I hope everyone had a good weekend. It was a slow one for word selling here in Nelson, so I decided to give myself a hair cut. Still pretty excited about Ben being a father now etc.
Still getting the hits, but it would be nice to start selling words on a regular basis. I actually read today on a few websites that the key to the success of The Million Dollar Homepage was not word-of-mouth, but the use of a publicist costing over $5000 per month. This is a little disheartening, however makes me feel like I’ve done a pretty good job just by myself.
I can positively confirm that I do not have a publicist and that my site is currently where it is at purely by my own efforts. Having said that, I guess that I now have a new view on how far word-of-mouth can take a good idea. I could definitely use more mouths! Please show and tell my site to as many people as you can ….or even better, contribute to the stories.
I still firmly believe that this website could become something of a cult site in the years to come…..people returning back to see where the stories are at, and also contributing to influence the story-line…….. it is early days in the history of this site, but it would be great to get the stories progressing faster.
Also, I’ve had a lot of comments regarding the black & white photograph on the title page. It’s a street book-stall and was taken in Mumbai (Bombay), India. I’m a bit of a wannabe photographer….in fact I think my dream job would probably be a photographer for National Geographic……but events didn’t allow for that…..actually just to elaborate on this a little (something I’ve always been a little bitter about!)…... During high school, photography became an elective subject in Year 11. If you had done it in Year 11, you could then do it in Year 12. To get into University for photography, you had to have done it in high school and also have a portfolio. Well, I wanted to do it in Year 11, but so did most of my fellow students…there wasn’t enough space and so somehow the “lucky” students were chosen, while the “unlucky” students missed out. I missed out, and effectively this one decision limited one of the things that I really wanted to do in the future.
Anyway, enough of the sob stories. Since I’ve had some comments on my title page photo, I thought I’d also include a photo of mine every now and then in my blog. It might also help reduce the monotony of me speaking!
