Gotta Get a Gimmick?

Indie in Mind, Soul and Radio Julia Dudek Author of Pieces: My Firs...

Gotta Get a Gimmick?

The key to any popular blog is a Niche, a Gimmick–leave them wanting more…

There are actually people who have thousands of visitors in one day. Thousands! Thousands is what I've had since October when I started this blog.

But…blogging is not a popularity contest. Ok, um yeah it kinda is. With Freshly Pressed nipping at the desires if only to get that one moment of popular demand how awesome would that be?

Eh that would be cool. The thing is though, I don't have a gimmick or a niche. I started this blog to talk about the journey of my self publishing experience. And that's what I've done. But now it's been 3 1/2 months since my book went live and I'm still working on things. Trying to make friends first, gain knowledge, get reviews and find my stool to sit on in this vast world of indie authors. But this whole process doesn't lend itself to too many bells and whistles.

I could talk about my life, but you've already seen it in a movie called "Office Space" except there's really no humor to it. I live a very uneventfully dull life. It's if 'Office Space' and 'Groundhog day' had an illegitimate love child in a high school bathroom and left it on the church steps to be raised by nuns. That is the life of Allison B. Levine.

So, therefore, that will not be my gimmick. I guess my "gimmick" is to just talk about what strikes my fancy day-by-day. However, I've read that in order to have a successful blog that's exactly what not to do. Nobody cares what stikes me fancy. (That was my Brittish accent) The proverbial 'they' want me to talk about Pop Culture, Celbrity Gossip, Favorite TV Show, Political Debates, What Foreign Country I just visited and the amazingly stunning photography it produced.

That's not me. I can't regurgitate things that are current, popular or known because I don't have knowledge in that. Not trying to be an ahole it's just that I've never been one to be up on current events, fashion, or popular music.

I don't read the news, I don't watch live TV as a matter of fact I am now in the middle of my Supernatural marathon (season 5). I can talk about that because I'm completely obsessed with this show–so much so I realized I actually used the word "Gank" today. Haven't used that since 1992.

So as you can read I'm behind the times almost all the time. And honestly I'm ok with that.

Oh I just remembered the one gimmicky thing I've done was try to start #ShamelessPlugFriday on Twitter–I will continue to rock that on, maybe someday it will pick up more steam. (Thanks Catherine Stein!)

So my question to you all today is What's Your Gimmick?

Be honest, don't worry I won't steal it.