Oh my goodness, what a night!
I guess some of my “retroactive” posts will have to wait, because I had something HUGE happen to me tonight to talk about.
Earlier today, I came across an article that piqued my interest, so I reached out to the author to let her know about BarCards. She was incredibly friendly and encouraging (I have to admit that she made my day when she wrote back to me; it is not often that I can interact with a celebrity!) and told me that I should apply on the Mashable blog for the “Spark of Genius” series. After looking at the requirements, I thought I was a long shot, but I thought, “What the heck!”
So that brings us to roughly 3 hours ago when I was working on creating the Piñojo Productions blog. I was just going to to work on the initial story, set up my sidebar, and then maybe do one or two entries from things that I learned from a while back. Well, one of the things that I wanted to put in my side bar were all the reviews that BarCards has received so far. I went to Google and typed in “barcards iPhone” and at the top of the list was a link to a review on Mashable! I was floored!
I then did a search on Twitter for BarCards and was floored to see all the results (at the time of this post, the Mashable site was showing 856 tweets)! I know that many of them are bots that just scrape the Mashable website, but a good many of them are from real people. I also checked Pete Cashmore’s Twitter Handle and found that he had sent out a tweet on BarCards that was broadcast to his 2,019,353 followers!
I was on an extreme high and couldn’t come down; I was calling/texting everyone I could think of even in spite of it being around 11:00PM CST. I wasn’t too coherent and was bumbling all around but I was just so excited.
One thing I noticed was that the BarCards Twitter Handle was not mentioned in any of the tweets that were being broadcast out. After coming down from my rush, I started sending Tweets to anyone who had something favorable to say in addition to the standard message being retweeted. This basically kept me up for the next 2 hours or so which leads me to now.
I am beat, but really, really excited about what might happen to my download total tomorrow. This came at such a great time because Thursday is historically the day that Apple will change out what is featured in their iTunes App Store. I am hoping that I can get a good enough push to possibly keep me listed there!
The moral of the story, you got to through out a lot of lines but eventually you’ll get a bite if you have the right bait. Just stay persistent and reach out to real life people in a personable way.
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