as spam if it can be:

Interpreted as spam;

Really is spam;

Is not deemed to be offered in the spirit of being part of the Permies community; and

Doesn't meet the posting guidelines.

Books or Movies

We especially encourage authors to promote their books or movies. See this page for a book and this page for a movie example of what we would like to see.

Some things we like to see on a book or movie's page:

An image of the book or movie's cover;

Author's photo;

Any other images appropriate for the book including: the back cover, sample figures or diagrams from the book;

Screenshots from the movie

The book's Table of Contents; and

Any other appropriate information.

We also like seeing links such as:

Link to the publisher's page;

Link to the Amazon page;

Link to free sample chapters or previews (if any);

Link to the Author's bio;

Link to the book or movie's Permies Staff review (if any);

Link to the Author's blog (if any);

any other appropriate links;

Where to Post

Depending on what your stuff is related to, you can post in the Global Ressources forum in the appropriate section (books, DVDs, movies, videos and documentaries,web sites, products,resources: seeds, plants, honey, consulting, etc.)


Many other forms of free advertising you can do:

• make a media rich thread about your organization/website/book/thing/whatever
        - if you buy a piece of pie, you can add your thread to more forums
        - every reply to your thread, bumps it to the top of our home page!
              - put our social media icon on your site and link it to your thread so it gets bumped more! More posts and more views also adds to the thread score, which improves the odds that it will appear on the "best" column and in the periodic digest "interesting threads you might have missed."
• offering freebies to our pie people gets you listed to our heavily advertised pie program!
• offering freebies through our daily-ish email
• put a link to your stuff in your signature and write lots of excellent posts!
• offer stuff in our book/dvd/event/pie promotions
• get your stuff lined up for a review. Provide some of your stuff to our reviewers: book reviews
• give your stuff to some of our staff and hope that they talk about it a lot
• check out our paid advertising stuff below and arrange a media trade. Banner-for-banner, or mailing-list mention for mailing-list mention, etc.
• if we like your stuff, and you set it up in our Digital Market forum with a 40% affiliate fee, we might advertise the hell out of it. (example)

We also have a list for paid advertising.