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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 (21:19:05) |
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I’ve been writing a blog now for over three years. I still remember my first post, titled “Old Prude Citations”. It was a lighthearted jab at people that took life too seriously.
It was well received among my closest friends. They were all bikers, all two or three of them. Yes believe it or not, my social circle was once very small.
It wasn’t well received by my ex-wife, though. She thought it was a dumb idea and said I was stupid. It’s funny how that marriage didn’t work out, huh?
I kept plugging away. I would write mostly about motorcycles and riding. From time to time, I would write about photography and post pictures of some the eye-candy work I was doing for various magazines. That’s about all I had going for me at the time.
I owned a full-service portrait and wedding studio and did some motorcycle photography as well as swimwear and eye-candy (girls in lingerie and less). I also did photojournalism and journalistic writing for some motorcycle magazines. Working for other people wasn’t quite giving me what I wanted out of writing and photography, so I started BrainBucketMag.com.
Over time, it has grown. We average around 20,000 readers viewing nearly 80,000 pages per month. BrainBucketMag.com has over 54,000 pages and 1,500 inbound links indexed in Yahoo. Google considers Brain Bucket an authority site (a site shown with sublistings) not only for a domain search, but a publication name search.
That’s a buncha techie stuff that’s good info for our potential advertisers. It’s also for you folks that want some sorta quantification. It’s cool and I take pride in it.
However, the real pride comes from some of the personal emails I get and meeting people that are fans.
I remember the first time I met someone outside of my circle of friends that actually read Brain Bucket. I was in Daytona for Biketoberfest 2007. A site hired us to promote the events and wanted a model on location for a poster signing. I was also in attendance just to make sure everything went fine.
A large group walked up to our booth, met the model, got some signed posters, and took some pictures with her. I was getting very little attention as I’m sure you could imagine. Seriously, like I’m gonna be able to compete with a hot chick at a motorcycle rally!
So when someone turned to me and asked me what I was all about, I was surprised to say the least. I told them my name and this person took a step back. They asked if I was Dynamike, the guy who wrote the blog.
“Yep, that’s me,” I said as I thought I was about to get punched or something.
“Oh my God, ya’ll! It’s Mike!” he exclaimed. His friends turned their backs on the hot chick and walked right over to me shaking my hand and patting me on the back saying, “We love your blog man! You are so funny!”
That felt very good. I knew I was doing something right. It was validation a year and a half in the making.
It’s been happening more and more since then and it’s always nice. Sometimes are more memorable than others. One that really sticks with me is when I met Elias Soriano from Nonpoint after a show and he professed to being a fan.
I finally decided to start using Facebook a while back. It’s been a great way to connect with some old friends. I wanted my old friends from High School to see what I was up to. I could’ve posted links to my blog posts, but I didn’t wanna come across as a SPAMMER. Instead I would post the entire blog post and tag my closest friends.
I started getting people request FB friendship that I had never heard of. One guy said that he read my notes on someone else’s profile and enjoyed them so much he had to send me a friend request. A girlfriend of a friend from High School saw my profile and commented on how I looked like a blast to know and sent me a friend request.
And then one of my FB friends sent me a personal email that’s right on par with meeting Elias Soriano and that first fan encounter. I’ll just let you read it for yourself:
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So ... I must confess .... after I got off of fb earlier ... I found myself logging right back on. I just had to check your notes out! I have spent the better half of an hour reading and learning a little bit about your world. Your a little different than what I imagined. I have to tell you, after reading your profile notes I find myself smiling. You kept my attention all weekend with your humor, and now I find myself putting my book down so that I could dive into your political, scientific and sometimes biological world .... lol .... It has been very intersting and informative and I cant wait to see which direction you turn next. Thanks for accepting my friend request b/c I have enjoyed it .... most time I have EVER spent on fb .... and probably the longest message Ive ever sent from such a tiny keyboard (cell phone) Hope your having a great night!!!! P. S. Ive never sent a friend request to someone I didnt already know... I may rethink that .... I could be missing out on some really cool people!! Later Tater  ] |
How flattering is that!?! Seriously!?! I imagine I’ll go back to reading this one a few times.
Thank you! Thank you all! Thanks for reading, commenting on, and turning your friends on to my ramblings. I am very flattered by all of it.
And yes author of this email I quoted, meeting you has been one of the highlights of my weekend! Later Tater |
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