As my sites have become more popular, I’ve been contacted by an ever-increasing amount of people interested in whether I’d write about their company (or more often, the company they’re paid to promote). And generally they use email templates headed ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear TheWayoftheWeb’, and it’s about something completely irrelevant to the topics I blog about.
So I don’t often do it.
But there are some worthwhile exceptions. In this case, the agency employed to raise interest in company/individual professional site Worky.com. Not only did I get a concise and accurate email addressed to me, but they’d used Youtube in a quick and free way to make the outreach even more personal. (Disclosure: I already knew a couple of people at the agency concerned, including a founder, which is probably why I made it onto their list). Plus I got quick responses to my email questions back, and a promo code I can share with you all.
And it’s obviously worked.
What is Worky, and are there free promo codes?
So Worky is ‘a place for your to promote your work life’, which involves creating a profile, connecting with companies and other users, and seems pretty similar to other career-minded sites (LinkedIn and Gist spring immediately to mind).
There’s some potentially useful features, such as a lot of analytics regarding your profile to aim at raising it in search rankings (And in the process, raise Worky up as well). I have to admit, I haven’t quite found the features that make it stand out as yet, but the founder is interesting serial entrepreneur, and it seems to do reasonably well in search results, for example.
So it’s interesting enough to be worth registering for. And rather than the standard free account, if you sign up to Worky via this link, and use the code ‘workypromo’, you’ll get to try the full paid version of the service. As always, I’d be interested in hearing what other people think…