eHow Experience: Day 17 - Surprising Fulfillment

Initial results of the eHow friend request experiment (discussed in the Day 16 post) ....

The friend request experiment has been a huge success.

I had 152 eHow friends last night when I began adding people and this morning at 9:25 AM I already have 625 friends.

Even though I only made 25 cents since yesterday (now at $5.87) I'm very encouraged by the fact that I have a lot of comments on my articles and a lot of five star reviews. I think this sort of attention gives my eHow account credibility that will hopefully lead to more earnings.

I even have four website Followers now, which is something that I wasn't expecting at all.

As someone who scans lots of web pages it's extremely gratifying to see that some people found the information that I'm writing about so useful and interesting that they voluntarily chose to follow this website (eHow Experience).

I even received some very thoughtful messages from people who didn't elect to follow the website (maybe they didn't think of it or know how) and I was very grateful for those as well.

A number of these encouraging messages have become the unsolicited, real life, verbatim testimonials that you currently see in the left hand column.

Not surprisingly I've received a lot of eHow messages.

What is surprising though is that I'm finding corresponding with these friends/strangers fulfilling. Even though this was initially an effort to get more exposure I'm now feeling an unexpected sense of community while I enjoy and actually learn from these interactions. The eHow community really is a group of at least somewhat like minded people.