Snobbish Self-Promotion

by sj

Look, guys – we don’t mean to be snapebags or anything, but we kind of realized lately that we’re lacking in the necessary promotional skills to have a semi-successful blog.  I mean, I’ve got this thingy hooked up to my twitter account (which you should all follow because I’m sometimes funny there in 140 characters or less), but I don’t even post on facebook – mostly because I haven’t really told many of my friends that the Snobbery even exists.  I know.  I suck.  Anyway, we were hoping you could help us all out, and to do so we’ve come up with a list of reasons you can give why people should read us.

  1. We’re awesome.
  2. We’re super awesome.
  3. We think our awesome haiku/low-ku should be shared with the world.
  4. We have Trashy Tuesdays.  Everyone should love Trashy Tuesdays.  Everyone.
  5. Meg’s eyes are MESMERIZING.  For realsies.  Don’t look too close, she’ll hypnotize you.

You are getting sleeeeeepy! You want all of your friends to subscribe to the Snobbery...there's an easy little button for them to click on the side...

You’re all going to run right out and share us with the world now…right?

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36 Responses to “Snobbish Self-Promotion”

  1. I was a bit weary about sharing my posts on facebook but I do it all the time now. It’s a bit embarrassing sometimes when I realise one of my aunts or someone I went to school with and haven’t spoken to in 7 years read it, but mostly it’s fun. And there is a HUGE difference in the amounts of hits I get if I don’t. Good luck with it :)

    • You know, it’s not even that. I know that many of my friends (including myself sometimes) get very annoyed with people that are constantly pushing their blog/book/whatever down the throats of everyone they know. It’s something I need to get over, I know.

      Thank you for visiting and commenting!

  2. I feel compelled to obey the eyes. Do you want me post swear words and stuff on the WordPress forums?

    To be honest it’s easy to get paranoid about the success of your blog. At one point I thought having 10 followers would mean I was successful yet I still crave more despite passing that point many months ago.

    Same with the page views. If I get a couple of good days in a row followed by a lower day I start over-analysing why the views seemed to have dropped off.

    I have my blog linked to Facebook but get hardly any views from it. Same with Twitter.

    Fret not dearest Snobs.

  3. Of course I follow you. If you look outside, you’ll see me in the bushes…

  4. It’s rare for me to help someone without the promise of cookies, but I just can’t fight the awesomeness (or the amazingness of Trashy Tuesdays) :-D …L

  5. Oh no, I was following your blog but now under hypnosis I am actually now defollowing (???) your blog! What a pickle!

  6. It’s good to not tell all your friends about your blog, that way they’ll never know when they “inspire” a post! LOL

  7. The eyes have it (pun TOTALLY intended)!
    Yes, this goodness should be shared. I’m so glad I stumbled upon you guys. :) And your reasoning is irrefutable!
    I struggle with the same question of how to get my blog out there more too… Trying to stay involved with the blog community seems to help.

    • Yes, absolutely. I’ve been trying to cut back on my online time this year (what, the wordpress app for iPhone doesn’t count, does it?), but when I am I try to comment on as many blogs as I deem worthy of participation.

      That probably makes me sound snobbier than I actually am, but I’m kind of prejudiced against commenting on things I wouldn’t recommend to my friends.

      • Oh, yes, I hear you. WordPress could suck years away if you let it… And no, the iPhone app totally doesn’t count (because I use it religiously)!
        Haha, hey it can be hard to find good writing sometimes. A little snobbery can be useful, in this case… :)

  8. I don’t do twitter, and while I am on facebook, I try to avoid it – I’m not sure I like all those people anyway. However, I continue to follow anything you two say. I told my husband about your blog and he now reads it too – does that count?

  9. Your hypnosis idea is one that I already used… but without the eyes. The eyes have it. (sorry).
    You are going to have to stand on your talent, because that is what sucked me in.
    I guess you could resort to high-ku… but that would involve the mailing of illegal materials to all your readers and potential readers, so there might be a problem there.
    What about a biplane flying around with a banner… oh, never mind. If I knew the secret of self-promotion, you would be working for me now… all of you… in the blog-mines, churning out words for my evil blog empire…mmmuuhwwwaaaaaaaa… (was that an acceptable evil villain laugh? I can never figure out how to spell that)…

    • See! The eyes make all the difference. And Meg’s eyes are pretty awesome.

      I think “high-ku” would be too expensive to do feasibly. We’ll have to work on that.

  10. I haven’t posted on Facebook when I have new blog posts either. I’m in the same boat: I haven’t really told any friends or family, I just did it ’cause I wanted to. I have the links on my “info” on my Facebook page, but let’s be honest: who ever really looks at the info?

    But I do think your blog is great and I will definitely spread the word :)

    • Yes! I did the same thing! I put the link to the Snobbery on my info page, but I have it set so only friends can see it and I don’t think anyone ever checks it…which is kind of a shame because I have some funny stuff hidden there.

  11. I regularly forget to put my posts on Facebook. I need a personal assistant.

  12. Just doing my part to help – someone passed an award on to me and I’m passing the baton on to you. You’ve been nominated for the Beautiful Blogger Award by me on my blog. Doubt it’ll increase traffic by much, but there might be a few extra clicks because of it.

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