Mack Collier’s Z-Lister Meme Catches Fire
Entrepreneurs network and seek opportunities. At least successful ones do.
I’ve kept an idea on Mack Collier’s Z-Lister Meme for the last week or so and I’ve watched it explode. Makes sense. It’s easy for people to do, and it’s now hitting a tipping point where it’s creating an incredible number of links to all sorts of blogs. And we all know how valuable links are, right? Not as valuable as a buck in the bank, but darn close.
All you need to do is take the list below, copy and paste it with all the links into your own blog post and if you choose, add additional blogs to the list. I’m surprised we haven’t seen any double entries, but that shows you that people are really looking at the lists and checking them twice. The list keeps growing and growing, as more and more bloggers add to it on their own posts. And everyone gets more and more links.
For entrepreneurs looking to generate some buzz there are some interesting lessons:
- If you want something to catch on, make it easy.
- Appeal to the feisty nature in people. Go controversial or for the underdog.
- When you see something take hold, push it forward as hard as you can.
I’ve added a few bloggers to the bottom of the list to push the Z-Lister Meme forward. Enjoy.
Creative Think
Soloride
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
One Reader at a Time
100 Bloggers
Critical Fluff
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzz
Work, in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
The Instigator Blog
AENDirect
Diva Marketing
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
Mindblob
OrbitNow!
Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Andy Nulman
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Darren Barefoot
Two Hat Marketing
The Engaging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
Conversation Agent
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Carpe Factum
Steve’s 2 Cents
Simplicity
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Make it Great!
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
Urban Jacksonville
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com
Home Biz Notes
Small Business Boomers
Success From The Nest
Levite Chronicles
Happy Holidays!
Tags: blogging, blogs, mack-collier, technorati, weblogs, z-list-meme, zlistPOSTED IN: Online Business, Web 2.0
12 opinions for Mack Collier’s Z-Lister Meme Catches Fire
Michael Wagner
Dec 22, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Mack is a great friend and community builder!
Your summary of what it takes to make something “catch fire” is dead on.
It’s an honor to be on the zlist - thanks for including Own Your Brand.
Keep creating,
Mike
Ben Yoskovitz
Dec 22, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Hey Michael - glad to help support Own Your Own Brand. Happy Holidays.
Michelle Golden
Dec 23, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Ben, thanks so much for mentioning Golden Practices. I look forward to reciprocating! There’s a lot of good reading here!
Michelle
GP
Dec 23, 2006 at 5:18 pm
greetings and happy holidays all! Just starting to navigate thru the blogosphere.. looking forward to my first Carnival entry next week :)
Newbie ? here… how does one get “memed”.? I can definitely put these links to my blog but then?? thanx all
for assistance here
GP in Montana
Ben Yoskovitz
Dec 23, 2006 at 7:58 pm
GP - best thing to do is take the list here and copy it to your blog. That’ll let those people and others know that you’re participating. Eventually someone will add your blog to the list and then you’ll start seeing more and more links coming your way.
Good luck!
Ben Yoskovitz
Dec 23, 2006 at 8:05 pm
Michelle - thanks for stopping by - I’m just following the lead of other great Z-listers who have spread the meme like crazy!
GP
Dec 23, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Thanx .. should i edit/copy the source code for links?
GP in Montana
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Ben Yoskovitz
Dec 24, 2006 at 8:01 am
GP - you don’t really need to edit the source but you could. As long as you display the full list and the links work to each person’s blog you’re fine. You could modify the source to add bullets, or other formatting if you wanted.
GP
Dec 24, 2006 at 8:28 pm
greetings, what i meant is that I just cant do an edit/select copy from the blog page, or it’ll just be text rather than the links… correct?
merry merry
GP in Montana
Ben Yoskovitz
Dec 24, 2006 at 9:17 pm
GP - that’s true.
If you’re using Firefox you can select the text/links (hold the mouse button down and scroll over it / highlight it), right-click and view-source.
If you’re using IE you have to View Source (right-click), find the source where the links start and copy and paste. Bit cumbersome but not overly complicated.
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