People-managing: not just about getting people to do stuff for you
Last week a colleague noted “When you start working with other people, you spend a lot more time thinking about their paychecks than your own.”
AMEN TO THIS. Things were tight over at the Empire this month, and at a certain point I made the decision to pay my staff instead of myself this pay period. Oddly, it was WAY easier to do that than to even consider delaying everyone else’s checks.
Small, focused, and yes, exclusionary community sites flourish
Recently, I ran some numbers and realized that traffic on the Offbeat Bride Tribe (the private community component of Offbeat Bride) was down… like, significantly down. Down by half from where it was at this time last year.
As a publisher, of course my first reflex was OMG TRAFFIC DOWN = BAD BAD BAD! But as a community manager, I’m keenly aware that the Tribe is functioning and behaving better than it ever has…
Rita, this is mom: Facebook comments are the worst
We all know I hate Facebook comments. Here’s just one example of why…
The Offbeat market, summed up
This web comic by Alexandra Dal (ᔥKate Or Die) pretty much summarizes a large chunk of the Offbeat Empire’s readership — I love my special snowflakes, because I totally am one. As I wrote last year in my post, Are Offbeat weddings trendy?…