Covering the business of education and training

Yesterday, I celebrated a milestone. My three blogs, this one, PanAsianBiz and RisingSunOfNihon combined to reach 2,000,000 page views. Yea!

Two questions come to mind -

1. How did I do it?

2. What took me so long? 

First things first...what I think it takes to get to 2,000,000 page views

1. Write a lot. I have written a combined 4,690 posts and more than 890,000 words (abt 200 words/post). That's just over two page visits per word that I have written.  It took me almost a year to get to 1,000,000 page views. The second 1,000,000 took just over two months. If you write enough about enough...sooner or later you will hit on something someone/s want to read.

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. If I could write well it surely it wouldn't have taken me so long to get to 2,000,000 page views. (1 year, 2 months, 24 days).  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. But, I am persistent.

4. Write what is interesting. A good topic choice will likely get you and your blog to two million page views 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, yup!, 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. Be part of a network.

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, 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 the sites that publish my blogs. It makes a huge difference. And, I am still looking...looking...looking.

7. Don't give up. I learned a long time ago 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.

8. An Intangible. This one will be understood by some and missed by many...that's okay. My wife and I are givers to our local church. At one point, around Oct/Nov of last year, we decided to base our giving on page views. What happened after that astounded me. Here are PAB's, RSON's and TBOK's sitemeters. Tell me, it doesn't make a difference. I thank God for being a part of my life.

Secondly -

What took me so long?

See #3, and #4 above.

I do, however, 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 that smart.....yet... and, dang it, may never be.

Still, 2,000,000 people have come across the pages I have put on the net.

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 wonder what he would say about 2,000,000.

I don't know...I still feel I am lucky, and blessed, but today also extremely grateful to all those who have stopped by...including you.

Tell me, please, how did you get to 2,000,000 unique visitors?

How do you plan to get there? 

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