books, marketing, oprah

The Internet works again

Take a look at how Chris Rose’s fortune changes (again) regarding his interesting experience with Oprah’s show in As not read by Oprah. It’s a classic let-my-horrible-personal-experience-scream-about-my-new-book marketing play.

It was pure linkbait (hell, I took it). Now all the search engines will see his name and title near Oprah’s name on top of thousands of incoming links — in other words, he’ll still sell millions. That’s all it takes these days.