I just had my annual blog review with my "boss", and it was not
good. Although the quality of my posts were acceptable, the quantity was lacking. I have officially been placed on a
corrective action plan. Which is totally ridiculous, considering I don’t get paid
to write this blog. I’m so ticked off;
you’ve got to hear how stupid this plan is.
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According to Mr. Ballbreaker (pretty much my alter ego) my blog was good, but I lacked
consistency and quantity. Ideally I
should have been posting one blog a week.
I pled my case, I have a life, I have a full time job, and a fledgling
spice business. I even played the "just bought a new house card", but it all fell
on deaf ears. The new target for 2013 is
one blog post a week, if I want to stretch for the optimal goal I need to post
every 5 days. Thanks, Mr. BB, I guess
sleep and free time are highly overrated.
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| Gratuitous Beef Short Ribs |
Oh and get this, to meet my optimal target my blog must also
include the addition of video posts. I
now have to shoot at least 4 videos this year.
Is he freaking kidding?? I don’t know jack squat about shooting and
editing videos. Does anyone remember the
spatchcock chicken video? My wife and
sister both said it was "serial killer" creepy. I don’t know what I’m going to do; I guess I’ll
figure it out.
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It looks like I’ve got a lot of work to do this year, but
I’m up for it. Weekly posts, videos, photo staging. I almost forgot, I need to grill more. Cooking pork butt for 12 hours is great, but
it’s like watching grass grow, slow and boring.
You know, for a non-paying job this is turning out to be a lot of
work. Like Mr. BB said, “just cause
you’re doing it for fun doesn’t mean you can do it half-assed.”
When you work for yourself, your boss is the world's biggest Ahole, I agree.
ReplyDeleteI dabbled with the video but it didn't really help with traffic. No one wants to spend the time to watch a full recipe video unless you are someone like Foodwishes.com. But where there IS value added to bloggers like me and you would be 1 minute or less tip or technique videos that supplement a recipe post. That's my opinion anyway :)
Thank for the advice Chris. I wanted to shoot some videos last year but never got around to it. Actually, I want to shoot video to practice for my big break on Food Network
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