Ad Mavericks

So I happened upon this great blog the other day, Fuel Lines – Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media, which is written by Michael Gass @michaelgass. Now I’m a sucker for a good blog about social media, and I’m a bigger sucker for smart ideas that capitalize on social media’s strength.

According to StatBrain, Fuel Lines get about 4,800 visits per day. Michael also has over 10,000 followers on Twitter so he’s doing something right.

Looks like Michael has a “Blog of the Month” thing going, where you can submit a blog to be voted on for November honors.

Did I also mention I’m a sucker for shameless promotion? So I submit our blog and three days later, sure enough, there are the AdMavericks listed with 44 other blogs that have been submitted. The vote is based on the following question:

“Which of these 45 ad agency blogs best understands social media?”

The reason this is so brilliant is that Michael probably knows that posts like the one you are reading now are bound to happen. People will tweet about it, Facebook statuses will be updated, you get the picture. If you get 45 blogs to vote for, and all of the blogs are about social media, what do you think will happen?  My guess it that traffic to Fuel Lines is going to spike big and bad. I wish I had thought of it.

I’m officially launching our Vote AdMavericks campaign. Here are several campaign promises and reasons why we think you should vote for us. If one of these makes sense to you, I encourage you to go here and vote for the AdMavericks.

We are the only Iowa blog on there and Iowan’s love their own. The east coast and west coast don’t expect the winner to be from the “No-Coast” – put them in an Iowa state of mind.

You compete with Lessing-Flynn. That’s right, you might even be an ad agency in Des Moines. But, given the fact that we talk about other ad agencies and link to their blogs and twitter pages, additional traffic coming to your site wouldn’t be bad, even if it’s from the AdMavericks.

This isn’t your first rodeo with the AdMavericks. You like the content, you come back and read us from time to time. If you really like it, tell others by voting for us.

We spoke at Highlight Midwest last week and essentially told the AdMavericks story. You can see the PowerPoint on SlideShare but here are the highlights. Since this blog started in January 2009 we’ve received:

20,000 blog views (2000 views per month)
Syndication on CNN.com and The Chicago Sun Times
Been ranked in the top 1% of all blogs by Technorati
Featured as one of WordPress’s fastest growing blogs on multiple occassions.
Selected by AllTop as one of the top marketing blogs.

Now we may be tooting our own horn here but this is a campaign and we won’t lower ourselves to bash the other candidates. Plus, the AdMavericks are registered Independents as well. I made that up.

So, if you can do anything to help rock the Vote for Ad Mavericks campaign we’d appreciate it. We’d appreciate it more if you told us what you did as well. Something like tweeting: “I voted for @AdMavericks on Fueling New Business (with the link)” would be stellar! We’ll be sure to provide our thanks back in droves!

Come on Iowa, lets show them that Iowa, yes Iowa, has social media game! Again, please vote here!

Author: Josh Fleming
www.lessingflynn.com
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