365 Days Of Marketing And Me: Day Forty-Four - 2/13/2021
/One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…
Welcome to day number forty-four of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… where I woke up this morning to yet another annoying email from customer support… this is regarding a new issue… and not the problem that plagued my site at the start of this challenge… but I’m having the same problem with the reps seeming to look for keywords instead of reading the entire problem…
I pointed out the other day… I'm trying a 7-day free trial of SEMrush… to hunt down issues that may be bringing down my SEO score… after running the first site-wide crawl… I found that all of the links to my site ThatOneStoner.com were throwing 406 error codes… which apparently has something to do with the user turning down the host’s handshake… or vise-versa… I don’t know that’s why I turned to support…
Keeping in mind that I clearly stated that I own both sites… and that they are on two different host servers… and that I just wanted to clear up this error… well the first person must have seen the words SEMrush and quickly responded that they don’t support them as a service because they use a lot of resources when they do a crawl…
I was fine with this first bit of information… but then after I reiterated that I’m not trying to run SEMrush on the That One Stoner site… and that I just found the 406 error using SEMrush as a tool on The Wicker Breaker… only to have it reiterated to me that they don’t support their service… it drove me nuts so I sent one more email to clarify… that I’m not trying to run anything on their servers… and that I just want to fix the 406 error that’s affecting my SEO score…
I’ve since found the solution on my own… I wrote a funky code in my .htaccess file… which created the mess… which I completely accept… I just wish someone from support would have found the words 406 error to focus on… since it had nothing to do with SEMrush… which is what they blamed in the email that frustrated me this morning…
I don’t know how to explain my situation without people from customer support confusing one a discovery step as the actual problem… I could just stop adding the steps that I took… and only focus on the problem… but that only leads to an email asking for the same steps that I would have left out… this is why I usually do ask for help in general… because the same thing happens in every aspect of my life…
Yes… I’m aware that I’m the common factor in this miscommunication equation… which is why I decided to isolate… even way before Covid-19… thankfully… I’m persistent enough in my effort to learn what I need… it would just be so much faster if support teams actually provided the right help… and would read the entire description instead of just looking for keywords…
Oh well… everything’s back to working fine so that I can relax a little while removing all of the broken links from the My Saturday Night Life challenge… that were caused by NBC taking all of their SNL links down… which is my marketing task until it’s done… which should be a while considering the fact that I’m two seasons down and have thirty-six more to go…
But… until then… that’s what I’ve got for today’s marketing effort to report on… now let’s see how I handled the assignment from yesterday…
According to the 365 Days Of Marketing book… yesterday was Satisfied Single Day… which I can’t help but laugh as I think of potential jokes about masturbation… but I’m not going to go that route for this one… because I am single… and that’s the only way that I’ve been satisfied as for as those types of needs go… only I’m trying to be more mature… now that I’m in my mid-40s…
Typically… I think of myself as single and unsatisfied… not just because I have to resort to the action mentioned above… but... I also have no real job… and am living back at home due to a few mental and physical health problems that came up a few years ago… but… when I really think about it… other than the low pay… and lack of any form of social acquaintances… I’m very close to living my dreams of having no overhead… and using my writing to make a life…
Granted… it’s no life that anyone would be jealous of… but… I earn enough to scrape by… I have a roof over my head… but most importantly… I have almost one-hundred percent control over what I do with my time… I get to sleep when I want… work when I want… and do that other thing… that I said I was going to avoid making jokes about… whenever I want… so… I may be a bit lonely at times… but when I’m not… I guess I am a Satisfied Single… and yesterday actually was a day for me to shine…
And there you have my effort to fulfill yesterday’s assignment… now let’s see what my task for today will be…
The 365 Days Of Marketing book says that today is Blame Someone Else Day… which is the first day in a while that I can fully get behind because I’m all about blaming others especially when it’s actually their fault… actually… that’s only partially true because… though I like to point fingers when I joke… when all if said and done… even if I’m not at fault… internally… I know that ultimately… if an issue gets stuck in my head… I’m the one who has to deal with the guilt or anger… even if no one is around…
Regardless of who the actual culprit is… I’m the one to credit or blame for my thoughts that might keep the issue alive… but with all of that said… stay tuned for tomorrow… because this assignment permits me to ease up on myself… and fully give in to laying the blame on someone else… with that said… I look forward to checking in tomorrow to let a few issues air out!!!
