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The Three Broads lunching & working

Celebrating Our Anniversary

Three Savvy Broads is celebrating its first anniversary --- one full year of sharing thoughts and reflections with readers.

We decided a year ago to start the blog and see what would happen, and we have not been disappointed. It has been encouraging with more than 1,000 likes on our Facebook page, therapeutic as an outlet for discussing observations collected during individual 60 decades of life, and sometimes a coming to grips with life’s many lessons. It has been inspiring as readers give us encouragement and validation about what we share.

What we really look like (in our imaginations)

The three of us rotate the writing responsibilities, taking turns each third week and publishing a new blog each Monday. We promote the blog on our Facebook page, Three Savvy Broads, to let readers know topics and when a new column is available. We often meet to discuss topics and the development of ideas, any excuse to go to lunch. I don’t think any of us thought very far ahead on how long we would be writing this blog, but are pleased we have reached the one-year mark. 

We are starting the second year with this blog. All three of us are contributing as we did on the first one --- Aug. 4, 2014. We hope you will continue to follow us on this journey, looking at what we have done and continuing to evaluate what we are observing as we progress into our retirement years, going forward with even more ideas and thoughts.

Please feel free to share our blog with family and friends. We welcome all comments and suggestions. To view the new blog each Monday, visit threesavvybroads.blogspot.com. Sign up on that site with your email to receive the blog directly in your inbox each week. Like us on Facebook page, Three Savvy Broads. Thank you!!

Savvy Frances

Oh, the subjects we’ve covered . . .

Has it been but a year?

If you say so, my dear.

Yes, we deserve much applause

For all the topics we’ve covered on Three Savvy Broads! 

Go gray or no, the Glenne moving show,

Savvy shopping spree and grammar to bring you to your knees!

Quizzes literary, and Blossom queens contrary,

Baby boomers booming and walking paths caroming,

Reunions, earworms, 1860s dressing—every topic a blessing?

Patsy, Willa and Willy, their stories a treat.

Nasty geese, Max and Tootsie, we covered the beasts! 

Staging to sell, Hugging those trees, every topic sure to please!

Minding manners, downsizing, traveling and walking—

All these things kept us talking.

These broads still have plenty to say 

So be sure you are signed on to the blog today!

Trish      

 

ThreeSavvyBroads by the Numbers

So what have we learned this first year about doing a blog? 

• That we are savvy enough to know when to ask for help 
• That one needs to be assertive and ask friends to share the blog with their friends who will ask friends to share with their friends
• That Savvy Trish is really good on the computer – she has had some great layout ideas
• That Savvy Frances can make sneakers interesting (okay, she is a journalist, but there are writers and then there are writers)
• That spending a little money to boost your blog on Facebook is worth the money.

Here are some numbers for you and for us to ponder about our first year of our joint blog.

• On BlogSpot itself, we have 1088 “subscribers”

• We are now listed on the BigListofWebsites (the blogs on lefthandedness, walking trails, the local museum, and earworms were cited)

• Facebook--for the month from mid-June to mid-July--we had 7809 likes which averages 1952 readers/week (Blogelina says a good blog gets 1500+/week)

• 23 comments this month; a “good” average is 10/week

• Readership increase this year has averaged about 2%/week

• “Boosting” the blog on Facebook at .011/person has more than doubled the readership 

• Nearly 70% of our readers are women

• Our Facebook relevance score is 9/10 which means we are reaching the audience we want

• Our feedback score is “medium” – 6-7 (see above re: comments)

We still have some improvements to make – more comments, more readers, hot topics to find! 

 It is fascinating to look at our readers’ data – our fans come from many states. We live in Virginia so it is not surprising that more than 250 of our subscribers are Virginians. We have 10 from Florida, 8 each from D.C. and Chicago, and 7 from NYC and PA. WV did not show up! This is a surprise unless Facebook only logs in local info and large population areas? Hmmm? We have one each from Haiti, Puerto Rico, Germany and Egypt AND 27 from the United Kingdom. 

Keeping track of these demographics may become a new hobby. Wondering if there is already some algorithm for doing this?

Anyway, happy first anniversary to us! 

And a BIG THANK YOU to our SAVVY READERS from the SAVVYBROADS! 

Glenne