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RE: Engagement, Community Building and Social Media — It's Up to YOU!
I guess my impression when I joined this site was that it was more of a blogging site and less of a social network. I didn’t realize that success here is 99% networking and 1% quality of your content. Ok maybe not that skewed, but pretty lopsided. This is fine! I am not complaining. I am just saying that I when I joined I was under the impression that it was a viable approach to just write quality content, not “engage”, and still be successful.
Admittedly, I had a similar impression @dollarsandsense.
That said, last go around I built a successful blog, it was on the back of interaction, too... I was "visible" in 100's or related niche forums and groups, and an active commenter on similar blogs of quality... eventually had a following of about 18K, which regularly meant 3-4K page views on a new post.
I think it’s probably the same in any creative industry. When you are just starting out, whether as a blogger, musician, stand up comic, or painter, you need to engage with your audience or you probably won’t go anywhere.