I think I'm going to start charging a fee for every person I have to deal with that just doesn't get it.
Whether it's in life, in work, or even sometimes in play... the amount of time I've wasted trying to get people to understand the web, my work, or how I work is mind-blowing.
As a blogger (because, even though I run my own site, I'm still not a journalist, and am technically a blogger) people just assume you don't really know what you're doing. I think I've carved a pretty good reputation for myself as far as work and writing goes - but not everyone I deal with knows that.
But all the print people don't know that. Advertisers don't know that. PR people don't know that.
(I realize that there are print/advertising/and PR folk who really DO get bloggers and the web and are fabulous beyond all belief, but for this post, I'm only talking about the ones that do my fucking head in, OK?)
So when I say, "Oh our readership is like this and like that and will respond to this!" or "People on Google aren't searching for 'periwinkle German flip-flops' so maybe we shouldn't title the post that"..." I tend to find that people just don't believe me.
I'm wrong. I don't know what I'm talking about.
I'm a blogger. I'm a girl. I'm not a journalist, I don't have a BA in Knowing Everything, surely YOU are the advertiser, YOU are the journalist, YOU are the PR and YOU are KEEPER OF THE GATES OF WEB KNOWLEDGE so therefore I should just listen to you.
And why is this?
Oh. Because there are tons of really, really stupid bloggers out there.
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