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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
I started writing the blog because I would talk peoiple's ears off about the book I just read and thy would tell me I was going over their heads and giving them too much information. My wife specifically! ha! She told me to write down my observations on what I read.
I have seen it grow. I only track "new" hits. Originally I was stoked to see 10 new hits a week from around the world. Now I get upwards of 100 hits a week. All for a blog reviewing books that no one gives a shit about.... ha!
It is tricky to begin, but once the ball is rolling, and you are writing about things you love, it becomes second nature.
I share the latest review on the book and here and on twitter but not a lot of actual marketing.
still, mine gets a good amount of traffic for an esoteric blog about paper books. I get a thrill out of seeing anew country listed in the "audience." Places like Belarus, Turks & Caicos, Malaysia, etc.
Thanks for checking it out guys...
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Yeah, I started mine because I'd do the same thing with my music talk. Nobody really wanted to hear it in my "real" life. Not even my girlfriend. But it's hard to talk to people about music when most people are kind of only passively into it. I, on the other hand, am downright fucking obsessive about it and always have been. Throw in the fact that I have such strong opinions about so many different types of music, and that half of the genres I listen to sound like shit to so many people, and it becomes extremely frustrating. I put a lot of work into it the first year, and got some nice responses, but I think I actually put too much time into it. I was letting things in my life lapse. So I backed off out of necessity, and because none of it was very good.
Meh.