This article is over 4500 words long. If you’re in a rush you’ll probably want to come back to it later.
The start of the blog
One evening in the summer of 2007 Sam was round and I showed him a site I’d recently discovered called www.stevepavlina.com. It was an amazing self-improvement site with all these articles [...]
Eleven days earlier than projected, I’ve ended the blog promotion trial.
Why the early ending?
As I commented earlier in the trial, there isn’t enough to do in an hour each day. Though I could make it one hour every three days for thirty hours it would be too spread out to really give any conclusive results [...]
Day 12
One comment: http://hunternuttall.com/blog/2008/11/the-long-and-short-of-it/
Day 12 was for me the most important day of the trail in that by God I did not want to do any promotion on that day. There were no particular intervening circumstances: it’s just that I was really hard pressed to find anything worth doing for promotion and by twenty minutes [...]
Twitter
I have one more follower.
Guest Post
I wrote more of the latest guest post.
Other thoughts
I spent the first part of the hour searching through blogs in Google Reader for articles to make early quality comments for, but I came up short. The same went for personal development forums.
It seems that after 11 hours of promotion in [...]
Twitter
I’m losing track of the number of new Twitter followers. I’ve been getting two of three new followers a day, and this is without doing any tweeting or extra following.
Guest posting
I spent today’s hour writing a guest post, which is pretty tongue-in-cheek but will certainly have a valid message fleshed out once it’s completed. For [...]
Forums
http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums/personal-effectiveness/24888-should-i-drop-out.html
The above link is to a thread in which I posted a long and thoughtful reply. After writing it I found I could expand and flesh it out into an article for the site, which hopefully I’ll send off to Sam tomorrow. This was really promotion at its best. Hopefully my comment was a real [...]
I started the hour by having a go at searching for new blog carnivals and commenting, both to no avail. It took about five minutes with each to see that neither was going to work out. New blog carnivals weren’t available yet and it still hasn’t been quite long enough to have many new articles [...]
Twitter
Now following four more twitter users with pretty famous blogs. I expect it to have no effect on blog traffic whatsoever, but, hey, why not? I found it has another value anyway. Want to find more blogs you’ll like? Just make a Twitter account and check out who your favorite bloggers are following. Through going [...]
Hungry, I have a cold and 3000 words to write for my Renaissance Literature module by the 11th. I push on with the trial. The Rich Life carnival is up and the article I submitted was featured: Rich Life Carnival 18. Updates about carnivals appear in the News section of the blog, but for this [...]
First up, a usual Reaching a Better Place article is coming. The usual articles will keep appearing during the trial (though perhaps at slightly lower frequency). My deadline for the most pressing work here at uni is the 11th, after the 11/11/08 things will be much closer to the usual (except there will be a [...]
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