So this blog gets like 200+ hits a day and has 180+ subscribers. Probably 100-150 of those hits go directly to my helpful tutorials, but who are the other 50-100 of you that read my blog every day? If you read this and comment telling me who you are, what your blog is (if you have one) and what you do for a living, I’ll enter you into a drawing to win a $10 gift card to Amazon.com or something lame like that. I just want to learn a bit more about who’s reading my content so that I can write more specifically to you.
I started this blog quite a few years ago (my first post was November 5th, 2007). I didn’t have a very clear view of what I wanted to write about when I began, so EE has evolved to be a conglomerate of tutorials and my random life experiences, successes, failures and whatever else. I’m thinking about starting a separate blog that is more devoted to my affiliate marketing efforts specifically to narrow things down a bit.
Anyways, let me know who you are. I’d love to meet you. Oh…and thanks for reading. I think you’re cool for it.
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My name is Nathan Smith, and I read your blog almost daily. Enter my sorry can into that drawing. (btw I just rated this post a 5, so you should put my name in the drawing 5 times)
you win dude. I’ll give you 10 bucks next time I see you as payment for being my friend. haha
Oh yeah baby!!! All your other readers were too freaking lazy. – NOOBZ! haha
haha. good stuff
I don’t think you know me…
but I read here occasionally.
I know you Volk. lol. Thanks for reading. Love your blog btw.
I read on occasion if you have something interesting. What i do for a living is to make sure that matt knows that he’s on the bottom of the food chain.
You know who I am leremiah!
Indeed. We need to go to Denny’s. Do you still have the same phone number? I swear I always text you and never get a reply. i r not kool enuf?
Yeah… I read here quite often but keep it on the down-low. I don’t want to skew the results of your posts. You know like observing the wave/particle theory. Just being observed by the wrong/right people can change the outcome. I was talking to Chase about this today, if you aren’t familiar with it here is the simplest video there is on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_tNzeouHC4
In management theory its called “what gets measured gets managed” though and it is another case where science applies to the business world on some level(s). This is best illustrated in the “Hawthorne Effect” as found here:
http://www.uk.sagepub.com/gobo/Chapter-14a.pdf
In the 1920s the Western Electric Company had a factory at Cicero, Illinois, just
outside Chicago. Between 1924 and 1932, a series of field studies and experiments
were carried out on workers at the plant. The research was funded by the National
Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and undertaken on
behalf of General Electric, the largest manufacturer of light bulbs in the United
States. The aim was to assess the influence of lighting on workforce productivity,
and therefore to determine the level of illumination which produced the best work
performance.
When the researchers discovered that productivity almost always increased after
a change in illumination, regardless of whether the light was increased or
decreased, they performed a second set of experiments, supervised by Harvard
University professors Elton Mayo, Fritz Roethlisberger and William J. Dickson, in order
to find out why their measurement methods were unreliable.
They introduced other changes into the work environment and studied the
responses to them by a sample of five young women. Once again, whatever
change was made to the conditions, the women’s productivity almost invariably
improved.
These studies engendered the expression ‘the Hawthorne effect’: an important
advance in industrial and organizational psychology and in organizational behavior,
whose general meaning was that when people are being observed by
researchers, they temporarily change their behavior or performance. The definition
has since been extended to state that people change their behaviors and
performances in response to any increase in the attention paid to them.
Keep up the good work… I’ll be watching
We’re a software company in Ogden that provides tools for affiliate marketers. I found your blog because I’m interested in knowing who the affiliate marketers in Utah are.