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Forgive me for being rather curt and blunt but... have you showed other people who aren't your friends?

by JonLim 14y ago

nonrecursive 14y ago
Not curt and blunt at all - it's a very good question. Yep I have, though I haven't done any real marketing. Over the past few months I've come to realize that's one of my real hurdles - marketing is just not one of my skills. I'm not sure where to begin with it, though I plan on learning. I mostly share on sites like this, reddit, and forrst. Next week I'm going to be presenting Whoops in a lightning talk to a local Ruby group, which isn't something I've done in awhile and which I'm very mentally resistant to. Maybe it's all just a matter of not having the right knowledge or experience. Programming is easy - I always feel like if I can't see the path I'll eventually be able to find it. Same with UI/UX. Not so with marketing, getting feedback, and iterating.
- engtech 14y ago
  Aaron SW's latest series of articles have informative about tackling the hard problems. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve Made to Stick is an excellent read on the subject of branding and marketing. http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/ http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/ I used to run a blog in 2008 and I got it to 6.5million page views before I quit it and I was featured in the book "Blogging Heroes" along with the founders of Lifehacker, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Boing Boing. My key strategy when I was growing my blog was to find existing communities that would like what I was writing and then build relationships with those communities.
  - nonrecursive 14y ago
    Thanks for the leads! I will check those out. If you don't mind my asking, what made you quit your blog?
    - engtech 14y ago
      It was a huge time sink. I stopped blogging when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and getting away from "trying to be popular on the internet" gave me the distance to see that I wasn't getting anything out of it. I also changed jobs to something more interesting and now that's where I put my passion instead of a hobby.
      - nonrecursive 14y ago
        Wow - I hope your mom is doing better. Thanks for sharing what you went through and I'm glad you found something better to focus your energy on.

Forgive me for being rather curt and blunt but... have you showed other people who aren't your friends?

by JonLim 14y ago

Forgive me for being rather curt and blunt but... have you showed other people who aren't your friends?

Not curt and blunt at all - it's a very good question. Yep I have, though I haven't done any real marketing. Over the past few months I've come to realize that's one of my real hurdles - marketing is just not one of my skills. I'm not sure where to begin with it, though I plan on learning. I mostly share on sites like this, reddit, and forrst. Next week I'm going to be presenting Whoops in a lightning talk to a local Ruby group, which isn't something I've done in awhile and which I'm very mentally resistant to. Maybe it's all just a matter of not having the right knowledge or experience. Programming is easy - I always feel like if I can't see the path I'll eventually be able to find it. Same with UI/UX. Not so with marketing, getting feedback, and iterating.

engtech 14y ago
Aaron SW's latest series of articles have informative about tackling the hard problems. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve Made to Stick is an excellent read on the subject of branding and marketing. http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/ http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/ I used to run a blog in 2008 and I got it to 6.5million page views before I quit it and I was featured in the book "Blogging Heroes" along with the founders of Lifehacker, Engadget, Ars Technica, Gizmodo and Boing Boing. My key strategy when I was growing my blog was to find existing communities that would like what I was writing and then build relationships with those communities.
- nonrecursive 14y ago
  Thanks for the leads! I will check those out. If you don't mind my asking, what made you quit your blog?
  - engtech 14y ago
    It was a huge time sink. I stopped blogging when my mom was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and getting away from "trying to be popular on the internet" gave me the distance to see that I wasn't getting anything out of it. I also changed jobs to something more interesting and now that's where I put my passion instead of a hobby.
    - nonrecursive 14y ago
      Wow - I hope your mom is doing better. Thanks for sharing what you went through and I'm glad you found something better to focus your energy on.