Why & How: The story of MediaMilitia.com - By Dustin Ring

4. Over 500K viewers / month

5. Over 14TB of downloads / month

8. Standard Promotion Sites: Digg, StumbleUpon, TheWebBlend, Delicious, etc… Create a procedure to submit to sites and fans

9. Find other ways to promote!

10. Make it Sticky

11. Study Your Analytics

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13. There are over 22 million WordPress publishers as of February 2010. 10.6 million blogs hosted on WordPress.com plus 11.4 million active installations of the WordPress.org software.

14. According to Quantcast, around 250 million people visit one or more WordPress.com blogs every month, and they view over two billion pages on those blogs.

16. Great Content Builds a Community.

17. Find your promoters.

18. Engage and interact.

20. One of the secrets to success is having contributors.

21. People naturally want to help.

22. Look for potential contributors.

23. WordPress makes it easy!

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25. Create a backlog of articles.

28. In-post advertising

29. Text Links

30. Giveaways and Contests

32. Is there a Return on Investment?

33. Getting stuff for free saves you money

34. Shutterstock – Blogger Program John D. Mackinph. 646.710.3412 johnm@shutterstock.com

35. The More Money, the Bigger the Site

37. Keep your content up-to-date.

38. Too much creative freedomcan actually hinder the creation process.

39. Keeping inspired…

41. Look at the larger sites Get a moleskine and take notes of everything Spend time outside of WordPress Add new plugins to WordPress