Welcome to Tilla-Maya!
It is officially May, which means this semester is coming to an end. This week, I am going to take a moment to reflect on how this blog has affected my life.
First of all, I wanted to say that I’m proud of what I’ve done, but there’s always room for improvement. One of the things that could improve my blog would be if I were to include other people’s opinions as well as my own. It would be super insightful to hear more than one person’s thoughts and add them in.
I also probably could have promoted with shorter tweets. I always used the maximum amount of characters to give more insight about what my post was going to be about; I could have instead let the post speak for itself and kept the tweets simpler.
My best experience of this project was getting noticed by Tillamook! My entire blog was circled around their brand of ice cream. On my promotion tweet for my fourth flavor post, Waffle Cone Swirl, @TillamookDairy on Twitter replied with, “Love to hear it.” They also liked that tweet, as well as liking every single promotion tweet I’ve posted since that one! They also recently sent me a direct message offering me some free ice cream of the flavor of my choice, which is something I never thought would happen! It was so cool knowing that my tweets and blog had reached them.
This will definitely help me in the future. As an advertising major, I have to know how to market to people and make things sounds appealing enough so that it grabs their attention and/or convinces people to try for themselves. I’ve tried my hardest to do that for each post, and people have actually asked me about other flavors I liked, as well as telling me that they’ve tried the ice cream for themselves! I hope to carry this experience on with me as I get into the workplace and be able to effectively use the strategies I’ve learned to appeal to different audiences in the future.
My most popular week was the week of February 17th-23rd. I received 68 views and 22 visitors that week. I actually got more visitors the week after (31 visitors), but fewer views (41 views). My most popular post was my very first post, the introduction. It received 49 views total. It was probably the most popular because it was at the start of my blog and people were the most curious at the beginning. I was a bit surprised overall; I didn’t even think anybody would view my blog except for my grader, myself and occasionally my parents. Not only have I received views from the United States, but also from the United Kingdom, Canada, and The Philippines! This was really cool to look at! As far as social media stats, my Twitter page generated about 45 of all of my views total, which is pretty cool!
Well, this was truly a great experience, and I don’t know if I’m done with this just yet!
If you want to check out more Tillamook ice cream flavors, as well as other products by them, you can visit their website here!
Thank you so much for sticking with me through this! Stay home, stay safe and until next time…😉
Tilla-Maya 