Posted: 2/20/2013 2:06:30 PM EDT
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Hi, Guys:
I'm asking this here because I consider this place to be my "virtual home" on the internet: I started this prepper blog (below) as a way to share some of my experiences, trials and tribulations on the road to "prepper-dom." But what I hadn't realized is that there are already hundreds (thousands?) of survival-related blogs. So, my question to you is: What elements of a prepper blog would make you want to read it, again and again? I figure the average Joe only has time to follow two or maybe three blogs a week. So, what makes you follow the prepper blogs you currently follow? What angle or slant would you like to see? I have some ideas already, based on my life as an expat prepper in Costa Rica, Panama and Bogota. And was also thinking to focus on survival/prepper-related product reviews. But I'd like some other ideas since people like YOU will be the people I'm writing for. What do YOU think would make for an excellent survival-related blog? |
| most of them that ive read (or should i say "skimmed over and then moved on and not subscribed to") don't really apply to me. Stuff like building a bunker, what crops to plant on my farm, etc. Im living in an apartment, just trying to put together a few things in my closet each time i make a trip grocery shopping. Remember that not everyone is an expert prepper. |
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For me, it's relevant content on a daily basis. I look forward to knowing that when I log in, there is going to be something waiting. I get disappointed when there is nothing new at my favorite sites. It keeps a blog fresh in the reader's mind as well, visiting it daily. Good luck@ |
| Like Jimmy said, everyone's interests/concerns will vary widely - I'm am older guy living on the outer edge of a big city, the family's Montana ranch is 450 miles away, a new baby just arrived, I like messing around with mil surplus equipment and vehicles, trying to get more ham radio figured out. The stuff I'd like to read is going to be a lot different than a young guy, fresh out of college living in a postage stamp apartment, no money, and no good place to head to if it really drops in the pot. Best bet is to vary it a lot - but you're kinda late to the party, the market is pretty full. I've though a good survivalist cartoon would find a ready audience (Sluggy Freelance meets Burt Gummer) - how good an artist are you? |
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For me, it's relevant content on a daily basis. I look forward to knowing that when I log in, there is going to be something waiting. I get disappointed when there is nothing new at my favorite sites. It keeps a blog fresh in the reader's mind as well, visiting it daily. Good luck@ That right there. Why I normally stick to forums of late. |
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Quoted: Hi, Guys: I'm asking this here because I consider this place to be my "virtual home" on the internet: I started this prepper blog (below) as a way to share some of my experiences, trials and tribulations on the road to "prepper-dom." But what I hadn't realized is that there are already hundreds (thousands?) of survival-related blogs. So, my question to you is: What elements of a prepper blog would make you want to read it, again and again? I figure the average Joe only has time to follow two or maybe three blogs a week. So, what makes you follow the prepper blogs you currently follow? What angle or slant would you like to see? I have some ideas already, based on my life as an expat prepper in Costa Rica, Panama and Bogota. And was also thinking to focus on survival/prepper-related product reviews. But I'd like some other ideas since people like YOU will be the people I'm writing for. What do YOU think would make for an excellent survival-related blog? 6 years ago there wasnt.....go back 4 more years and you could count them on your hands  honestly,pick what will separate you from the others,,and keep info coming. i slack at this,so my blogs i started never went far,,my youtube channel is a different beast,,i havent put out a vid in near 9+ months..yet i gather 30k+ views every 30 days....go figure. use your out of country experiences. most prepper blogs web sites just barf up old info or put an un educated/un tested twist to things ie: i bought this gadget but havent used it past my bed room.Type of info.stay clear of that. Dont talk out your ass and be honest. In other words if you write about food storage dont go 10 pages into why you need food grade buckets but then preach about how hand warmers make the best O2 abosorbers. It makes the blogger/prepper look like a fucking douche nozzle. I'll be the hardest one to sell a blog to..i dislike all the "instant" just add water prepper experts out there..... id like to see more of the how i started and what i have learned aka heres my story of how i fucked up and how you can learn from it. NOT the typical : i was watching doomsday faggots when obama got elected and my wife lost her job so i finally woke up 5 years ago and now im writting a blog to make money....and now my "prepping" is so easy i havent made one mistake yet..." type of crap you read. again id rather see reality vs dreaming or half assed made up crap to fill a page. my blog entry on forums that started popping up all over few years back enjoy the giggle...and oh good luck..just keep it real.Reality, freaking blows the big one dont it. Recently i have immersed my self back into the realm of the Internet. By this i mean, that i signed up on a BUNCH of smaller "survival" forums across the web. What made me do this you may ask. Well i was bored one day pretty much and wanted to see how things go on in a smaller more "communal" setting. Plus i wanted to get out of the " big city" of large 100K plus member forums for that "small town" feel ! LOL. Man, what a mistake for the most part . Oh this is where i tell some of you that if you are on a small forum some of this may not sit well with you if your guilty of it! The crap you gotta deal with on these smaller forums is insane. It is like lord of flies on an internet level. Someone will post about how great it is to use old lead based paint cans they found in their granddads basement to store baby formula , and as soon as someone points out that it may not be a great idea, the poster will get pissed, tell his buddy who is the mod ,who then runs off to the site owner ! Then WHAM your driven from the tribe, chased down a washout while being yelled at, until some one picks up a rock and the rest of the pissed off pogues stone you and any other people they perceive as a threat to their ego to death. Meanwhile everyone sits around and just watches it happen like a bunch of "littleun's " afraid that they may be next. THAT is the reality of small forums. BUt not all of them. Granted i am on some that are VERY well maintained and the members are both productive,helpful and will honestly put for a conceded effort to help a person out both online and off line. The rest, well lets just say that they have a pig head covered in flies stuck on a pole near a cave that drives them to stupidity! Well the web is not reality. Not in my eyes. Sorry but some screen name typing about this and that is not real. That's just some guy typing away. Until i meet that person face to face i do nothing more than respect their views ,IF they are sane or I write them off as some fat loser hiding from his wife ,95% of the time it ends up being the latter. Hell write me off, ya know what they say about opinions! But i am not to keen on someone spewing out BS like store your rice in garbage bags for your LTS. So anyway, now we have these small forums. The good the bad and the posers. cue the music someone please. Because sometime in while on one of these forums your going to see a thread called "meet and greet" or "camp out" or gathering. Like a cheap house of horrors or magic show your about to blend fantasy and reality into a mushy sticky mass of what the hell did you just get yourself into .You do end up wishing you were really on that island running away from rocks and spears ,hoping you dont catch a rock in the back of the head like piggy and can hide out till helps arrives like jack ! I suggest if you have not gone to a meet or camp out on any forum. Go. You will be shocked. Amazed and even awed by what you may see. Now, that's not to say it will be bad. I have been to events that i had a BLAST at , met some awesome people and walked away learning more in 2-3 days than i ever had hanging out arguing with some just a has been on the web. Other times though , I've slept with one eye open, with my pistol in my hand waiting for daylight to creep over the tree's so i could get the hell outta there, to literally BUG OUT ! That has only happened ONCE so far out of several dozen meets/camp outs i have attended over the years. Maybe I was just not on the same level as these survivalist at that camp. After all their FAQ or about us page did say that they were serious survivalist! Maybe i was not serious enough? I tried my best, i slept on the ground under one of my tarps in the cold and rain, i wore my GHB all weekend, participated in all of the events. Even ones that the owner himself did not do. Like some survival death race 5000 where you had to do push ups and sit ups and walk farther than 10 ft. I dawned on me later as me and only 1 other person were attempting to make fire from a bow drill ,while 15 other well "rounded" folks milled about. I just was not as hardcore as these online survivalist. Later i walked around amazed , no..awe struck at tents that would make a GP large look small. Air beds that could hold the harem of a sultan and still have room to romp. Grills and gas cook stoves that would make Emril Lagasse jealous. Right then i realized that i was no where near the skill level of these people.....i my friends had fallen into the gold mine of online survivalist and i wasnt gonna let this networking chance pass me by. I was in heaven from that point on. I learned that there was running water only 20 yards from my bivy ( why did i even pack that hiker pro filter ), hell there was a HOT shower as well. I even learned that if i was to walk the 30 yards back to my truck..well maybe 50 yards as i was parked behind some Pt cruisers and mini vans . That i had to only drive 5 minutes down the road to a store and get fresh milk, more beer and late night munchies! I sat down under my tarp. Thinking to myself what have i been doing all these years. I could have left my GHB and BOB at home, slept a good nights sleep on a king sized airbed and enjoyed a cooler full of steaks and several cold one's by the camp fire. Reality hit me then, and boy did it hit me hard. Right then, slumped under my tarp, in the cold I knew the only way i would ever be considered a serious survivalist was to sell all my gear and purchase a RV! |