Covering the business of education and training

I have finally learned what it takes to get 1,000,000 unique visitors. I know because I got my 1,000,000th visitor this morning at 8:17:55am (PST)

Some dude from

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Continent  :  North America Country  :  United States  (Facts) State  :  Wisconsin City  :  Milwaukee Lat/Long  :  43.0522, -87.965 (Map)

dropped by to take a look at the post 

93 million people with the same last name

on my blog at PanAsianBiz, one of three that I maintain for KnowMoreMedia. The other two are this one and RisingSunOfNihon. 

So, what does it take to get 1,000,000 unique visitors?

1. Write a lot. I have written a combined 4,318 posts and more than 850,000 words (abt 200 words/post). That's just barely one+ visit per word that I have written.  Page views = 1.59 million.

2. Write often. I post 10-20 posts every day...every every day. Less you think I don't have a life...I have been on extended cruises with NO INTERNET, attended week long swim competitions several times in different parts of the country, and, and...so on. The solution, I know how to use a scheduler and I use it quite a bit. My posts come out every day. ( I think I said that.)

3. Write well. I say this only because I KNOW that many people can indeed write better than I do. Make that much better than I do. I am a mediocre writer at best. I write too quickly and too much. Write well and you will likely reach 1,000,000 visitors much sooner than I did. It took me one year, 1 month and 29 days.

4. Write what is interesting. A good topic choice will get you to one million visitors much quicker than I. I write about business in the PanAsian region, about Japan in particular and about the business of education...NOT your hot topics  - blogs, money, sex, diet, celebrities - though I do touch on those topics from time to time from my blogs' perspective and they do get read.

5. Write as part of a network. My blogs belong to the KnowMoreMedia network. My posts get ranked more easily because of the link power of this network. If you do not belong to a network...build one...smooze, contact others like you and share blogroll links...the more the better.

6. Send your posts to social network sites. I do this even more than I can tolerate at times. I send my posts to Netscape, Digg, CollegeHumor, Ebaumsworld and other such sites. Few get read, some never. But, I am faithful at finding/searching out like minded sites and promoting my blogs and promoting the sites that publich my blogs. It makes a huge difference.

7. Don't give up. I learned a long time that the number one reason businesses fail is because the owner does/can not stay with the business long enough for the idea to catch on. (runs out of money, or whatever). Still, they just didn't or couldn't stay with it long enough. If it is a good idea, dog it, stay with it, be persistent. Walt Disney made the world fall in love with a MOUSE. Sooner or later your good idea will catch on, too, if you don't give up.

Someone should write in the comments below, "What took you so long, Bill, to get to 1,000,000 visitors?" And, I will humbly bow my head and respond, I am just not that good a blogger....yet. But, I do know how to stay with an idea and stubbornly work it until I see some results. If I were smarter, I could no doubt do things better and quicker and with more desirable results....but, I ain't.....yet.

A normally quite critical friend of mine kindly pointed out to me when I reached 1,000,000 page views, "Bill, 1,000,000 people can't be wrong." I don't know...I still feel I am lucky and also extremely grateful to all those who have stopped by...including you.

Tell me, please, how did you get to 1,000,000 unique visitors.

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