Update – 48 hours has expired and I’ve now closed this experiment.
OK – here’s a little experiment for us to participate in this weekend. Below I’d like you to ‘pitch’ us on why we should read your blog. Read on to find out how.
I get asked these two questions a lot:
- Can you link to my blog on ProBlogger
- Can you recommend a blog on the topic of (insert topic here)
The answer to #1 is invariably no. It’s not that I don’t want to promote great blogs – but the reality is that if I promoted every blog I was asked to link to it’d take over this blog completely.
The answer to #2 is for me to sometimes give people a link but more often it’s a blank look. You see while I track the feeds of over 700 blogs that is just a drop in the ocean and the blogs I follow tend to be on just a couple of narrow topics.
So – what I want to do is give people an opportunity to promote their blog here on ProBlogger and an opportunity for others to find new blogs to read.
It’s all going to happen in the comments section of this post.
Here’s how it’ll work.
- Over the next 48 hours I am leaving the comments of this post open for you to give an elevator pitch for your blog.
- To keep the ‘pitches’ short – you have to do it in 140 characters or less.
- You can ‘sell’ your blog to us in any way you like as long as it’s 140 characters. Use humor, tell us what it’s about, tease us… what ever you want. Just keep it family friendly please.
- Feel free to use your blog’s name in the ‘name’ field in the comments section and to leave the URL in the URL section to help you save on characters.
- Please only pitch one blog to us. If you have multiple blogs just pick your best one.
- After 48 hours I’ll close the comments on this post and will point people back to it and encourage them to surf through the list and find some new blogs to read. I’ll also encourage people to link up to the ones they find and enjoy reading.
- I’m not going to do a summary list of all blogs submitted (I suspect there will be quite a few) but I will pick out a few of my favorite elevator pitches to highlight in the 2nd post.
- update – Please include the number ‘140’ in the comment. This will help us find any comments that are filtered as spam. The ‘140’ doesn’t get counted in your 140 characters.
Will this bring you tens thousands of new readers to your blog? Probably not – but it could bring a few, and they could bring others…..
I’m looking forward to seeing how you pitch us your blog (I think it’s important to be able to sell your blog in a few words so hopefully this is a useful exercise) but also to discovering some great new blogs! Your 48 hours starts…. NOW!
Subscribe to my feed to be notified when the project ends so you can come back and surf the list!
update: If you don’t see your comment come up immediately please be patient. It will have been queued for moderation – we’ll get to it eventually. There’s no need to add a 2nd comment. Thanks!
Update 2 – thanks everyone – I’ve now closed this experiment off. I do appreciate everyone’s submissions and apologize to those that missed out but this page slowed down so much that I can’t extend the experiment past 48 hours! I’ll post in the next 24 hours a few of my favorite pitches plus some reflections on the project. Wow – over 1400 submissions – thanks!
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My 2p about Information Worker Solutions & some other Microsoft stuff.
Personal Development That Works!
Download free mp3 meditations and read quality articles o_o
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Exploring ways to use our minds efficiently. This means topics like creativity, problem-solving, visual thinking, self-mastery and more. 140
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A blog where I talk about my experience living in Canada as an immigrant. If this is your dream or you want to know more,come and visit me.
Two wheels are all you really need, fella!
if it’s open I’ll patch it. if it needs to be … 140
Taking the “yawn” out of corporate films.
Documentary Filmmaker | Thomas Clifford
We take the guesswork out of buying your next beauty product. Experience beauty reviews with ALL women in mind!140
Exploring ways to make money online. A lot of info for people who want to start a (online) business (from start to finish.) 140
SkitZo MaN dot CoM is a blog about comics, cartooning and the creative process.
Urban issues and urban planning in Mexico… and ramblings of a phd student at MIT.
Rediscover and celebrate NEW NETHERLAND, the “lost” 17thC Dutch colony of greater NYC, NJ & the Hudson Valley. http://DutchNewYork.com 140
140: Building better web businesses is my focus. I offer advice to WordPress and Dreamweaver users, it’s helpful, it’s informative and it’s free.
Tips, suggestions, inspiration and musings about traveling with children, from fetus to teens. It may be stressful at times, but worth it. 140
My site is all about the best Mac Tricks. It features posts for the new and advance user on every topic on the Mac. It is designed to make you the best Mac user.
140 Characters, near enough.
http://www.creativelyselfemployed.com/blog.htm
Insights into creative self-employment. Connect with other creatives here! 140
The trials and triumphs of a newbie freelancer. The when, where, what and how much of freelancing as learned through practicing the trade. [140]
Uomo iniversalis in the making. Come and learn with me. 140
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Looking at Business Processes, tools, standards and providing a little bit of informed opinion. How are your processes. . . ?
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All politics are local, red and blue, left and right we focus on only Porter County in Northwest Indiana, come on over the action is hot now
One man having fun with his opinions. Blogging the way it used to be.
http://www.funwithopinions.co.uk
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The Boomer Chronicles is the place to be. We talk about saving for retirement, we talk about helping aging parents, we talk about Bigfoot sightings and spontaneous human combustion.
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Some things that matter. Some things that don’t. Mostly things that don’t. Life, love, humor, family, work and that time I peed on the cat.
http://chrisilluminati.blogspot.com/
Emerging blog on emerging economic giant, India and Instant answers to stock market doubts.
Time to mourn, dead blogs full of porn? Avoid the SEO demonetization Hex and Stop Thinking About Sex. 140
Focused on the Colorado craft beer scene. Reviews of local breweries, brewpubs, their beers. Love beer and coming to Colo? Stop here 1st. 140
140, Just a blog about my ramblings and findings about Self Defence, the Martial Arts, Self protection (which is different, find out why…), the mixed martial arts (you know, UFC type stuff) and strength and conditioning. I have lots of info on there worthy of interest. Try it out now!
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An affiliate marketers blog, with a personal insight into an affiliate journey oh and some tips along the way!!
Ever wanted to move to another country? Expat blog for the younger college grad set with humorous and informative posts on expat life. 140
Visiting Puerto Rico? Check out our independent Travel Guide filled with first-hand Reviews, Insider Tips and other Info you can trust! 140
Pizza and alcohol-fuelled rantings from a 30-something female London-based runner. 140.
Contests, giveaways, and more, oh my!
Gil’s Method is a computer How-to website dedicated to provide users with easy to follow instructions, tips, and a place for users to interact and share with one another.
http://www.gilsmethod.com
Darren, thanks for the opportunity!
Cooking, organizing, living – it doesn’t have to be complicated. Get back to the basics with this brown-eyed girl.
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This is blog basically on tips to make money to sustain in life. A blogging arena for money making tips. Visit today and offer me a link exchange.
She dreamed handsome young men would enter her bedroom as she brushed her soft brown hair by the lamp near the open window where the sheer curtains billowed in the wind while she gazed at the clouds drifting past the full moon. With shiny metal scoops, like the ones she saw in the huge ice-making machine in the kitchen of the nursing home where her mother used to work, they’d pour diamonds at her pretty feet. She found herself outside in the middle of a raging snowstorm. Dirty gray snowmen shoveled dirty gray snow at her dirty gray frostbitten feet. 140
Helping people who have lost their musical roots to reconnect with them. 140
Perfecting Life one step at a time through conscious evolution, deep thought & the law of attraction, when it doesn’t go horribly wrong…
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Zen-Dreams is an High-Tech blog, mostly talking about Linux, OpenSource, IT Infrastructures and finally… WordPress. I’m developping WordPress plugins and promotting/supporting them on my Blog.
I’m a mommy blogger. Half the population may think me boring. The other half is extremely intelligent, witty & know a good click when they see one.
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I’m so sorry…I thought it was 140 WORDS or less!
Educate, propagate & ignite
Your photography passion’s bright light
Twice a week you’ll get the kicks
With great tuts, tips and tricks
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A fresh perspective on personal development and productivity, covering how to cope with the modern challenges we face in day-to-day life.
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Hobby blogging at its best – tips, tutorials, photos, projects, contests, instruction – from enthusiastic teacher of needle arts. And fairly well-written, to boot!
Simply speaking, the randomness of my mind.
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WordPress sucks! Medical Jokes, Cartoons, Videos. Anatomically correct medical humor. 140
An average, six-pack guy’s look at cigars and cigar accessories. (with cigar pr0n thrown in for good measure)
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Inventing Elephants: thinking towards the whole; learning to pull a next step from a chaos of interrelated incomplete multiple perspectives
Scrapping and blogging for fun and money
10 AHA! So you think what you’re reading is important…
But Will It Change You?!
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