Celebrations of happy milestones - like births, graduations, weddings, store openings - tend to be a big deal. Not only from a personal perspective, but also from a larger perspective.The birth of Flooring The Consumer took place on June 27, 2006, and - as when my daughter was born - I have been keenly aware of each monthly milestone. Twelve months originally seemed so far into the future, and, yet, here it is.
As with my daughter's, I have learned from Flooring The Consumer's milestones -- especially since so many of them happened because of YOU who helped, encouraged, contributed, challenged, commented, subscribed and read!
This blog's latest milestones - happening on the heels of Diva Marketing's Biz Blog Profile Series: Flooring The Consumer, Wear-Dated - include becoming:
+ A Successful and Outstanding Blog SOB, and
+ A QaQnA Mug Club Winner
Thank you, Liz Strauss and Tom Vander Well. Flooring The Consumer is in unbelievably company! I proudly display your badges!
This blog journey has been filled with the unexpected. Yet, I think it has only just begun!
I expected it to be anonymous, rather than personal as Toby Bloomberg, Liz Strauss, Harry Joiner, Matt Dickman, Mark Goren, Lori di Magno, Marijean Jaggers, Kristin Gumper, Mary Hunt and Yvonne DiVita demonstrated.
I expected it to be distant. But, CK, Valeria, David Reich, Steve Woodruff, Fard Johnmar, David Polinchock, and Lewis Green proved otherwise, making it quite local.
I certainly didn't expect it to be so global as Reshma Anand, Laurence Helene Borel, Katie Chatfield, Daria Rasmussen and others have made it.
I never expected to find as much early encouragement as Mike Sansone [get better soon!], Maria Palma, and Drew McLellan shared with me.
I never expected the Bathrooom Blogfest '06 to be as much fun. Thanks, Stephanie Weaver and Susan Abbott. Anyone [especially women bloggers] interested in participating in the upcoming Bathroom Blogfest, please let Stephanie and Susan know. I guarantee that it will be a blast!
I hoped for inspiration, but found much more than I ever could have hoped for from Tammy Vitale, Elizabeth Perry, Robyn McMaster and others.
I only dreamed about roping in my associates, and yet Marianne Cone willingly contributed multiple articles and photos, as did several of our Wear-Dated Representatives.
And, then, there have been unusual blog experiments [e.g., the Z List and the 2000 Bloggers], as well as serious ones [Todd And's Power Marketing 150, Viral Garden's Top 25 Marketing Blogs, the Graduates E-Book and the soon to be released Age of Conversation project that Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan have masterminded].
I expected this to be a solo journey, and have instead discovered a vibrant community that stretches around the world like a silken spider's web.
I expected this to be somewhat of a chore. Instead it is a source of constant delight, adding dimension and additional perspective, for example, to MarketingProfs.com webinar sessions with David Armano and Greg Verdino, and many others.
And - although I hoped - I wasn't sure whether the flooring community would embrace Flooring The Consumer, and yet it has. In fact, in the same issue of FCW that 'Welcome to My Home' appears, Chris Ramey from the Florida Luxury Marketing Council identifies me in his article as a 'thought leader' alongside several others in the industry I respect greatly. Wow!
This has been an awesome first blog year. It sets the stage for the next one during which I promise a flooring related meme! Intensely jazzy flooring toe taps of delight underscore how happy I am to be involved in all of this.
Thank you one and all!
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35 comments:
Happy Blog Birthday! I am sure the second year will be even more fun!
Happy blog birthday C.B.
Congratulations! Hope to be reading your thoughts for many more blogging years to come. Keep on keeping on!
CB,
It's been great to get to know you (virtually) in the blogging community, and congrats on the one year mark! I'll hit that milestone next month, and my sentiments mirror yours exactly.
Happy Birthday. you should be proud of such a milestone and it is because you have provided valuable and thought provoking material and I have enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more in the future..
Thank you, Lolly, David, Mark, and Nesh! Steve, I look forward to your blog birthday!
C.B. - Happy blog birthday to you! Here's a virtual toast to MANY more. By the way I love your graphic!
Happy (Blog!) Day...so glad we met this year (that was a great day, too!).
Toby, the virtual clink is chiming in my ears! Thank you.
CK, I am, too, and would love to do it again very soon. Great bookclub discussion, BTW!
Happy blog birthday CB!
Thanks, Gavin!
Happy, happy blog birthday! What a great journey (so far) with more fun to come! Stay fabulous!
great job! it has been 3 months for me and so far I love blogging it let me express and creates controversies
Happy Blog Birthday, C.B. I am honored to be among your many readers and owe it all to Toby and David for helping me discover you. Keep up the great work!
Lewis, you are too wonderful! Thank you.
Ian, congratulations on your first quarter! It only gets better.
Right, Lori? There is absolutely more fun ahead.
C.B. I liked your blog from the first day I read it. I could not imagine that flooring could include so much art! You take flooring to new heights and so your became a regular for me to visit. You've become a friend and have reached lovely milestones in year one. I wish greater success in year two!
Happy Blogoversary!! WOOHOO!! [blowing my noisemaker in Iowa]
C.B. -- Happy Birthday indeed. How exciting. May you have many, many more.
Congratulations and thanks for continuing generosity.
It's your Blogday- and we get thanked! You are toooo kind C.B.
I look forward to what stories you will be able to tell at your next anniversary.
Congratulations and Happy Blog Birthday! Here's to many more.
CB its unbelievable that its only been a year ! Wish your blog a belated birthday :)
Happy Blogiversary C.B.! Looking forward to many, many more :)
Thank you, Robyn! I love how you've taken the brain to new levels.
Tom, right back at you!! And, I LOVE my mug.
Matt, Greg and Katie, many thanks!
Thanks, Reshma and Ryan. Funny how a year can be agonizingly slow and sooo fast.
C.B.
A blog year is a long time and care for your readers and work, thank you. We've met only once, yet it feels like we've been friends for a long time. I've had the chance to reflect on social media in this last couple of days and yes, it changes everything.
Like Robin McAllister I have been surprised and delighted to see all the connections in marketing between flooring and art....and love reading your column. Happy blogday! And many more! And thanks for the shout out. =]
A belated happy blogday! An incredible landmark to be celebrated and rewarded for all the hard work and consistency it takes to maintain such a worthwhile blog. Kudos!
Marijean, thanks very much!
Happy day, c.b. You deserve cake and cookies and a big hug! Cheers and fireworks for another good year. We'll be watching and reading.
Congrats, c.b. And many more! Here's to fireworks and cake. And a toast with some fine chardonnay.
Double thanks, Yvonne! Fireworks, cake and chardonnay are perfect together...
Happy Blog Birthday to You! Hope Flooring the Consumer has an even bigger and better year coming up!
Congratulations!
Chris Brown
Thank you very much, Chris! I really appreciate your thoughts.
Is there any cake left, C.B.? Happy blog birthday and here's to many more!
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