Ask and You Shall Recieve… plus a story with some (marginal) lessons to be learned.
2007 at 6:54am | by Dave
The masses (well… okay, 2 people) have spoken, and they want the option to subscribe to plugins. So it’s been added! The plugin isn’t interacting with our custom theme too well, and it’s currently just displaying a check box at the bottom of the comment form.
I’m leaving it as is for now, and I’ll have my programmer fix it first thing next week. I also discovered a display bug in IE when viewing archives, so I’ll have to get that sorted out as well!
My fiancee, her brother, and I went off to PAX last weekend. If you’re not familiar, it’s sort of like E3, but it’s a show for the consumers, not the industry. Some people go to PAX to try pre-released versions of the latest games, some people go to interact with the Penny Arcade guys (who are pretty cool when all is said and done), but for me… PAX is about one thing and one thing only: free swag. I literally bring an empty suitcase with me to fill with all the stuff I can get, and I don’t really care what the swag is… I can always throw it out when I get home.
For me, it isn’t a successful PAX trip unless I get at LEAST a six month supply of free t-shirts - seriously, I’m actually wearing one I got this year right now. Most booths will happily hand a shirt over to you; they know that if people wear their shirt around, they get free advertising. However, the occasional booth doesn’t grasp this concept and they are sometimes a little stingy with the shirts. What’s a guy to do? Be persistent. If they say no the first time you ask for a t-shrit, plead your case… and don’t give up until you have your shirt in hand.
You’ll either convince them that giving you a shirt is a good idea, or they’ll get tired of you and give you a shirt just to get you to go away. Either way you’ve accomplished your goal.
They say on the web that “content” is king, and that is true to an extent, but in the world of blogging it goes beyond content. Persistence is another key facet of the equation. Problogger took a look at the highest trafficked blogs on the net and he discovered something interesting: the higher traffic on the blog, the more posts per day you found on that blog.
Don’t stop banging out good quality content and you’re 2/3rds of the way there!
Good Profits.
