{"id":499,"date":"2008-07-24T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2008\/07\/im-going-viral-250-free-galleys-of-my-next-book-available.html"},"modified":"2008-07-24T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T15:37:00","slug":"im-going-viral-250-free-galleys-of-my-next-book-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/im-going-viral-250-free-galleys-of-my-next-book-available\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m Going Viral: 250 Free Galleys of My Next Book Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gillin.com\/\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=113&amp;Itemid=126\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 218px;\" src=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/images\/stories\/ssmm_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the spirit of viral marketing, and with my publisher&#8217;s enthusiastic consent, I&#8217;m giving away 250 copies of my new book, <i>Secrets Of Social Media Marketing<\/i>,  to anyone who fills out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillin.com\/\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=113&amp;Itemid=126\">this form on my website<\/a>.  I\u2019m betting that if people start talking about the book before it reaches the shelves, it will be good for sales. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to take credit for the idea, but it was actually proposed me by my friend and colleague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmeermanscott.com\/\">David Meerman Scott<\/a>, who co-authored <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tuned-Extraordinary-Opportunities-Business-Breakthroughs\/dp\/047026036X\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1216845640&amp;sr=1-1\">Tuned In<\/a><\/i>, a business book that has been number one on Amazon several times in the last few weeks. Scott\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmeermanscott.com\/books.htm\"><i>New Rules of Marketing and PR <\/i><\/a>was the number one marketing book of 2007 on Amazon, so if it&#8217;s good enough for him..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of viral marketing, and with my publisher&#8217;s enthusiastic consent, I&#8217;m giving away 250 copies of my new book, Secrets Of Social Media Marketing, to anyone who fills out this form on my website. I\u2019m betting that if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/im-going-viral-250-free-galleys-of-my-next-book-available\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[59],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-83","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}