[prpon]

May be I've become cynical but

90% of the email I get in my personal account is from people/startups/companies selling me stuff.

90% of the twitter stream is people pimping their wares (either blog posts or products they endorse).

90% of my facebook wall is filled with inane things.

May be the only way to be successful is to constantly sell yourself and your products.

I haven't viewed the world this way until I started friending and networking with entrepreneurs.

I keep telling myself, there has to be a better way, there has to be..

[dasil003]

> May be the only way to be successful is to constantly sell yourself and your products.

Don't worry it's not. This is just the echo-chamber path to success, and it's a crowded one. It might be easier to get hipsters to try something new, but it's just that much harder to get them to actually stick with anything. Another path to success is to be in touch with the 99.99% of people that aren't "early adopters" and figure out a way to make a product that they like.

Twitter did the former, Facebook did the latter.

[enjo]

For the first one (email), gmails priority inbox is amazing. In practice I tune out those sales emails unless I decide to go through the effort of actually looking for them... it's better than just sending them to spam, as I do actually want to read them sometimes.