So on April 17, 2013, I started tracking my blogging statistics.  I tell people that is when I really started blogging because up until that point, I really had no idea of the impact I was having and the value I was adding.  So what are my stats?

My blog has been viewed 15,149 times by 3,953 people.

The average visit duration is 2 minutes and 8 seconds.

65% of the people visit multiple pages each visit.

People from 80 countries speaking 52 different languages have visited the blog.

Over 1/3 of the visits come from people using a mobile device.

Most of the people who have found my blog from a search engine (1,082 people) used Google to find it.

Those stats, while not impressive to other bloggers, are absolutely fantastic for me!  During this time, my blog has went through several design and topic changes.  Each change brought more and more visitors with an audience that is more and more engaged.  What happened?  I started adding value to the community.  I found my voice.  I started listening to people who have been doing this for years and took what I could use and threw away the rest.

Since I have been honing my skills, I have decided that the blog will go through another change in the future.  No branding will change, only a design change and a content change.  Now that I will be launching Millennial Cop, this blog will go back to being just that; a blog.  It will no longer focus solely on just leadership material.  It will once again become a repository for all of my randomness.  I can’t wait to get on that.  In the meantime, make sure that you SUBSCRIBE to my email list and check out the YouTube Channel.  Oh yeah, subscribe to that too!

 

I have recently come to love watching TED Talks.  If you aren’t familiar with TED, it stands for Technology, Education, and Design.  You can find out more about it on the Wikipedia Page.  I recently came upon some TED Talks that I thought would be of great value to the Law Enforcement Community.

The first is by a lady named Leslie Morgan Steiner.  Her VIDEO talks about why domestic violence victims don’t leave.  We have all wondered why that is.  Well, here is the answer; first hand!  She even wrote a book about her experience called “Crazy Love“.

The second is by a lady named Pamela Meyer.  Her VIDEO is about how to spot a liar.  I really enjoyed this video as it helped me to better understand why physiological things happening behind a lie.  She wrote a book called “Liespotting“.

I have to admit that the third video has absolutely nothing to do with Law Enforcement.  But it is pretty cool and everyone needs to see TINY DANCING ROBOTS!

Have a look at the videos and feel free to check out the books.  I have included affiliate links for both books.  I would get a commission off of the sale if you bought a copy, but it doesn’t cost you any extra to use the link (hey, a man’s gotta make some money right?)  If you feel like this post has provided you some value, and you want the book, please use those links.  I would appreciate it.

As many of you know, I have a YouTube Channel that I post amazing leadership advice on.  You can access it by heading over to MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL. Until today, I enabled the “monetization” setting on the videos.  I thought that it would be a nice way of getting some passive income.  It basically works like this:

• People pay Google for advertising space
• Google puts an ad on my video
• I get a cut of what Google charges for the ad if you click the ad.

Turns out that was actually a horrible idea.  I owe you an apology if you watch those videos.  I made a terrible mistake putting those ads on there.  I am giving away my best leadership advice.  Why would I have free content and then put advertising on it?

I am not saying that I won’t consider doing it again in the future, but for right now it just doesn’t make sense for me to do it.  It feels very inauthentic.  I am trying to build relationships and trust.  Shoving advertising in your face when you are trying to watch a video doesn’t feel very trustworthy does it?

So guess what?  No more ads on my videos.  If YouTube decides to do it on their own, there really isn’t much I can do about it.  But know this.  I have disabled all of the ads that I can. So go watch the videos.  Subscribe to the Channel if you would please.  I would love to see you over there!