360 Convos rocketed into the international scene with a featured post on Renbor Sales Solutions' blog, a Toronto, Canada Corp. |
Thank you Tibor Shanto.
People south of Canada tuned in, too. In the last two weeks alone, I received pageviews from 33 of the 50 United States: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, New York.
Do it. Figure out which ones are missing :-)
During that same time, 360 Convos also pulled in viewers from around the world including: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Lebanon, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Some of the posts took on a life of their own and appeared in other places . . .
Dining for Women, a national giving circle empowering women in the developing world, featured the blog post: Can a good dinner change the world?
The City of Gresham picked up a post on customer service for their intranet site, which gave me the opportunity to create the post: City shares good ideas (mine).
The Customer Collective, an “editorially independent, moderated blogging community for elite sales and marketing executives,” featured four posts:
1. Interupted Internet Access Causes Depression
2. Confessions of a Social Media Strategist [A LinkedIn Nightmare?]
3. The Genius of Google +1 vs Retweeting: Casting Your Online Vote
4. Google Analytics Confirm Declines in Website Visits
Porter Anderson, a former CNN journalist, shared his laptop power with me at a Writers Conference, tweeted and emailed a link to 800 other attendees of Words Motivate.
BlogHer.com, which boasts a following of 23 million women, featured a post I wrote on a visit to the Clark County Fair, Families Disrupted by Technology.
Canadian Sales Trainer Tibor Shanto, a favorite Twitter friend @Renbor, featured one of my posts on his blog: When the customer can't be consoled...
TOP 25. The lovely Paula G, career editor for BlogHer, promoted 360 Convos as one of the 25 Career and Business Women Bloggers Worth Reading.
Today, marks the 38th consecutive post. Don't ask me if I'll keep going. I'm still deciding.
In the meantime, I'd like to quote another Twitter friend, Jeremiah Owyang. He summed up a mutual experience on his blog when he wrote, “Even the smallest thing will lead to something bigger.”
Blogging creates its own form of energy and sends you places you hadn't imagined.
Where has your blog taken you??
If you'd like to read the other posts in the blogging series, try these:
What I learned from Jeremiah Owyang
that allowed me to take down Google*
*Almost
Tips for blogging everyday
Great is the enemy of good and other
things I learned from blogging
How blogging is like throwing stones
How blogging for 30 days in a row
leads to international acclaim