A Few Words From The Drama King

So the person who couldn’t find Cape Ann Giclee from doing a Google search on a map tells me that I need to redo gmg,  and I need to chill out and that I’m a drama king for pleading with people to send their press releases to other contributors while I’m on vacation.  Now here’s what I propose she does and what she may or may not understand in the media business.

You know when we get the most subscribers? When I go off on rants.  When there’s controversy and when it’s not just pretty pictures.   This is not to in any way shape or form discount the pretty pictures and awesome contributions from everyone but I can rattle off a dozen fantastic photographers that have blogs or musicians that have blogs or cooks that post recipes.  People love the sum of it all all together.   What she should do,  just like when she proposed that “we” in quotation marks hold a city wide yard sale and when I told her to organize it,  I haven’t heard a peep about it since.  And then she writes a lengthy comment criticizing the way I handle things.  Here’s my proposal to you- start your own frickin blog.  Put in the tens of thousands of hours promoting it to get it to the size of audience it has so that your awesome group of contributors’ work gets recognized and commented on, thereby keeping them motivated,  and then,  when you get it to that spot you can make it as generic and sterile as you want it,  without any “unprofessional” rants or whatever you’d like. 
Come on now,  get to work.  I’ll give you a whole list if links on how to start a blog if you’d like.  I suspect you’ll put in about ten posts worth of content together and then,  on your best day when you get about 100 hits ask yourself if it’s worth it and I hope you keep going.   I hope you keep trying to find interesting content and place your content relentlessly in front of the audience most likely to embrace it and build your subscribers base one subscriber at a time.  Every single day.  Tweeting,  Google +ing,  searching for online message boards that might be interested in that content, and putting the links in front the of them, hoping you earn more dedicated readers.  Out of 1000 blogs that start my guess is that 5 continue to post weekly after the first year and maybe 2 post daily after the first year and maybe 1 posts 4-8 times a day every day after the first year. 
So go ahead.  Buckle your chinstrap.  Get to work.  Start your blog and stick with it through the building year when a big day is 100 views.  Stick with it in the second or third your when you might reach 1000 views per day.  I wish you nothing but the best of luck.