I am so embarrassed. I just figured out how to keep track of how much action my blog is getting. I'm actually a little surprised because, as I've said several times, I feel like it would make no difference if I was writing in a diary. However, when I finally managed to click on the stats button I found that my blog has been viewed 347 times since the middle of August.
I've discovered a new world of stats that I'm actually interested in...and it's kind of fun to look at! You can see how many "page views" you've had that day, week, month, and over time. You can track what search terms have led people to find your blog, which pages have click-throughs to your blog, and which posts are attracting the most initial attention. So, for instance...big shout out to Margaret Austen because her blog has been a source of several click throughs to my blog. http://www.thomasandmargaret.blogspot.com/ By the way, if you are interested in reading about a crazy life, read her blog. Margaret is Married to Thomas Austen, former Clemson football star who is trying to break into the NFL world...they are living like nomads right now and Margaret is great at describing that lifestyle. Check her out.
You can also see what country your blog is getting hits in. OK, I KNOW that this has absolutely no reflection on the influence my blog really has in the blogosphere, but y'all someone has viewed my blog in Canada, Denmark, Spain, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, and Hong Kong...HA! It's just cool to think that my ongoing letter to friends and family about my life experiences is being stumbled upon (sporadically) across the world! What I want to know is how they are searching it, because when I try to google my blog, it's not easily searchable. There are ways to make your blog more accessible and I think that it might be a cool experience to try and expand the regular audience of the blog, just to see if I can do it! Stay tuned...we'll see how it works. Anyways, I just wanted to share a new hobby: looking at graphs about viewership of my blog...vain, I know. I'm hoping the novelty will wear off soon.
I'm not really a big fan of posting my blog on my facebook or twitter pages, asking people to read my latest post...right now at least. But if anyone has any tips about how to make blogs more accessible, I'd love to hear them. Trying to increase my following will hopefully be a new fun project for me...a amateur experiment with a grassroots promotional effort if you will.
Today was a bit busier in the office. I continued to update the Meineke event manual and 4 more extra point passes today! Seriously y'all. If you live in the Charlotte area, you should definitely get a pass www.extrapointpass.com . 10 percent off Ruth's Chris, free appetizers at Blackfinn, $5 off your ticket to the Meineke Car Care Bowl. Just to name a few deals. You'll make your money back using it once or twice! Do I sound like a used car salesman yet? Really, though. It's a good deal and a great way to support the 2 games being in Charlotte. We also worked on the Newsletter today and tried to figure out Constant Contact, which is an email marketing site. Essentially, you gather a database of email addresses that you want to reach out weekly, monthly, whatever, and format a newsletter to send to them with whatever updates you have. We have 4 newsletters that we regularly send out. Don't get me wrong. Constant Contact from an operating standpoint is extremely self explanatory. However, from an editing standpoint...quite frankly, it sucks. Formatting is severely inefficient and some simple editing tasks are near impossible on the site. Kind of annoying.
Amy Yukola came from ACC headquarters today to spend some time working on the championship and I think-I hope- we finally locked down gifts for the championship game! This has been a back and forth struggle because we are dealing with pressures from vendors, the ACC, and our own opinions in Charlotte Collegiate Football. I'm hoping that what we came up with today for our media, VIP's and players will be well received by the rest of the ACC staff. Here's to hoping and praying!I apologize that these posts have been less work intensive these past couple of days. I was just sharing some other interests of mine. More Game posts to come!
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