Since the last post on getting 100 zooms, I have learned a few things about that particular post. The post could have been a lot less complex. A simple can Bloggingzoom get 100 zooms would have probably been better. Now, I know 10 dollars is not that much to give away per person, but I thought it might be a motivating factor for about a minute of some peoples time. Also One larger prize may have been better than giving out several smaller prizes.

Bloggers Selfish? YES

The thing I really want to focus on though is the fact a great majority of bloggers are selfish. Sure, there are a lot of successful selfish bloggers out there, but the successful selfish ones know that by participating in things that they can be benefited on their own blog. But then there are other bloggers that want to spend no time to comment or do anything to help build the traffic they have. Yea I know, I know I posted that article on Wasting time on blogs, and that still holds true. You can waste time on blogs reading nonsense, like how much John Chow made for last month or a paid review, or a post on something that is totally unrelated to anything of value. Sure I choose what I want to read and I know you do too. But if you read everything that pops up on your screen you would barely accomplish anything.

Lack of Participation

Now moving on to my next thought about how a lack of participation can effect BloggingZoom. Lets say you just submit your own articles, or heck someone else is who we are talking about cause you are actually reading this. So lets say Joe Blow submits his blog posts to Bloggingzoom and he wants traffic to his site, but is not willing to even go to others submitted posts. Where does that leave him? Sure he might get a few impressions here and there and some traffic from Google, but he is not leaving a lasting impression anywhere. Thats what you want to do. Leave a lasting impression on people so they come back, and then they tell there friends when you post something great. If a person doesn’t give in some way, then how do they expect to get back by increasing a feed count or by getting visiting regulars or becoming popular with an online community?

Getting involved

Bottom line here, people have to get involved to see a nice return on an investment. If your blogging and spending all that time writing articles, then don’t you want a reader base? Don’t you want people to come see your blog? People just need to be involved! If you don’t zoom my posts, then zoom others and submit a few posts here and there from blogs that aren’t involved with Bloggingzoom yet. Imagine if 500 Bloggingzoom members submitted 1 post everyday from someone elses blog that had never used Bloggingzoom, how many new people do you think would sign up everyday and join in participating? Do you think this would be beneficial? Heck yes it would! This is what Court and Vic have been telling people. People can take some action and help themselves and help others. I am making it a goal to submit at least one post from a blog on the internet somewhere that may have never used BZ. If you read this post and do the same thing then more people can only benefit in the long run of things. Lets make variety count. Submit all different subjects and benefit the greater good of all bloggers.

Ok everyone this post is devoted to getting 100 zooms on Bloggingzoom in 24 hours.

Please ZOOM THIS POST on BLOGGINGZOOM! There I capitalized all that to draw eyes to it. Yes I admit that was intentional. Ok so heres the deal, I will be rewarding a few people for their efforts.

• First of all you must be a member of Bloggingzoom and you must have a paypal account.
• Second, you must leave a comment on this post with your BloggingZoom member ID so I can email you if you are a winner.

There will be a random drawing for all those who ZOOM this post in the next 24 hours which is the deadline. I will be drawing 2 people out of all those that zoomed this post in the last 24 hours IF it makes it to 100 zooms! Those 2 people will receive $5 dollars to their Paypal account, however here is a twist. If my blog feed count reaches over 100 and shows the number by Wednesday morning, I will be drawing a 3rd winner to receive $5 dollars via Paypal. All winners will be announced on my blog on Wednesday evening.

Have fun and thanks for the Zooms!!

Ok heres an update everyone is going to like. Vic, the cofounder of Bloggingzoom is adding an extra $5 bucks on top of the $5 dollars the first 2 people will receive, which means now that the first 2 people that are drawn will receive $10 dollars each!! If this isn’t sweet I dont know what is!!

I recently went to the theater to watch “August Rush” which was a well put together movie I must say. Great movie for a family to see. As I was standing in line to get popcorn with my wife I waited and waited and waited as the guy behind the counter just went as slow as an employee could go. I began to wonder why someone could be so slow when I have a movie thats starting in less than 2 minutes. Did this guy have no motivation because of the pay he was receiving, or was it the fact that He just didn’t care about offering good customer service?

Making sense of it all

I know this is a odd way to compare to hosting, but just think for a moment. Does it seem like your host ever just takes their time with what they tell you they may be able to do in a short time? Like any customer service now days, everyone in the western world expects answers and solutions quickly. If your hosting company doesn’t address things as quick as you would like them too wouldn’t it be good to find out the reason?

Going back to the guy at the Movie theater, I started thinking to myself that it was possible that this guy that I was in line waiting to get popcorn from may have had a long day of work and was tired and maybe that accounted for the slower pace. Maybe he was mentally slow or not quite as competent as other people working there. The expressions on this guys face were not that of carelessness and he was even very courteous, so this helped me to realize that my wanting the popcorn and drink right away was possibly not the full spectrum of things. Had I come 15 minutes early to the movie I would not have been in such a mad rush.

Whats going on with hosting

The point being here in application to your hosting is, sometimes you may not always see what is going on in the background where the actual people that host you work. For the fact that you may host your business which is your livelyhood, yes you have a right to expect uptime, but this is not the issue I am referring too. Whenever you may be moving the contents of a site and your host does it for free, keep in mind that there may also be 200 other people that have requested this before you. Keep in mind that when you are waiting for your site to propagate, that your hosting company can’t control that speed. When you have made an error of your own and deleted content from your own site, that was your mistake, don’t expect for your host to have your site restored within minutes. Or the fact that you may be asked to put in a ticket when you need something majorly changed on your site so that it can be documented.

We all expect good service thats no question, but many times our own forethought can save us a lot of trouble whether its related to hosting or its as simple as getting popcorn at a theater.