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NETWORKING IS MY ANSWER TO GROWTH

Posted on March 6, 2015 by Elle Knowles
NETWORKING IS MY ANSWER TO GROWTH

I’m excited. Are you excited? Snoopy and Charlie Brown are excited! Even though I’m not the tattoo artist she thought I was, thanks to tripleclicka I received my 400th follower on my blog last night and I slept through the whole thing. 😦 I’m on top of it now though!

Where did she find me? Through Julz of course on The Spare – A Place To Play! As Janice Wald mentioned to me in a comment this morning – “Networking is the answer to growth.”

Now tripleclicka (I would call her by name, though I didn’t find that info on her site – hint-hint) didn’t ask for this and I didn’t advertise it, but I’m going to send her a copy of  ‘Crossing The Line’ just as soon as she sends me her contact information. It’s the least I can do! You can get your copy of Crossing too if you just click on that book cover over to your right in my side bar. 😉

It may not be a big deal to you or the blogger who has followers in the thousands, however, to me the number 400 is a huge thing when you start from zero. It may have taken me two years to do it, but it was two years well spent and now I have 400 great new friends in my neighborhood to show for all that hard work! That’s pretty cool.

If you are visiting and reading come follow along on that follow button in the sidebar. You never know what I will do when I reach 500 or even 401! 😉

~Elle

 

 

 

 

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About Elle Knowles

Elle Knowles lives in the Florida Panhandle with her husband and off-at-college-most-of-the-time son. She has four daughters, one son, and eleven beautiful grandchildren. 'Crossing the Line' is her first novel. The sequel 'What Line' is a work in progress. Recently published is Coffee-Drunk Or Blind - a nonfiction story of homesteading in the Alaska wilderness with her parents and four siblings, told through letters by her mother and remembered accounts from the family.

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  1. Shel Harrington | March 7, 2015 at 10:58 pm

    Congratulations, Elle! I can sooooo relate to your excitement. I celebrate EVERY SINGLE new person who signs up for my email notices on the blogs – and wondered if anybody else felt the same way. Like you, I work hard to keep content relevant and interesting and when the numbers plateau, I wonder if I’m doing something wrong – if I’m not connecting. I feel so new to all this – I came to social media way after my peers had arrived, settled in, and became vets, clicking away with abandon. So, after two years of blogging, I’m still finding my way.

    Recently I started a new FB page for the Fat-Bottom-Fifties Get Fierce blog, with no idea how to get the word out. The answer, like you and Janice have said, is NETWORKING. I looked around and commented on other humor FB pages I liked. While I have fledgling numbers, a couple of vets with more established numbers noted my comments and graciously gave me a shout-out on their pages – which resulted in some of their readers “liking” my page. So appreciated! As I’ve said to you before, the lessons you have learned and passed on have been a big help as well as entertaining for me – thanks!

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  2. WagginMaster (aka Jerry) | March 7, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    Congrats on 400. I am approaching my first 100. Yay!

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  3. sounja | March 7, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    400!! That is wonderful. You are so inspiring to me 🙂

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  4. JMD398 | March 7, 2015 at 3:31 pm

    Congrats, and definitely will be sure to check you out. Thanks to tripleclicka

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  5. Janice Wald | March 7, 2015 at 2:59 am

    Hi Elle,
    1. I followed your blog via Email tonight. Sorry for my delay. I came in to follow your blog, and to my delight saw I was quoted in your article! Woo Hoo! I am going to put it in the “Shoutout” Section of my About Page. Thank you!
    2. As far as reblog Wednesday, is it a Twitter hashtag? We post someone else’s link though, yes? Not our own? Thanks again so much for the support this week. I reached 300, in part, thanks to you.
    3. Congratulations on 400 followers. That is amazing. It’s clear you have built a wonderful community.
    Janice

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    • Elle Knowles | March 7, 2015 at 8:14 am

      Thanks Janice, but it took me a while to accomplish that! Yes on #reblogwednesday. When you re-blog someone else’s blog on Wednesday go to this page – http://wp.me/P36w0d-Aa – and post the link with a short blurb about it in the comments and I will add to my participant page. When you re-blog five times you will get your very own page. Some are almost there! Then you can add your page on your site somewhere and everyone can easily get to all your re-blogs. Thanks for adding to your ‘shoutout section ‘ of your about page! I’ll go take a look. And thanks for the follow! 😉 ~Elle

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  6. Trudy | March 6, 2015 at 10:18 pm

    Congratulations!!! That’s an awesome achievement! I can’t wait to even reach a hundred! I need to work on my networking skills, lol.

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  7. Ally B. Jones | March 6, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    CONGRATULATIONS!! Awsome!

    Ally ~

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  8. Fimnora Westcaw | March 6, 2015 at 4:10 pm

    Congrats!!! A wonderful milestone! May journey go ever on.

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  9. julz | March 6, 2015 at 1:05 pm

    hi Elle – well good for you – and thanks so much for the plug for ‘the spare’ – was just made aware by @tripleclicka that she’d reblogged your post having found it on my ‘place to play’ – smile – I’d got a pingback but didn’t realise why!

    That’s really great – nice to know networking is working!
    told her to join your re-blogging Wednesday challenge!

    all the best

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  10. annepm2015 | March 6, 2015 at 12:01 pm

    Elle,

    Congratulations on your Crossing The Line series and your 400th follower on your blog. There is no question Networking does work to connect to people and get your name out there. I started blogging in early January, just before my latest book was published. If you have a moment, please check it out at https://annermurray.wordpress.com @ annepm2015
    Best wishes for success!

    Anne

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  11. Susannah Bianchi | March 6, 2015 at 10:29 am

    PS…love you put On Writing on your sidebar. Go Steve!!!

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  12. Susannah Bianchi | March 6, 2015 at 10:28 am

    Congrats….so happy for you 🙂

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  13. Dom | March 6, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Congrats! Hard work pays off.

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  14. Wysjoyfulcompany | March 6, 2015 at 10:04 am

    Reblogged this on Better Butterflies ! Seven Sights and Sounds and commented:
    I’m am so Wycited! Thanks Elle

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  15. Wysjoyfulcompany | March 6, 2015 at 10:02 am

    You think you were excited with your 400 followers , let me share my “JOY” piece today. When I went to your site and saw my book cover there , I smiled and said, “Now is the time to jump into finishing the next one. You got me on the #ReblogWendnesday wagon so I will try not to fall off. http://www.wyswords.wordpress.com

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  16. Faraday's Candle | March 6, 2015 at 9:59 am

    Wonderful hat your persistence paid off. The wonderful content has a lot to do with it.

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  17. tripleclicka | March 6, 2015 at 9:54 am

    Reblogged this on tripleclicka and commented:
    What a great lady! Congrats to you Elle!

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  18. tripleclicka | March 6, 2015 at 9:52 am

    I win, I win, I win!!!! I will find your via face book! Thank you! Just so you know, I could use some new ink!

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  19. 60while60 | March 6, 2015 at 9:51 am

    Congratulations Elle on 400 followers! That has to be a lot of work. I’m impressed.

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