Describe your Blog in 120 characters or less!
By TomM on Apr 13, 2009 in Fun Stuff
Here is a little experiment – how would you describe your blog in 120 characters or less?
Now, here is the reasoning behind this experiment – Twitter!
Twitter is forcing people to become more succinct in their communication habits given all you have is 140 characters to post about yourself or to carry on a conversation.
Lets take it one more step – within Twitter you have a concept of a Retweet. The significance here is lets say you would like to publish a piece of content and hope it becomes ‘viral’ in your community. You need to post with less than 120 characters so people can repost your thoughts to their community while still giving credit to you.
Here is the crux of this little experiment — > ‘pitch’ your community on why we should read your blog.
Here’s how it’ll work:
- Over the next 5 days use the comment section of this post open for you to give an elevator pitch for your blog.
- To keep the ‘pitches’ short – you have to do it in 120 characters or less.
- Keep it family friendly please so no porn, no mlm, and no garbage.
- Sell your blog to us in any way you like as long as it’s 120 characters. Use humor, tell us what it’s about, tease us… what ever you want.
- Feel free to use your blog’s name in the ‘name’ field in the comments section and to leave the URL in the URL section to help you save on characters.
- Please only pitch one blog to us. If you have multiple blogs just pick your best one.
- After the weekend, I’ll close the comments on this post
- There will be no summary list of all blogs submitted. However, a few of my examples of your pitches will be highlighted in the 2nd post.
- If you don’t see your comment come up immediately please be patient. All comments are queued for moderation – we’ll get to it. There’s no need to add a 2nd comment.
Next steps after you submit your comments:
– Subscribe to my feed to be notified when the project ends so you can come back and surf the list!
– Follow me on Twitter so you can check out the RT’s of some of the best examples.
– point people to this experiment and encourage them to surf through the list and find some new blogs to read. Also encourage people to link up to the ones they find and enjoy reading.
I’m really looking forward to seeing how you pitch your blog (I think it’s important to be able to sell your blog in a few words so hopefully this is a useful exercise) but also to discovering some great new blogs!
As a thank you, any blogs I retweet, showcase or talk about – I will donate 50$ on behalf of the blog owner to 12for12k this month. Also, I will send 50$ iTunes gift card to the blog owner as a token of appreciation for helping out 12for12k.
Thanks all.
ps. This is a re-purposed post inspired by Darren Rowse of Problogger.net – who is running his own project now — 31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Join 9100 other Bloggers Today!
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