Comments on: A Meeting with Portland State University

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 21:45:00 +0000

Hey Dan, I think you could build traffic more effectively to this site by just posting more blogs (like every day updates or at least four to five times a week). Also, perhaps weekly videos. Maybe don’t spend so much time editing, just put up a few minutes of raw footage of you playing, talking, or just even what you’re having for breakfast that day.

I think, like some others have commented, your seemingly dwindling posts and updates have started to lose some of your fans, even the dedicated ones. If you pay a lot of money to some internet company to funnel traffic to this site, it will be even more important that you update consistently and with interesting and revealing content.

In all honesty, there has been a major shift in this blog, in my opinion.

There’s been a distinct lack of energy, a lack of disclosure of the various ups and downs in a timely fashion. As a result, the immediacy and intimacy of it has been lost, and makes reading less enjoyable. How can we cheer for your highs if you never allow us to truly experience your lows? You discuss your lows as being in the past, when you’ve already started to get past them…

If this is going to really work, you’ll need to start being much more candid and forthright. You don’t OWE us that, but you will need to do it if you want the readership, support, and money that comes along with it.

I gave you money a long time ago, but then I stopped because I didn’t feel that you were continuing to put forth the same effort to connect with the audience any longer. When your interest waned, so did ours (this can also be seen in the lack of comments on your posts).

I know this is a highly critical comment, but please take it as its intended. You’re hitting a difficult point in this project, but you won’t get through it just doing business as usual or paying some internet guru to drive traffic to your site. You’ll get it by going back to what you were doing in the beginning that worked, and letting your audience into your world.

Best of luck.

Aaron

By: 3foot1

3foot1 — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:47:00 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve clicked on the site much less frequently as your daily log updates have become much less frequent. For those of us who may be following you for vicarious reasons, knowing what you do EACH DAY is a way of connecting with you and the plan. To log in and see nothing for a week or ten days is discouraging. Your multi-month hiatus from posting your handicap was even more frustrating – and I’ve been a fan from the two-month mark. Anyway, I hope the approaching halfway point will re-energize you and your commitment to the site. I trust you daily remember the first steps of the journey, putting for hours in the rain… Kinda like my handle: 3 foot, 1 putt.

By: Dave Petersen

Dave Petersen — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 04:33:00 +0000

I understand that it is necessary to get some investors to fund the start up costs, and there may be some critiques, which you need to address, at least in your own mind, even if you don’t agree. However, PGA golf is essentially about playing golf for money. It’s like pool. You need to fund the game by winning other people’s money.

I’ve played music for years, and seen lots of reason’s for doing it, but if you’re going to be a professional musician, sooner or later you have to sell tickets. Even if you are a side player, you have to be able to say I can do the job of generating a performance that sells tickets. A pro-golfer, has to win real money, from tournaments and side plays. That’s part of the 10,000 hours.