Superhero Day Jobs and a cleverly disguised subscriber drive
November 16th, 2008
I noticed the other day whilst looking through my traffic logs that last month there was a huge spike in people visiting here after looking for the keywords ’superhero day job’. It makes sense that they would find my site, I’ve occasionally spoken about Superheroes, once or twice and ‘day job’ is a given.
Now I’m all for giving the people what they want, well depending on what that is, obviously if you’re looking for a glowing report on where the Indiana Jones franchise has recently gone you’ve knocked on the wrong virtual door. You’re not even on the right virtual planet.
But a look at Superhero day jobs is certainly something I can do, more than happy to in fact.
So you’re not going to want to miss this, I mean we’re talking dry wit, we’re talking sarcasm, a sadly comprehensive knowledge of comic book characters and I may even draw some custom pictures for the posts.
I’ve just started redirecting the feed back into feedburner which I left for a long time but am back to because I want the stats and stuff and I figure now is as good a time as any to go on a subscriber drive.
So as an encouragement I am offering one of my marker drawings of any character of the winner’s choosing. All you have to do to be in the running to get your very own original marker drawing is to either:
- subscribe to the feed and leave a comment advising you have done so
- or if you already subscribe put a link in one of your own posts suggesting people subscribe to Quit Your Day Job (you should probably let me know via email or comment)
- have someone mention your name in a comment as the person who gave them the heads up to visit and subscribe
On December 12th I will draw the name of the winner out of a hat or some other sort of available receptacle for example if there are few enough entries I may do it from a coffee mug - you probably don’t need to know that…
I will then draw the requested character in a similar style to my existing drawings and send it out before the end of the year.
You are welcome to enter a couple of times, say if you subscribe and then you post about it on your own site that will equal two entries, if you mention it and link to Quit Your Day Job three times - that’s three entries. If ten people subscribe and leave comments advising that you were the one who suggested they come then that’s… that’s pretty cool and I’ll probably send you a drawing anyway! At the very least though you’ll have ten entries.
So go forth and spread the word of the little green robot.
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Categories: Promotions, QYDJ | Tags: comic book characters, drawings, feedburner, Indiana Jones, markers, sarcasm, subcribe, superheroes
what does feedburner do differently than the standard rss feed button on a browser or a stat counter? I’ve got a major collection of alike sites but I never got around subscribing my ass off to all of them (also including all technorati etc).
Now let’s see if I can lure someone to this site..
Arjans last blog post..The many different ways to say ‘comment’
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By Lee on November 16th, 2008 | Reply
Feedburner funnels your feed through their website so you can keep a closer eye on your statistics etc.
At least that’s how I understand it
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