The 100th Blog - Lessons Learned
This entry was posted on 7/29/2008 7:47 PM and is filed under Random Thoughts.
This hasn't been a good month for blogs. July is almost over and I believe this is just my second. I have lots of excuses. The water damage drained me. We spent ten days on the road visiting loved ones. I have taken on additional duties in my golf association (doing anything for the first time is time consuming and unnerving). And, the dog ate my computer. Now, you have to figure out which of the above statements is not accurate.
This is my hundredth publication and I gave a lot of thought to the subject. I believe that 100 blogs should qualify me as a grand blogmeister. I figured at this time on my path to blogtopia, I would be much wiser. I am not. But, I have learned some lessons which I would like to pass on.
First, running a website hasn't made me a computer wizard. I thought that I would continue to pick up neat things that I would add on to expand the excitement of the site. I was certain by now I would be posting pictures. I made myself a promise that it would happen by last March. It did not. Go Daddy runs my website and I suspect if I go back to them and tell them I want to be able to post pictures, they will make it happen. They have been very supportive.
I suspect to get what I want I will have to spend a few bucks. That won't be bad. Right now, the site costs me practically nothing. No unkind comments please. The good news is that the site doesn't run on gas!
I'm a one man marketer and when anyone is foolish enough to ask me what I am doing with my retirement, they get a three-minute pitch on my website. Then, I give them one of my old business cards with the blog site hand written across it. I even changed my Virginia vanity license plate to "RICEQPS" (you only get so many letters). While pumping gas, a fellow asked me about my license plate. Out comes the cards.
Another lesson I learned is that even good friends who take my card and tell me they will visit my website don't. I used to pout. Some close friends told me they would subscribe, but they didn't. I pouted some more. Then, I realized that these people have a life of their own. Not visiting RICEQUIPS.COM doesn't make them evil or even bad. It just makes them busy. So, I forgive them in absentia. Since they aren't reading this, it will have to be in absentia.
Of the hundred blogs, I think some are really good and some should be deleted. I don't plan on deleting any, but I need to develop the site so people are pointed to the better ones. The three postings that have been read the most are: TV Commercials - Can You Hear Me Now?; My Green Visor; and The Indoor Perfect Storm. If you have read this far and are not familiar with those three, you might want to check them out.
Tim McGraw had a song out entitled, "My Next Thirty Years." The idea was that he would try to do better in his next thirty years. Well, I plan to do better in my next 100 blogs.
