blah-g post on my website on selling one’s house and social media brain and what it taught me about writing etc. and I will link to this, of course.
But since I don’t have the energy and headspace or ability to even hit tab to create indents for paragraphs, I will continue to use my replies (however short or long) to your essays and posts (there’s a difference regardless of where or how it’s published) as my only writing:
“The bottom line is that metrics don’t write books.”
Metrics don’t sell houses either. Metrics don’t do anything but be the arse wiping paper that they are.
Case in point: our house went up for sale. Zillow is the Google of house buying and selling. Meaning it scrapes information from legit databases for agent listings nation-wide. how do they make money? They sell that information to local companies. Already received invites in mail for movers, credit cards, etc.
Week one: over 1000 views, 200 saves.
200 saves!!!
Whohoo!!! Let’s go!
Number of actual requests for viewing: 21.
I will not be getting into how many out of these 21 that week lacked the imagination to visualize very accurate photos or how many of these visitors were “shocked” that we had stairs despite gorgeous and clear photos showing the split-level home.
21 actual visits in that one week. 200 “saves” on Zillow which is the social media platform for homes. Just one week.
One buyer is all it takes, all that we needed, all that it took.
Of course, one might argue that one buyer of a book etc doesn’t allow one to make a living as a writer (but you have already written extensively about that), but tell you what? Finding that one reader who sincerely appreciates that which you wrote is what the metric can never measure.
I wish I had known the value of that one reader as soon as I started. I do now.
When I have the energy I plan on writing a
blah-g post on my website on selling one’s house and social media brain and what it taught me about writing etc. and I will link to this, of course.
But since I don’t have the energy and headspace or ability to even hit tab to create indents for paragraphs, I will continue to use my replies (however short or long) to your essays and posts (there’s a difference regardless of where or how it’s published) as my only writing:
“The bottom line is that metrics don’t write books.”
Metrics don’t sell houses either. Metrics don’t do anything but be the arse wiping paper that they are.
Case in point: our house went up for sale. Zillow is the Google of house buying and selling. Meaning it scrapes information from legit databases for agent listings nation-wide. how do they make money? They sell that information to local companies. Already received invites in mail for movers, credit cards, etc.
Week one: over 1000 views, 200 saves.
200 saves!!!
Whohoo!!! Let’s go!
Number of actual requests for viewing: 21.
I will not be getting into how many out of these 21 that week lacked the imagination to visualize very accurate photos or how many of these visitors were “shocked” that we had stairs despite gorgeous and clear photos showing the split-level home.
21 actual visits in that one week. 200 “saves” on Zillow which is the social media platform for homes. Just one week.
One buyer is all it takes, all that we needed, all that it took.
Of course, one might argue that one buyer of a book etc doesn’t allow one to make a living as a writer (but you have already written extensively about that), but tell you what? Finding that one reader who sincerely appreciates that which you wrote is what the metric can never measure.
I wish I had known the value of that one reader as soon as I started. I do now.
That’s all there is.