The Secret Of My Success
- 1,500,000 hits (aka page views)
- 5,000 posts
- 300 hits per post
- 3 years
- 4.5 posts per day
- 1.5 years avg age of posts (some were posted yesterday, some the first day)
- 200 hits per year for each post, on average
- 900 hits per year for each days worth of posts
Kinda like one of those 100 cold calls -> 5 sales presentations -> 1 sale -> $5,000 commission sort of breakdowns they tell you about if you've ever taken any sales training. And to be sure, a lot of variability is hidden in those averages. (For example, nobody comes to this site wanting to know what I thought of John Kerry in 2004!) But the secret, basically, is persistence.
And, as any blogger will tell you, not defining success in monetary terms!
Congratulations! Well deserved numbers.
Posted by: Woody | 02/15/2006 at 10:07 AM
Wow! Congratulations!
For someone who's Too Crazy For Boys Town and
Too Much Of A Boy For Crazy Town, that's real cool. ALthough, I like the Strategy of Bingo and the Excitement of Chess better.
Posted by: jobert | 02/15/2006 at 11:23 AM
Congratulations. I enjoy the blog, keep at it.
Press at truepress.com
Posted by: Press | 02/15/2006 at 12:22 PM
The Strategy of Bingo. The Excitement of Chess. -- thats what drew me in the first time :)
Posted by: Maven | 02/16/2006 at 08:14 AM
You mean to tell me I am not going to get rich doing this?
I quit.
Posted by: Fred | 02/16/2006 at 08:49 PM
And Tom do contribute to the entreprenuer carnival.
If you don't, I'll submit this post for you.
(Oh my, that sounded like a threat...)
The advice deserves a wide audience.
Congrats,
Jack and Charmaine
Posted by: Jack Yoest | 02/21/2006 at 01:29 PM
Yeah, Tom! I like what you're saying about persistence. But it helps to be as creative as you are, too.
Posted by: charmaine | 02/22/2006 at 10:23 PM
I just can't help wondering if there is more to the equation. Or is there a major difference between 4 posts per day and one post per day? Is there a tipping point? 1 year? 2 years? How much time per day does it really take to get to 2000 hits a day? How much of it is about networking, carnivals, and the like, as compared to good writing? My list of questions is long because I have been publishing professionally for 30 years (mags and books), and after a year of almost daily posts, I'm up to 20 visitors per day.
Your readers might be interested in my new book, "Running a 21st Century Small Business." Amazon and similar.
Posted by: randy kirk | 02/25/2006 at 10:17 AM