I don’t care if only 50 people read my blog
There’s debate/discussion and “woe is me” navel gazing going on in working class blogville. Some of us are very frustrated we don’t get more readers or more links or that the A-listers don’t link to us. Well, we all have different reasons for blogging and I can’t speak for others. (But, as Meryl Streep once observed, “Real Life is actually a lot more like high school.” Classes and cliques aren’t going away any time soon; it’s a human thang. Deal.)
Personally, I’d hate to think nobody drops by my little on-line office but when all is said, done and typed, I don’t obsess about how many people read my blog (or my comments on others). The reason I blog is to connect, start the conversation, give food for thought to my clients. And, I have some fun here and there too. So, if only 50 read on any given day - that’s 50 with whom I might otherwise never connect.
To demonstrate - here’s a what a client (that I met through blogging) wrote without my previous knowledge, request or encouragement. Wow! This kind of unexpected appreciation makes my day!
So, I’ll continue to tend my little patch of blogville and leave the belly-button pontifications to others. (Did I mention I’m like number 45,324 according to Technorati? heh. I do feel compelled, however, to note that they don’t list about 1/2 of the links I know that I have, so there. See? I’m not totally immune to the fascinations of gazing deep into my own navel.) (Update, April 2007: I’m now up around 15,000 and something. Out of 70 million, that’s not too bad.)
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August 28th, 2006 at 5:49 pm
I’m with you on that!
Appreciation is the medicine of the future… it makes life work..
The Queen
August 28th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
Well I love your blog!! Happy to be one of your fifty fans.
August 28th, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Good for you! Keep writing the good write, and I think you’ll be fine. My favorite part of your blog is your Friday rants. Keep up this little patch, and we’ll keep reading Mary!
August 28th, 2006 at 7:10 pm
You mean I’m one of only 50?!?!?!?! Doh!
August 28th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
It’s about quality, not quantity.
August 29th, 2006 at 3:55 am
I don’t care if only 50 persons read my blog…
Article pertinent sur la ncessit d’tre lu pour un blogueur ;)) — en anglais…
August 29th, 2006 at 7:09 am
Actually, I think more than 50 people drop by, but you get the point! Indeed, it’s quality - not quantity. For example, do I really want to appeal to the same deep thinkers who read and support A-lister Michelle Malkin? Shudder…those people are scary.
Since I started blogging, my traffic has gone from hundreds to thousands of visitors a month and they stay a lot longer. Which illsutrates one of the very real business benefits of blogging.
August 29th, 2006 at 8:28 am
Usually we say that things come when you expect them the less ! If we write for us, readers will come. I might take some time but they will definitely come and if you put some of you in your post, they will stay and stay…for a long !
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November 16th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
Mary - Nothing like a better-late-than-never comment, but I wasn’t even blogging (reading, commenting, or writing, other than looking at a friend’s blog) when you posted this entry, but you are spot-on when you talk some of the emotions it engenders. (And looking at Technorati - yech: Talk about high-school: it’s like getting a 400 on your SAT.) Overall, however, I’m getting a great deal of enjoyment out of blogging. I have certainly found an interesting community of business and marketing bloggers, with lots of good insight to share. (I must say that marketing bloggers seem nicer and more generous on average. I’ve gotten slagged a few times on some business blogs for being too bleeding-heart when the business conversations turned political. Come one, Nancy Pelosi is really not the love child of Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg.) And for all of us, let’s acknowledge that it’s a creative outlet.
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