By the way, I assume the 1435 visitors is significantly overstated. Since I think google is counting computers via cookies or some other means... Which means the readers with multiple computers, or those that keep their computers really clean will be counted multiple times. My best guess is I have ~100 regular readers on blogspot, ~10 more via my facebook account....
Any good cheap marketing thoughts?
Advice welcome as always !!!
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I don't worry to much about stats. My best ever month was when I transcripted Dennis Pager's announcement that he was getting divorced. Apparently I was the only such source and people all over Google'd their way to my door.
But if you want more exposure, I'd suggest maybe Twitter'ing when you publish. That's how I follow a number of the sites I like.
The stats in themselves do not concern me as much as the few RAS citizens that seem to care about their public school system. (ie not just their school, sport, activity, salary, taxes, etc) Or I should correct that... They may care, however not enough to actually show up at the budget cutting meeting, show up at the facility divestiture meeting, read related sites, etc. Thus we continue to see the same limited number of friendly faces at these events.
It drives me crazy when people continue to be surprised !!! and appalled !!! When RAS, SUN news and us bloggers are working so hard to keep people informed. It is definitely true that "it is impossible to communicate to someone who is not listening"...
The twitter'ing is a good idea, however I really want to attract new concerned RAS citizens, not necessarily the folks that already regularly check in. I am happy if they only do this a few times a month on their schedule.
Thanks for the idea !!!!
By the way, I understand that most of us have a limited number of discretionary hours in our days. Therefore we must choose where to spend them. In my case, I know absolutely nothing about the Mgmt of the city of Plymouth.
I don't spend my time there because it seems pretty stable, under control and the results are good. Whereas the RAS district is unstable, constantly changing and the results are mixed due to many reasons.
Since there are kid's futures, community's futures, property taxes and home values at stake. I would think many more would be interested and involved. Civic focus does seem a bit low in our current American culture. I wonder what will changes this?
didn't even think to look for you on Facebook. You need to ask your regulars to "fan" you and write a post about your site.
Hi Leslie,
I am torn about pumping up my Facebook side.... Unfortunately it is only a one way feed...
This means that my G2A blog shows up on my wall.. (or whatever that thing is called) I forgot to mention, I am pretty much facebook illiterate. (check out my farm if you do not believe me...) I got the account to keep an "eye" on the girl's accounts.
But I digress, so Facebook mirrors G2A blogspot. However, comments on Facebook never make it back to blogspot... In summary, I end up with 2 discussions going sometimes. Not good or bad, just confusing at times.
Thanks for the idea.
It seems a number of us blog or otherwise study and comment on the Robbinsdale Area Schools. Maybe we need a consolidated source, like True North.
As you probably know, I am a contributor to LookTrueNorth.com ("True North"), which no doubt drives traffic to my site.
Picture a "TrueRAS" site, with you, me, NumbersGuy, DJ, and others, and Twitter each post like True North does. Picture handing out flyers at Board meetings and especially these budget hearings that would list a few headlines and links to "TrueRAS" for the details.
In the spirit of G2A, we keep it nice, assuming RAS will cooperate with us in answering questions and providing computer files of documents, etc. But review and editing has to be fast to keep the site current.
Think about it.
I didn't mean to use Facebook as a duplicate of your blog...use Facebook to ask your "Friends": "if you enjoy reading my blog and find it informative, help others find me by posting something about it on your wall and including a link - thanks!" in fact you could just paste this there ;0) Maybe a few busy 281 parents might check it out. There's your cheap marketing -- word of mouth.
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