Well crap. I read a post by Aaron Wall of SEO Book on putting your ideas to paper (or whatever the appropriate implementation would be in your case) before someone else does last week and thought to myself, «man, that has happened to me a lot.» And I mean a lot. I just came across an example of someone posting their idea, a while after I had thought about it. But really, it was my fault.

The example is an idea that I’ve been playing around with in my head for a while. Basically, to promote your business to your demographic by placing your business card (I am thinking now that a postcard may be better) into magazines and books that your target audience would read. You could do that at a bookstore, Wal-Mart, the convenience store, wherever. It’s a little spammy, I know, but the idea is still there.

Well today I found a post by Gyutae Park of Winning The Web, where he outlines this perfectly.

I made a mistake here that I hope to not repeat. First, as much as I probably will never try the idea, it would still have made a decent post. Second, I let the cat out of the bag before I had actually posted anything with a comment on Freelance Switch about a month before Gyutae’s post. I highly doubt Gyutae stole the idea from me, but I really should have posted on the idea, and then linked to that post within that same comment.

To be honest though, the post by Gyutae is actually pretty damn good. Maybe better than I would have compiled. So I suggest you at least check it out. In the right market I think it may work for some.

But the fact remains the same. If you have an idea, at least expand on it. Don’t let someone else get it before you do.

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