{"id":1595,"date":"2011-11-16T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T16:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.redclayinteractive.com\/?p=1595"},"modified":"2015-07-20T14:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T14:57:33","slug":"with-apologies-to-count-chocula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/with-apologies-to-count-chocula\/","title":{"rendered":"With Apologies to Count Chocula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a kid, my parents bought me the World Book Encyclopedia Childcraft set.\u00a0 If you grew up anywhere in the 70s, 80s or early 90s you could probably find some of these in your pediatrician&#8217;s waiting room.\u00a0 Perhaps you remember how awesome they were.\u00a0 One book in particular, Mathemagic, offered a mathematical proof using multiplication to show why there is no such thing as vampires.\u00a0 Basically, the author postulated the theory that starting with one vampire biting one person per week, and in turn that person becoming a vampire and so on, the entire world&#8217;s population would be vampires within 32 weeks.\u00a0 While this early childhood lesson in exponential distribution disproving the existence of vampires was certainly reassuring to my five year old mind, the writers must&#8217;ve felt like they didn&#8217;t want the kids to sleep too soundly, because they illustrated the story with pictures like this:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1596\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1596\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1596\" title=\"childcraftvampires\" src=\"http:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/childcraftvampires.jpg\" alt=\"W... T... F...?\" width=\"401\" height=\"229\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1596\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Holy crap.\u00a0 In a kid&#8217;s book? Seriously?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now I&#8217;m about twenty five years older and finally getting over seeing those pictures. While the night terrors have worn off somewhat, the application is still as sound now as it was then.\u00a0\u00a0 Where <a href=\"http:\/\/redclayinteractive.com\/social-media-marketers.php\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a> is concerned it is definitely applicable.\u00a0 The major search engines have figured out that the greater the number of people liking, sharing or retweeting your content, the more relevant that content likely is.\u00a0 In a recent post I talked a little bit about getting friends and family in on liking, sharing and retweeting your content.\u00a0 (I know, it seems sort of cheap.\u00a0 But if you can&#8217;t depend on those folks to help you grow your presence online, who can you depend on?)\u00a0 Now, if you can get those folks to share with all their friends and followers, and one or two of those in turn share\u00a0 your content with everyone of their contacts, your content can be pretty widespread in a relatively short amount of time.\u00a0 Just think, if it only took the vampires in the Childcraft story 32 weeks to turn the entire world population of 6.5 billion people into blood sucking demon spawn,\u00a0 I&#8217;d figure reaching all of Twitter&#8217;s 11.5 million users to be entirely doable in a couple of months (give or take, of course).\u00a0 I know what you&#8217;re thinking, and yes, my math might be off a little bit.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not the point. 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