Super Geek May Updates
Last week’s post was the most successful we’ve had yet. I’m very excited at the way things are going for Super Geek Life. Thousands of people read and interacted with the post. Many people shared it and that is the ultimate form of flattery.
Creating one of these posts per week is an exercise worthy of the site in and of itself. It is the meta-task. As I do all the things I refer to in the articles: The experiments, the reviews, the book reading and research I’m learning so much myself. When you flit through the previous articles what you’re actually seeing is my own evolution. You’re seeing me become better. My goal is to take the things that I’m passionate about and put them out there. I want to help show people that they can do it too. You just have to be willing to try.
Keeping the site up is fun though it is a challenge. I have a list of things that I will end up doing and the list is long enough believe you me. I have enough topics and things in the pipeline to last me for years (assuming one substantive article per week).
In doing this I’m actually improving my marketing and branding skills. I’ve read the book “The Art of Social Media” by marketing and product evangelist legend Guy Kawasaki. Guy used to be a product evangelist for Apple and has blazed trail in modern marketing. At any rate I’m adding social media marketing and analytics to my list of sharpened skills as a result of the site. I’m learning so much each day. The interesting thing is that I’m starting to gain traction and I see the numbers reflect this. I was surprised to see how well last weeks article did.
I don’t mean that I thought it was a weak article, quite the contrary, I thought it was a great article and I was quite passionate. It was about gender equality and geekyness and I mentioned my children. It was a meaningful article. That being said though I didn’t put as much work into it as I did with other posts. I did not need any previous research or work. It was a philosophical rant. Many of my other articles require me having done something for several days, or read several books in order to produce an article.
So this tells me that I got the acutal targeted marketing worked out for that particular article. I’m proud of this fact. I will continue to improve these skills and I can see the numbers reflecting this. My end goal is of course to eventually have a stream of revenue so that I can supplement the experiments. To be able to do that I need to keep increasing my readership, which is happening.
We’ve got some exciting things int he pipeline currently. In a couple of weeks I’ll be done with a 30 day yoga challenge and I will have some interesting insights for that. I have to swallow my pride because of many preconcieved notions I had about yoga. Well here’s a little sneak peak…my preconcieved notions were wrong.
We’re on day 95 of Duo-Lingo and Italian is a breeze. In about another month I’m going to start another language while continuing to keep up with Italian.
We’re on day 101 of Headspace and I’ve almost completed my third pack.
Still journaling strong every day.
We should have an actual store up soon, so expect on the facebook page or ont he website (or both) to see some t-shirts start appearing.
I’m still figuring out the details of this but it shouldn’t be too hard.
I’ve got some nifty batman utility belt items that I’ve constructed that we can expect a video on.
I’m planning on doing a run down article on Tim Ferris books and Tony Robbins books I’ve read that have affected me greatly recently.
We’ll also see more “hero skill” segments peppered in. I’m thinking for every 2 long form posts requiring a lot of up front work I’ll pepper in one of the hero skills. This seems like a good balance. The fact of the matter is that I can’t always provide a long substantive article due to timing, but I always have something in the works. Some of the articles take months worth of work to get together. Super Geek Life technically started 2 months prior to the actual launch. I required the lead up time in order to get all the material together.
Oh as a side note, enjoy the picture of my new favorite funny shirt.
Oh and Super Geek Did something neat. I organized my geek weapon stash. I’m sure the neighbors love it. I also have a new motorcycle (new to me, it’s old but pristine…a 1997 Suzuki Intruder 1400). This could mean some new interesting geek topics.
Expect next week to be a return to the norm. Stay Geeky folks!
