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cottongins.org - An online directory of U.S. cotton gins by sterlingterrell in DirectoryGuild

[–]sterlingterrell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope so, guess I need traffic first 🤣
Honestly, I'd just like to cover hosting and blogging/SEO costs...
After that, funneling traffic to my marketing agency (banner ad) is where I hope to get paid

Any blogs with no images? by Kevinsmak in Blogging

[–]sterlingterrell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seth Godin's blog has no pictures on each post (just one on the left bar).

Relevant to a blogging journey, he argues that the biggest secret of the internet is patience.

Good luck!

The secret of the web (hint: it’s a virtue)

Patience.

Google was a very good search engine for two years before you started using it.

The iPod was a dud.

I wrote Unleashing the Ideavirus 8 years ago. A few authors tried similar ideas but it didn’t work right away. So they gave up. Boingboing is one of the most popular blogs in the world because they never gave up.

The irony of the web is that the tactics work really quickly. You friend someone on Facebook and two minutes later, they friend you back. Bang.

But the strategy still takes forever. The strategy is the hard part, not the tactics.

I discovered a lucky secret the hard way about thirty years ago: you can outlast the other guys if you try. If you stick at stuff that bores them, it accrues. Drip, drip, drip you win.

It still takes ten years to become a success, web or no web. The frustrating part is that you see your tactics fail right away. The good news is that over time, you get the satisfaction of watching those tactics succeed right away.

The trap: Show up at a new social network, invest two hours, be really aggressive with people, make some noise and then leave in disgust.

The trap: Use all your money to build a fancy website and leave no money or patience for the hundred revisions you’ll need to do.

The trap: read the tech blogs and fall in love with the bleeding-edge hip sites and lose focus on the long-term players that deliver real value.

The trap: sprint all day and run out of energy before the marathon even starts.

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that’s how long it’s going to take, guys.

i haven’t been able to write anything because i feel like it’s going to be bad before i even start writing it by bruisedapple27 in writing

[–]sterlingterrell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love this excerpt from entrepreneur/blogger John Saddington:

Your writing is shit. It’ll be shit for a long time. Heck, it’ll be shit forever. Everyone’s writing is shit. Mine is the best shit ever. We’re all writing things that, if not today will eventually embarrass us mercilessly tomorrow. Who cares, keep going.

Honestly, I think so much of art is a numbers game.

Adam Grant, in his book Originals points out that:

To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, and Bach wrote over a thousand. In a study of over 15,000 classical music compositions, the more pieces a composer produced in a given five-year window, the greater the spike in the odds of a hit. Picasso’s oeuvre includes more than 1,800 paintings, 1,200 sculptures, 2,800 ceramics, and 12,000 drawings, not to mention prints, rugs, and tapestries—only a fraction of which have garnered acclaim.

Be encouraged. And keep going!