With many new ways appearing each day in Eccle Town promising to spread your lovin faster than ever it was my intention just to stay silent and respect other people wishes to make their own choices, and I still do and I have mentioned quietly in the forum that in my mind that these speed dating services had the potential to do more harm than good, but again it really was not important that a different or alternate view was put forward as it had no affect on the way I went about things in Eccle Town, until this morning.
Today when popping into the forums i read about a new dating service where we can now buy and sell our lovin as if it is a disposable commodity, I need to stop right here on talking about these types of sites or i will be finding some backlash. I can say i have seen one setup that is quite good as it seems well done and for the people, it was in physiology and one other location but lost track of that.
Regardless of those things and to talk about them, instead i will offer up an alternative point of view that people may or may not wish to adapt or at least consider combining with a speed dating service when dropping their lovin..
The first thing is that your drop is just as important as placing an ad, and in such any speed dating service can take away an real long term beneficial effects on your blog and it's progress forward, by that your drop can and does speak many languages, it can say a simple hello, a welcome, a thank you and many other things.
If we were to look at it closer let's say i had a real world business and printed of my business cards ( your drops ), and each day i gave the same 300 people in my niche the same card, would it not be after a short period a level of status quo where my business would not grow any bigger ? and i do not know of any one in the real world who would even support that idea or method of business building.
So with those principles in mind and the use of speed dating become more popular in the disguise of it is faster and saves time, well yes it saves time one could argue but long term places you into a position of standing still.
So with that if people were to look at their blog and drops in another way could your returns and future business grow at a faster rate, well i will let people decide for themselves that answer but here are my drops over the past week and I am also confident that these will continue to grow, to what level i am not sure
398 cards dropped on you 31/12
323 cards dropped on you 01/01
385 cards dropped on you 0201
367 cards dropped on you 0301
389 cards dropped on you 0401
456 cards dropped on you 0501
The first thing I hear people say is it must take forever and I have no time, well it really does not take that much time at all, if we look at it, there are several house keeping duties that are needed in Eccle Town, they are to study future sites and look for value (another whole story there), to buy some advertising and to drop some lovin. Now I read no where in the guide book that this needed to take a long time nor that it needed to be done via a speed date.
If we look at sites to invest in / buy advertising into the future well your already there and if you see what you like drop some lovin and buy, if not move on, this becomes a natural process once you have done it for a while, plus the whole concept of speed lovin takes away all of the great work people do on their sites, some sites are really a treasure but if we all fly past in the middle of the night, then for what reason do we create the blog for in the first place.
Anyway moving and exactly how I work in Eccle town, is as a rule the drop part 1 is straight forward and easy to do, I simply dial up the most popular set my number of rows to view (what ever suits you is fine) , dial up the first category, art then always hit the top 3 players, this is my first way i talk with my business card, as I say hey I'm down here if you need to place an ad, next while on the screen I do 2 more things and look for my colors, there is red for favorites and blue for ads booked.
What this does (as the screen is always in constant motion with the changing of prices) is lets you catch up with old friends / your favorites and say hi hope all is well, and then the blue sections are people who have accepted you ad, so I drop and say thank you, and that I appreciate you accepting my add.
I only work in my top screen level say set to 12 rows or whatever suits you, then I move to the next category and repeat for all categories, now some especially new people have a sense that they need to stay in their niche and its bad to wander outside and to some degree I can understand this (I get a few rejections), but lets look at it this way if you were driving down your local highway and you only saw one type of sign everyday lets say a pet shop or pet related signs, then sooner or later they would all blend and the people may as well live on an isolated island, but we don't see that when we drive down the road we see all sorts of advertising.
The same principle applies to the web, as it is nothing more than a virtual highway and your widgets are the sign posts along that road, so next time some one drops from another category just keep in mind that this person has come into your community and invested some of their eccle's of which you can use to further enhance and richen your community and niche, and they may be keeping an eye out where to place additional ads on your site. OK enough of that back to drops.
Well in stage one it's simple to run through as above and takes very little time and on average would drop around 100 - 200 kisses leaving a balance, next is our study and invest stage and for me, I again dial up most popular, grab my mountain of trusty notes, dial up a price setting that i want to work in (again set to 12 rows or your choice) and look for my bargains that i have earmarked from earlier days. This is a bit like trying to guess the stock exchange but overall it should be more about having some fun, as i have never got it right yet but manage a balance.
But here while on that screen i will see more old favorites kicking around and sites that I have also placed advertising with, so I stop again and give them some lovin, so with a 3 in one step, I give some lovin, place some ads and spot new sites to keep an eye on, and all in low stress, and usually by the time I have finished buying for the night I have run well out of love, so there are some that go with out for a night or two, but sooner or later all of these people come across my radar during the drop or buy period and will get some more lovin.
Overall a very basic look at things and even with the speed lovin service if people done 200 speed loves and saved 100 lovin drops for blog building, i am sure they would see their blogs improve over time.
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