Who do you write for?
I’m going to be blunt: I’m tired of being niched in different topics on different blogs. I love gadgets, gaming, emerging web technologies, relationships, business…I have diverse interests. I write about what I’m passionate about. I had a gaming community just for games, tech blog just for tech, business for business, get the point? I have a site for sex and relationships. On 9rules there are 30+ communities I can write in whenever the mood suits me.
But that doesn’t solve one underlying problem: not being able to write about what I want on one site. Because I’ve been told to be successful the more niched the content, the better it is. Especially for commercial purposes.
I tried to play the game, I really did but I can’t change who I am to conform to something I don’t even believe in anymore. I refuse to have a site that only shows a part of me. I feel silly saying “my professional side is here, my fun side is over there, my deep-thinking side is on yet another blog…â€. Should my desire to enjoy life conflict with my professionalism? I don’t think it should.
I joined 9rules as a member because my readers made the suggestion to submit my site. Honestly, I was reading Scrivs’ blog off and on for a while, but I got the shock of my life when I started interacting with him on ScrivsTyme. The Whitespace/Wisdump site is a small sliver of who he is. I asked multiple times for a podcast, Scrivs was not feeling it. When Mike suggested doing videos, the idea was so amusing Scrivs laughed. Look at him now. The professional serious side is cool and Scrivs does well balancing the different (for lack of another word) perceptions that his multiple sites have.
I don’t want to do it anymore. My online personality is not different than my offline one. But what’s really interesting to me, and what prompted me to do this, is that the multiple sites don’t have different audiences. My audience wants to hear what’s on my mind, so why am I splitting myself off into different blogs?
About Tyme is Tyme being herself. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious. Sometimes geeky, sometimes curious and puzzled. Sometimes comments will be open, sometimes they won’t but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to interact with you. I might post a note about it on 9rules or I might write about something I read – go to their site and talk about it…they started the conversation, seems fitting they should hold it on their site, right?
People said a female couldn’t have a successful gaming site. I did it.
People said ScrivsTyme would interfere with 9rules. Don’t think so.
People said 9rules wouldn’t succeed. We’re happily married and we’re adding more kids to the family.
People said one shouldn’t write about diverse topics on the same blog. Tyme proving them wrong again…
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