Pitching your discussions
By mommyboo
@mommyboo (13174)
United States
November 27, 2008 7:02pm CST
So do any of you actively pitch or showcase your discussions in order to get more 'hits' and responses? I have to admit I'm not even sure how one would do that, but when I see something that has 80-150 responses, it's hard for me to believe there's not some networking or 'other thing' involved so that the discussion gets more exposure than the average.
BTW I am sitting here starting to eat my dinner (except for the part that isn't done) and I'm thankful for all the neat people I have met here, from the ones that log in every once in awhile to the ones that I see practically every day. It's been a fun half a year!
For anybody who DOES use outside ways to promote their discussions, what do you do? Do you send 500 friends a message about your pertinent, interesting, new discussion? LOL! Don't laugh at me, I'm just asking!
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I just post the discussion and let the chips fall where they may. If I get lots, great. If I get a few, that's great too 
Yes! If anyone takes their time to reply my discussions I thank them for it.
@grandpa_lash (5225)
• Australia
28 Nov 08
What my partner and I do is make sure we respond to each others' discussions and posts, and do the same with our friends' posts if they are even vaguely interesting, because this puts those posts back to the top of the Friends Started list. If you have a group of friends who tend to follow each others' discussions, a sort of community within the community, then this continuously refreshes the discussion. It seems to help a bit, but if a discussion is a turkey, nothing is going to revive it.
Lash
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@34momma (13882)
• United States
2 Dec 08
what i find helps out a lot is to make sure your friends have it where they are getting emailed your mylot discussions. make sure they turn that on. this way they are emailed to them and they don't have to log on and look around for topics they want to answer, they are all there in their email. however, promoting topics would be a great way to more referrals. maybe have a really great topic and email it o everyone in your email, and ask them to comment and let them know they can make money by doing so. i mean the possiblities are endless
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
29 Nov 08
Like you I wouldn't even know how to start hehe An to be honet I'm not sure if for me that is the spirit of being here or not. When things like this become that intense I'm just not sure it's the same thing anymore. It becomes a job instead of a place I enjoy coming to relax. ON the other hand making some more money is a nice thing too isn't it? LOL
Regardless I wouldn't be spamming my friends with messages personally. My friends who have me in myLot notifications will get notice of discussions I post, but that is a choice that they can make, but just start spamming people just to get a few more cents... I'm not sure :)
@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
28 Nov 08
Hey mommyboo! I've had two discussions that have had really
high amounts of responses and I have no idea why or how they
did! One was about my year anniversary of being clean and
sober and that one got 190 and the other was about mylot
making me smile and that one got about 80. I was shocked that
either one of them got blown out of the water like they did!
I did nothing to promote them in any way. They weren't even
answered by people that I knew! Not even all my friends
answered them! So it still remains a mystery to me how and
why those discussions took off the way they did! And I'm sure
it won't happen again. I did a discussion the other day that
got 44 responses. I think that will be the most I'll get.
@hildas (3031)
•
28 Nov 08
I have done a few discussions and got no responses and lately I have done a few and got 37 for one which was excellent. I think it is just about getting a good one that people will all have something to write about on it.
Well thats my opinion and I might be wrong. I know a few respond to their friends even if it is not their interest, just to be polite and support them.
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@sharra1 (6340)
• Australia
28 Nov 08
I must admit I am at a loss how people get that many posts. I have tried posting at different times of the day or night and it seems to make no difference. My best I think was 45.
I do go back to my discussion regularly to respond to people who reply as it lets them know that I care about their response and it also refreshes the discussion. There are so many new discussions all the time that one can get buried very quickly unless it gets a lot of early attention.
If you are lucky enough to have friends who actively post to your discussions then you do better. I have met some wonderful people this year and I am very happy about it. I now have a few who respond to my discussions and we have fun chatting back and forth. I think that is heaps of fun.
@leenie50 (3992)
• United States
28 Nov 08
Hello Mom,
Happy Thanksgiving!!
I'm not sure what you mean by pitching or showcasing my discussion! I have had a post where I received 71 replies and one where I received 81. No one could have been more shocked or surprised then me. The only thing I could think was that most of my friends have their email alert for me turned on and they just happened to like the discussion. How else or why else do we respond to posts?
leenie
