Comments on: Remedies for the Small Blogger Blues

By: thank you! small is beautiful. « hope sprouts designs.

thank you! small is beautiful. « hope sprouts designs. — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:07:58 +0000

[...] dear friend Rachelle who chatters away at Magpie Girl has bestowed upon me the first ever “Small is Beautiful Award” for my [...]

By: Tunic Goodness « Enthusiastically Human

Tunic Goodness « Enthusiastically Human — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:06:47 +0000

[...] Another article of interest is this entry from Magpie Girl on Small Blogger Blues. I don’t really have the blues about it, but I am a “small” blogger. To be hones, I read a lot out there, but am reading so quickly I don’t take time to comment. I can’t really call that bad or good. Let’s just call it “What’s happen’in right now.” Anyway, I like entry #8: “Remind yourself that you are writing for an audience of one. Make yourself a sticker that says “I heart authenticity.” [...]

By: Eve

Eve — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:54:58 +0000

I’m glad this idea did not fizzle. I loved the class at BlogHer. It was my favorite.

By: beth

beth — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:31:32 +0000

There definitely are some rewards to writing for a small audience. It’s much more personal.

By: The Journey Blog

The Journey Blog — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:59:29 +0000

And I do this why?…

Here is a great list of things to consider for “small bloggers.”
It hits on one of the things I’ve always asked other bloggers who didn’t have a huge amounts of traffic. Why are you blogging? Is it to become rich and famous (you…

By: Penelope

Penelope — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:25:52 +0000

Thanks for the boost and encouragement, Rachelle! It’s nice to know someone’s giving a thought to the little guys out there. Go fellow small bloggers, go!

By: kimblahg

kimblahg — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:18:53 +0000

I like these tips. I sometimes feel like there is no point to blogging since I feel no one is reading except the people from my real life that I really wish weren’t reading. However, I didn’t start my blaaahg for attention, I started it because I like to journal and I tend to keep it up when it is online. Maybe I am a bit of an attention whore after all… (Found you via KristyK, I really like your layout).

By: carol

carol — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:11:12 +0000

I really wanted to go to Blogher. It was in Chicago and I could have taken the train from Indiana and had an adventure all by myself, maybe. I was too chicken.

I participated in a blog carnival this week, posted everyday, left my blog addy on Mr. Linky and gone around and visited other blogs and left comments on the ones I enjoyed. I got about 100 hits yesterday and LOTS of comments! 10 comments in ONE day is LOTS to me! LOL!

Off now to say “Hello” to all the other small and proud of it bloggers!

By: Moxie-Mom

Moxie-Mom — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:43:30 +0000

Hi, my name is Moxie-Mom, and…I have a small blog!

(huge applause)

I’ve had a small blog for a few years now. But I always blamed others. Like my father-in-Law who would stalk my blog, even when I would change addresses.
Today, I am here to say that I embrace the small blog. It’s small, it’s beautiful, and it’s all mine.

Unless, of course, you want to stop by…

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:35:34 +0000

This couldn’t have come at a better time!
Great advice.
Thank you.

By: Marie T

Marie T — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:50:03 +0000

Small is beautiful! :) While it would be nice to have my blog become my job — I started it for wildly different reasons, which are still just as important.
Thanks for the perspective!

By: jen lemen

jen lemen — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:06:03 +0000

love this ever growing list! okay, one more–invite a non-blogging friend to start a blog, too! you can link to each other as an act of love daily!!! xo all

By: kristen

kristen — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:04:48 +0000

The reality is, most blogs are small blogs… with as many millions of blogs as there are now, isn’t an average readership about 10 people?

By: Moxie

Moxie — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:37:34 +0000

This is wonderful. Of course I’m blogging because my story does, indeed, matter. I just need the reminder as much as possible. If anything, I wish I had started sooner, because I feel like I lost a lot of stories.

I’ll be looking forward to seeing that google group. :)

By: thesuniverse

thesuniverse — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:50:03 +0000

I like the “I heart authenticity” idea. It helps to remember that the point (for me) is that I want to keep writing, and this is one way to do that.

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:28:33 +0000

Oh, I’m so glad to know that other people get the Small Blogger Blues, too! Sometimes I feel like I have the smallest blog in the world – which I guess is an achievement of sorts…

By: Shy Victoria

Shy Victoria — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:17:13 +0000

Very nice, thanks! : )

By: emma

emma — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:56:35 +0000

Lovely. Thank you…

By: Pretty Lush

Pretty Lush — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:28:00 +0000

A pleasant reminder that I never started my blog to have a following. That’s just icing.
Thanks.

By: Taste Like Crazy

Taste Like Crazy — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:53:54 +0000

But my Site Meter tells me that I HAVE to check it obsessively.
Is mine the only one that talks?