This is the 500th post of Redmarketer.  That’s not bad in my opinion.  It took a little under 20 months to get here and I’ve learned a lot about the web and marketing since then.  But there is still so much more to learn about.  I think about SEO and how to improve my ranking for different search terms and how to effectively connect with other marketers.  The great part about this is that I have a top level domain with longevity and a great base to learn from.  There are no plans to make money on it, it’s just fun to learn about.  The web is the way of the future and learning about it will be valuable. I hope to reach 5,000 posts; I have no plans to stop writing, ever.

It dawned on me today about how much repetition is in my writing.  It’s in everyone’s writing who does this much.  It doesn’t matter how good you are or what you write about, even if it’s something changing all the time.  I read music reviews on Pitchfork quite a bit, but even though they are new albums, you see recurring themes.  It’s especially prevalent on this site.  Themes are repeated and so are ideas.  And that’s OK.  I don’t have a problem with ideas and thoughts being repeated.  There is value in repeating them.  I have a problem with ideas being forgotten.

To round out my 500th post, I’ll finish with this thought that occurred to me in the morning:  nothing is really a failure until you give up.