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 Author: Timothy_Smith View Messages Posted By Timothy_Smith
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 13:09
 Subject: BL 2.0 needs media attention
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 Topic: Suggestions
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Timothy_Smith (1537)

Location:  USA, Colorado
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A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.
 Author: baroness1 View Messages Posted By baroness1
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 13:17
 Subject: Re: BL 2.0 needs media attention
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baroness1 (3297)

Location:  USA, Arizona
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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
  A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.

good idea. Don't have any suggestions thought
 Author: kzinti View Messages Posted By kzinti
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 13:24
 Subject: Re: BL 2.0 needs media attention
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kzinti (4924)

Location:  USA, Missouri
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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
  A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.

Part of the reason is because they set the site off limits to spiders due to
the server load and multi-frame pages. once we get into a new format, this may
go away. Definite need in my opinion for direct advertising. Even eBay has national
TV ads and they've been around longer than we have.

I'm about 30 days behind schedule, but I'm working on a huge marketing/advertising
event for my store. I'll post details when it's ready to kickoff. A lot
of time, effort and money involved. Hope it pays off.
 Author: Kevin.NXT View Messages Posted By Kevin.NXT
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 13:58
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Kevin.NXT (363)

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 Author: goshe7 View Messages Posted By goshe7
 Posted: Jul 21, 2013 14:15
 Subject: Re: BL 2.0 needs media attention
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goshe7 (1120)

Location:  USA, Ohio
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In Suggestions, Timothy_Smith writes:
  A member points out that Google News has one lone link to a BrickLink-related
story.
That story refers to BL as "an eBay for Legos". I believe we can do better than
that.

Yes. We can contact Google News and demand they stop using the word "eBay" without
permission.

It is good that a google search for "buy used lego" returns the sponsored link
BrickLink. That's an improvement over when I first joined. But there is
still a ways to go to have a good media footprint.