You’re in a position to really help me out.

As I proceed to plan the future of Tell Ten Friends, I wanted to conduct some very vital market research. I have a survey about marketing, that takes about 2 minutes to complete.

With your help, I’d like to forward it to as many Business Owners and marketing decision makers as possible. (preferably businesses with less than $30 M per year in sales) I can’t do this alone, so please help out by forwarding it “ten friends” if you can think of that many.

I realize that the easy thing to do is skip this over, but it would make a big difference in the future of my company, so please forward on this marketing survey.

If it’s easier, here’s the link in full; so you can copy and paste it into an email:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=628672147583

Thanks in advance, all of you who helped me out on this.

Update: I’ve gotten a few responses, but I need more. That’s why I put in this otherwise useless update…to give me an excuse to republish this post.

MySpace accounts for 10% of the traffic to telltenfriends.com, and a little over 5% here to the blog.
Not bad for free.

How in the hell Craigslist makes any money?

It’s the single-most effective online advertising tool on the web today, as far as I’m concerned. And it’s totally free. It’s conspicuously free of any ad support whatsoever, and I use it as the shining example whenever I try to explain to someone why user-driven content is king right now. (MySpace isn’t for everybody, after all)

The other night I put on ad in the Vancouver vehicle classifieds on the site, and within minutes my phone was ringing, and I was getting emails like crazy. First thing the next morning, I guy came by and gave me my full asking price for my car; while my phone kept ringing. I had to rush upstairs after he left to delete the ad, but still the calls came trickling in.

I subscribe to the RSS feeds for work leads as well, and if things ever slow down for me, you can bet I’ll be posting ads for Tell Ten Friends‘ services as well.

I just can’t believe that after getting so much value from a site, I have yet to pay a nickel, or be subjected to even one banner ad with talking emoticons, etc.

I guess what I’m saying is, I love Craigslist. I even like how when you bookmark it, it leaves a little “peace sign” icon. Maybe it will be free forever.

Peace and love, Craig.