[gk1]

Blogging is always on my list.

It's almost like cheating. A well planned and written article can get you thousands of visits from relevant people to your site. Then some of them visit your main site, some of them sign up for your service, some share your site with their colleagues, etc.

For example, a recent blog post I wrote to help promote my own consulting service brought in ~15,300 visits over this past weekend. The post before that brought ~10,000 visits. A post for a company I work with brought them ~30,000 visits in a day... You get the idea.

[longneckdeer]

I think a reasonable follow up question is how did you market your blog posts so successfully?

[gk1]

Nothing complicated... Just posting on relevant subreddits, HN, Designer News, etc.

I think the more important (and far more difficult) part is writing an article that's interesting enough that it doesn't need a lot of work or trickery to get visits.