Since I haven’t yet fleshed out my Evil Master Plan (Hey Lindsay, this is one of the things I want to chat about if we ever get around to sitting and talking about life) this isn’t really an update. But it is a cataloguing of things that are helping to advance my “become internet famous” goal.
If you don’t already know, I write a blog called ClutterCubed. It’s an organizational/decluttering blog, and my spin on it is that I’m not some professional organizer who lives in a house that fell out of Martha Stewart Living, and instead I’m a person who actually struggles with clutter herself (do I ever). Yeah. I started it a couple years ago, but I wasn’t very good about keeping it up, which made me frustrated, which made me less good at keeping it up, etc. Anyway.
A couple weeks ago, I had a guest post published on Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance blog that I read. There was a request for guest posts of reader stories, and I submit the tale of how I kicked my mortgage’s ass. I worked really hard on my GRS submission article, and I’m pleased with how well it turned out. ^_^
Anyway, the point is that my article was selected to be published, and GRS has a readership of over 70,000 people (based on RSS subscription numbers). My article received 121 comments to date, and that made me feel awesome. My traffic spiked that day (I got 12x the traffic I usually do), and the effect had a long tail (the jump in traffic is tapering off, but slowly, instead of a sharp decline back to “normal” levels).
My own RSS subscribers jumped from ~130 to ~230 that day, and over the past couple weeks has steadily climbed to over 330 where it sits today. 330 people read what I have to say, twice a week! 😀
This also turned into a positive feedback loop; the more subscribers I got, the more I wanted, so the more I’m trying to get out of my little anti-social shell and reach out into the bloggosphere (and the Twittersphere, or whatever) and actually interact with people I don’t know. This is a big thing for me.
More things have helped advance my goal, but I’ll just list them here:
Things that help my EMP goal:
1. Article published on GRS
2. Listed in a “Bloggers to watch in 2010” list (by a person who found me through GRS – their blog has about 250 RSS subscribers)
3. I was featured in a before/after post on Live it With Less
4. My own “bloggers to watch in 2010” article was linked to in an article on ProBlogger (“the” blog about blogging, with 138,000 RSS subscribers). It was just a “here’s a list of people who wrote “bloggers to watch in 2010″ posts”, but still. I got a link on ProBlogger, guys!!