Well, I am very heartened by the response of two people visiting my blog and making a comment. I only searched for ten blogs, and made ten comments on each, and two people showed up here to post on my blog. So far, that's 20%. Not bad. In ten days or less, I should realize my goal to get ten permanent groupies or regulars to my site. I'll keep my end of the bargain, and be a regular on their blogs as well.
One point to keep in mind, you may get some early volunteers, people who will like the idea, but will eventually drop off. Being a rent-a-groupie is a small investment of time, even spending five minutes on each blog, times ten, is almost an hour burned. Now I think that is a good sacrifice because people spend a considerable amount of time writing on their own blogs that nobody ever sees, when they could get better results posting just a little less, and spending a bit more time reaching out to others. Anyway, your commitment level may not match your rent-a-groupie, and you should factor in losing a few due to attrition so you might have to blog hunt to find your groupies for a month before the dust settles, and you have your ten daily visitors to your blog. I will keep my promise and expect my partners to do the same, but give a little latitude, sometimes everyone gets sidetracked, groupies can always come by and revisit earlier posts and make comments if they miss a day or two.
One or two sentences comment is all it takes, as long as it is on topic to the blog post. Looking back yesterday, I could have done better. I was wanting to see if the initial response to the idea of the groupie exchange would be a positive one. Now that I know it is, I can participate better. Doesn't have to be anything really great, just a few words of your own (and my own) about each particular post we are responding to. Sometimes I use the sound recorder and online dictation to accomplish this. Everybody can throw their two cents in, and it really helps us all.
One comment on my blog was that another blog owner wanted 10,000 rent-a-groupies. I think 10,000 real groupies would be ideal, but if you had 10,000 rent-a-groupies, then you yourself would have to make 10,000 posts a day. That's too much, not enough time in the day to do that. With ten rent-a-groupies, you could reciprocate ten times, and that is much more reasonable and do-able. You want 10,000 "real" groupies, and then you are a rockstar! Your blog will be featured as the leading blog for your industry, and you are going to make some serious money,
I saw this in action when I was in network marketing. My first program I joined started with an "A" and ended in a "WAY". People accuse that company with being a cult. I saw sort of, I wouldn't classify it as a cult , but they do use very good behavior modification techniques. For example, each week there was a meeting for new prospective people for the business called an open. At the open meeting, they would describe the business and how it worked. It would be a very motivational and high pitch experience. But one strange thing I saw when I went, as an already recruited member, you were expected to attend these open meetings, even though you were already in the company. There might only be one or two new people, but you would have 50 people or so in the room. And the regulars would be taking notes. And they would themselves be participating. You would hear them agree in earnest about what the speaker was talking about, and have little sidebars talking to one another about "Man, this is great - WOW". And those real legitimate newcomers would often fall right in, since everyone else in the room was already "fired up". And if they see the man on their right taking notes, and the women on the left taking notes, and everyone is taking notes; - a pen and a pad of paper was thrust into their hands, and guess what, the new person would take notes; LOL seriously!! - not even being aware that the man or women on the right and left was already in, and has been to an open meeting at least a hundred times and could get up on the podium and starting giving the meeting themselves. People often follow the crowd, and in this example, it works very effectively in the decision making process.
So my theory knowing that from my networking past is that if you have enough posts to your blog, some real people will start to find their way to your blog, and see all these posts, and they will fall right in, and start making comments unsolicited. That will attract a few more and before you know it, you are becoming one of the more popular blogs on the net. And at that point, you blog takes on a life of its own - you just sit back and let it all play out. Now you're the expert, you are the leader people look to. Folks will hang on your every word as if it was gospel. You say "turn left", and they will turn left. You say "buy this" and they will buy, and not only will they buy, they will thank you for it; and they will even love you for it. See how it works? All because you got a few rent-a-groupies.
Here is a great example of a blog filled with groupies. It is a well attended blog. Now, I am NOT recommending his program. I did buy it before he started the blog, and I am a bit disappointed with it. DO NOT BUY! Just read the blog, and look at how many people commented on his postings
DO NOT BUY! NOT RECOMMENDED! FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY:
http://www.therichjerk.com/blog/
He doesn't even post to his own blog everyday. He's is a jerk, and he markets himself that way, and people fall all over for it. It's easy to be a jerk, everybody has a little jerk inside them, and for this guy, he's making money from that tendency. So he has some love mail, some hate mail, and no matter what, he has mail. Even those who hate him, are reading "his" blog. If you could get 30 plus posts a day to a regularly posted blog, you are on your way. You figure that for every post, at least ten times that amount of real people have read that blog. It's a GIMMICK, but people are eating it up. He's the number one eBook seller in his category, folks are hanging on to every word he is saying. And he is laughing his way to the bank - he gets to be a jerk and take their money - and many love him for that, Incredible. So if you find something that works, duplicate it. Don't copy being a jerk, just figure out how he does it, and incorporate your own personal template into it.
So I think the rent-a-groupie program will work. You still need your regular methods of promoting your blog, but I think the rent-a-groupie will enhance your efforts. We'll see.
Jeff
http://www.onlinebonuses.com
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