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    • I very rarely bother with my personal accounts anymore but I do enjoy connecting with other bloggers and my readers on social media.

      I need to know your secret of how you got readers without social media in the beginning. It took me a few months to get around to using social media for my blog in the beginning and my views were barely into four figures!

      • Well, it’s not much of a “secret.”

        Here goes: I started a blog ten years ago. A friend of mine suggested I check out his cousin’s blog. I did so, and in the process of leaving comments there, I encountered other bloggers. I checked out, then followed, their blogs, and they returned the favor. One of them suggested I participate in a meme called “Theme Thursday.” Through that I met more bloggers and got more followers. Over the years, I’ve lost followers but obtained new ones in other ways, like participating in the A to Z Challenges of 2014 and 2016. After all that, I’ve never had more than 100 people officially listed as followers. And out of that 90+, I’d estimate that only a third are still with me. I get a few hundred hits almost every day, though, and assume most come from internet searches. But I’ve never approached a four-figure audience.

        Aren’t you sorry you asked, haha?

  1. Sounds like a fantastic challenge, if I wasn’t so sleep deprived with a newborn I’d certainly be up for it. #AnythingGoes

  2. I really want to participate in this Debbie but my problem is that 250 words are too short for me lol. I keep trying to write short stories but always end up writing more and the next thing I know I’m in full on novel mode. I will try to do this if I can though. #anythinggoes

  3. Welsh Mum Writing

    Writing flash is such a good way of mixing things up and getting the creative juices flowing. There’s an art to being succinct. #BloggerClubUK

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