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TWO MILLION unique visits to this site. Yes, two million seperate visits, not page refreshes, not 'hits' no bullcrap stats but a real 2 million people have 'passed through the gates' so to speak as measured by Google Analytics.
Add in the 756,000 views of my Youtube and Yahoo video channels and another 350,000 from my other assorted websites and that is over 3 million visits to my sites.
Regardless of what anyone says I consider that a major coup in self promotion from a relatively unknown actor and it has been worth it and it is taking me places....
So 2 million visits to this site and NO traditional media have yet sent any appreciable volume of visitors (nor even a measurable increase in numbers). Wait until I hit some major newspapers and magazines, the numbers will skyrocket, or in April 2011 when "Game of Thrones" airs on HBO. So back to me gloating, or shall we say basking in the rays of my own glory.... (yes that was for a certain reader who writes silly poetry to me claiming that my ego is absolutely ginormous). Way back in 2006, in the first article on this site I stated that this site was for self promotion, for gaining leads on acting jobs and as a (relatively) stable monthly income from advertising to help support me between jobs. What do you think? 2 million direct visits - I think that would be well classed as a success in self promotion, another million viewers of my other sites and video channels on top. That is over 3 million people who have now at least heard the name Conan Stevens who would never otherwise have heard of me. That is called building brand recognition. Better yet once my story hits the mainstream traditional media outlets then this site will serve well as a net to capture readers who are more interested in the details of my life and how I made it from a nobody actor in Thailand to a major action movie star (I'm still working on that, but it is the plan). the site is up and does not require a whole lot of maintenance to continue running. The fact that interested people can come and learn, or just read more about how/why I achieved success will also build on the brand, there is several books worth of material here for free - disjointed though the presentation is. The second stated reason for the site was to help get jobs, I have covered this before and I have had several job offers come through from the Internet - the three most notable were an audition for the Antonio Banderas film "The Big Bang " which I did not work in, and the Indian film "Drona " in which I flew to Mumbia, India to work with Abishek Bachchan and most notably is the effect my internet marketing had on my ability to secure the role of Gregor Clegane in the HBO show "Game of Thrones" . On top of the actual work offers I would not have recieved otherwise this website also serves as a personal reference or an indicator of my personality to those Producers/Directors interested in employing me - my personality shows through in most articles on here and I believe that it presents me in somewhat of a good light. At least it shows I am thoughtful, well spoken (I'm not actually, but I write well), and diligent, among other positive traits that I cannot spot in my own writting - some even claim my posts are entertaining and at times humorous. Lastly the adavertising income and using the site as a platform to sell my ebooks has been a GREAT help in my acting career - to the point that if I did not have this income I would not have been able to follw my dreams... I would have run out of finances long ago. As it is I can survive on this income, though I get very, very tired of just surviving at times but at least I did not ever have to give up and return to a 'real job'. So all in all the website has been a huge success, I have marketed myself well (3 Million people!) and have generated a positive, passive income stream that will continue for years and years to come. As an early adopter of self promotion on the internet I am the first actor promoting himself and the 'market leader' in a new media, I have also innovated such things as the First Video Recipe / Cooking Site. In short my Internet promotions have been a huge success, 2 million direct visitors, a million other viewer, a suporting income along the way and the ability to attain and achieve acting roles that I would never have known about nor been in the running for without the site and my Internet promotions. Sometimes I do chose correctly in this adventure I call my life.
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