My shameless effort at self-promotion has yielded a twenty-five percent increase in my “followers.” This is good and bad. A twenty five percent increase is respectable for a twenty-four hour period.  In the last day, I increased my followers from fifteen to twenty. Twenty is a good number. A group of twenty is often referred to as a score, so you could say I scored.

But analyzed a different way, it is not so impressive. I know that 116 people have viewed my Blog since I posted Follow the Leader yesterday. Those 116 people loaded 241 pages, which is neither here nor there, but provides good context and 241 sounds good. Now just to complicate things a bit further, since I started this Blog, it has been visited a total of 4,347 times. Also an impressive number considering I started this little hobby just over six weeks ago. But 4,347 in relation to 20 followers somehow does not seem good. It’s less than .5 percent. That’s point five percent, also known as less than one percent.

Analyzed yet another way, of  the 116 people who viewed my blog in the last day only five joined up as followers. Which is less than 5 percent, which is better than .5 percent. But see how fast twenty five percent can turn into five percent? I was up twenty five percent, and now I’m down twenty percent, just like that.

That’s what some people would call small potatoes. But me? I’m just grateful that five more people are willing to be publicly identified about the fact that they read my Blog. The rest of the people reading may not want to be so open about it, which I can totally understand.

I also appreciate the effort that went into clicking the “Follow” button. My sister, Puchi had a hard time with it.

“I have pressed that button on the top right a few times in order to follow you,” she commented. “However, nothing happens and I felt that I had been rejected as a follower…so now I am looking for having another purpose in your life since I failed as a follower.” I know she was being all ultra-sensitive because I wrote about how sometimes I reject the comments she leaves on my Blog. (See Puchi Calling, posted February 20, 2010).

I told Puchi that I refused to accept that she had failed as a follower. “Consider doing the POP or PUP Analysis,” I suggested. “Or maybe you need a google account?”  It’s really not that complicated I told her. “After all, there are 19 others who have figured it out.”

Puchi is no quitter, so she kept at it. She wrote later today, “Oops, it seems that when I decided to follow you I chose to do it anonymously…that’s why it never showed up. Well here I am, all accounted for.” Now that is what I call sisterhood.

Now if  I could just get Jenny to start following me.