Happy birthday Pete Box of Analytics, this is the first anniversary post of my blog! One year old is learning to walk, step by step. I would like to know how you feel about the new name of the blog? At least I think it's better than previous "My work at Naviatech". Tell me your thoughts.First of all I can say the year has gone quickly and it's been fun, but also hard when you have a company to run and two small kids. Thank you, my ladies, for putting up with me when the husband/dad is playing with his blog mostly on weekends. And thank you sys and Mr. Ed for reviewing my texts once in a while. Now it's time to look back and analyze what has happened in a year. There has been:
- 30 posts - 2,5 posts per month
- 26 comments - 50 % of my own
- visitors from 41 different countries
- over 2,000 visits and 1,200 visitors - average 5 visits per day
I could try to find the visitor peaks by using the standard deviations but it doesn't make sense here because my blog has gained a little continuous growth of visitors. I did found out that these following posts have brought more than 25 visits per day:- post about Kalle Heinonen
- my sister's video interview
- Vierityspalkki's post about web analytics where they mentioned me with a link to my blog
- post after WAW in Stockholm where Eric Peterson had a presentation
Where are my blog readers? Well, I'm not that good in geographics and English is not my native language (as you have probably noticed) so I have to confess that I don't know a country named "not set"...is it like free for bids or not named yet? : )This blog started like a harmless test with no specific goals in mind. I have managed to share some information and experiences, but I would like to get more comments though (especially my Finnish friends who represent more than 80 % of the visitors). Please share your ideas with me and the content to other people as this blog is under Creative Commons licence.
Avinash Kaushik wrote one month ago a very good post about benefits of blogging. I agree every point. One of the biggest advertising agencies in Finland don't have a clue how to monetize blogging, butI have to say that one of the biggest benefits for me has been indirect sales. One big corporate hired me as a consultant and case SEA LIFE had something to do with their decision. And most of all, I have learned a lot while working with our customers, researching and creating stories.
Recently I have developed my blog by adding:
- rich content including photo gallery and video
- search functionality by Google custom search
- tags and keywords
- feeds
Here are my public goals for the next year:
- one post per week, not necessary long stories
- increase visits more than 100 %
- one comment per post (excluding mine)
- one hundred subscribers
- public speaking gigs (billable and non-billable)