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  • 10rocket’s Blog Challenge

    I’ve known Chris Turner, the founder of 10Rocket since early last year, when he and I met at Tech Talent South. Shortly after that, Chris enrolled in The Iron Yard‘s Ruby on Rails software developer course, because he wanted to be able to build the software product that he had envisioned. A few months later, Chris showed up at Pitch Practice and started working on his pitch for what is now 10Rocket.

    Since then, 10Rocket has rocketed to some serious success as Chris refined his pitch to what it is now:

    We build MVP web apps for startups in 2 weeks for $5k.

    Boom. Well, last time Chris showed off his pitch at Pitch Practice, I reminded him that 10Rocket needs to start telling its story via a blog. They came out swinging today on Medium. Chris is right: most blog posts teach you something or make a list or tell you “How to” this or that, but few posts cause you to do something. 10Rocket’s first blog post challenged its readers to write a haiku about their startup. Brilliant!

    To take it even further, 10Rocket wrote a haiku about Atlanta Tech Blogs in this tweet.

    Not bad! And the challenge caused me to write my own haiku about Atlanta Tech Blogs:

    Atlanta Tech Blogs
    We help you tell a story
    Everyone can hear

    Which do you like better?  What is your blog challenging your readers to do?

  • Learn Something New

    I read a lot of blogs every day. A lot of blogs. Today, one of John Saddington’s four blog posts today (he blogs for himself and for Desk) caught my eye and made me think. John wrote about Roost, a plugin for WordPress that enables Safari users to get push notifications of new posts.

    So what? I use Chrome. Why would I care about Safari users? I’m teaching Digital Marketing at GA, and one of the topics we’re covering is segmenting in Google Analytics. Just for kicks, I checked out the traffic that Atlanta Tech Blogs gets from Safari users, both desktop and mobile. Whaddya know! More than 30% of the visitors to Atlanta Tech Blogs are Safari users. That ranks second only to Chrome users. Who knew?

    So I had to eat a bunch of my own dog food as I teach the DGM class, and it was a really good example to show:

    • How our customers/users can be segmented
    • How we can address each segment in a different way
    • That we can offer each segment something of value
    • That we need to practice what we preach :-)
    • That we can all learn something by reading others’ blogs
    • That we are all more likely to make a purchase (or download) when someone we trust recommends it.

    Saddington is about as smart as technologists come, so I trust his advice. Roost was extremely easy to install and get running, so now I can offer my Safari visitors something of value: push notifications.