Just to be clear, I'm just the submitter, this isn't my blog.
Also when I looked at the article originally it did _not_ have that link in the first sentence. Google Cache won't load for me but here's a screenshot of the preview from Google: http://cl.ly/1h2w0I413X063l3e0Z2k
"You don't "pitch" thousands of users, you just reach them and let your product pitch them for you."
These are the same thing. Just because you're not taking each potential customer to a steak dinner, it doesn't mean you're not selling them. I don't see how you get customers without showing them the benefits of your product. No matter what the medium is (blogging, advertising, interviews, SEO) - Pitching, selling, it's all the same thing.
"I talked to 100 clients last week and got 1 client."
"Let's try for 500 clients this week. 100 clients per day is more than doable," you tell yourself.
"I'll up my calls to 150 per day, and direct mail the rest to reach 2000 contacts this week."
"2000 contacts produces 20 new clients."
I dunno, "talking", "calling", and "direct mailing" in volume sound significantly different (and way more time consuming) than SEO, mass marketing, and word of mouth. Just different enough that a programmer can make time for the latter but not the former.
Hopefully it goes through. Same thing happened to me, only instead of a confirmation email I got an email saying the domain was actually already taken. curses.
Also when I looked at the article originally it did _not_ have that link in the first sentence. Google Cache won't load for me but here's a screenshot of the preview from Google: http://cl.ly/1h2w0I413X063l3e0Z2k