D-List Mom Bloggers, Unite!

I’m so D-list it took me a month to upload some new links to the site. And I’m so D-List the only post I can drum up in 6 weeks is a post about the new links.

So, welcome new members. You didn’t know what you were getting yourself into, did ya?

So it’s been a little while BlogHer, and the outpouring of comments and comradery between us lowly bloggers has been quite overwhelming. We have over 30 D – listers and I’m sure if I wasn’t so lazy as to let like 10 days go by without posting (that’s like 4 years in blog life), we may have 30 more.

But what do I do with y’all?

We created this silly blog as a funny antedote to all the BlogHer hype. But now that the hype and the conference is over, I’m wondering what we do with our little, but funny and festive community. I mean, it is only like 350 days until the next BlogHer.

Seriously, though do we keep this little thing going? I’m already thinking for next year’s BlogHer, we are totally going to have a potluck/ swap meet/ BYOB party. ‘Cause that sounds fun and I’ll be able to drink.

But for now, I’ll have to contemplate next steps. Because I know that there’s still life on the D-List to be had. Ideas are welcome, of course.

I posted on my blog, and promise to share all my D-List insights soon enough. Needless to say, Alma and I rocked the stickers.

I picked up those oh-so-special D-list stickers yesterday and I’m ready to pass them out! Just find Marketing Mommy Alma or I if you want to show the world what a blog slacker you are. Come one, come all! And, we’ll try to meet up again at lunch tomorrow at the conference. TTFN!

Ah yes, the moment we’ve all been waiting for… when all of us nervous-as-heck-we-won’t-have-anyone-to-sit-with-at-lunch-bloggers can get together in peon heaven.

Our D-List meetup at BlogHer. (Sorry to those who won’t be there, but we’ll be sure to bring you back at least one more reader.)

… drumroll…

Ok, so it’s not that exciting, but Alma and I thought since, well, we don’t have any sponsors, budget, suites, lounges or rooms to congregate in, the least we can do is pitch a sign at a table during breakfast and hope ya’ll show.

So we’ll be there with our D-List banner blazing, with *hopefully* some wearable for you to display proudly throughout the event. (I’m sure Tim Gunn will appreciate our outfit accessories.)

D-Listers unite in person!

p.s. oh look how smart those BlogHers are!  A newbie breakfast! See ya at lunchtime then…

Back when I started blogging, there weren’t any pitches or product offerings. I didn’t even know what an ad network was. Then boom! I overcame all my blog ethic worries and put ads on my site. I was hungry for blog revenue. I mean, if I could cover my hosting costs, domain name and shipping for product giveaways it’d all be worth it.

And then lo and behold.

I made $4 in six months.

The blog g-ds had answered.

I could finally buy that chai latte I had always wanted. Or 3 1/2 things at the dollar store (you have to remember the tax).  I could finally tell people I had made money off my blog.

And then it all really started.

People started pitching me! I got pitched for some really awesome things. Heard of Smelly Washer? It gets the smell out of your washing mashine. Or how about nutrition facts about bottled water? It’d make great content for my site.

I was on such a high from people actually wanting me I almost lost the true meaning of blogging altogether.

That next month I was on track to make $6. Cash is king, people.

1. You still get a tingle of excitement every time someone leaves a comment. Only to have that feeling evaporate disappear when you realize that comment is from Mom.

2. Instead of being invited to snazzy corporate blogger retreats, you’re entreated to sample fruit snacks, dial into a conference call with a sleep expert or preview a basic cable tv show online.

3. You are fairly confident no one at BlogHer is going to recognize you by your Twitter or Blogger profile pic.

4. You dread the “how much money do you make from your blog?” question from non-bloggers. I’m doing this for love, people! But if you want to buy something from Amazon anyway, maybe you could click over from my site…

5. You realize that controversy drives page views, but you’re too busy being a WOHM/SAHM/WAHM to stir to proverbial pot.

By Alma

While the A-listers are posting their stellar expert advice about how to survive BlogHer, I’m not stressed one bit. Not one.  My blog cards are printed, but I’m just hoping I remember them. (Forgetting them in 2007 was SUCH a rookie move.) But for the fact that my belly may be protruding into the seat in front of me, I should likely blend into my surroundings. That’s what’s great about being on the D-List.

But if this is your first BlogHer, or you’re rusty like me, I did come up with some of my own D-List survival tips:

1. Don’t stress about what to wear. It’s not like anyone will notice you that much anyway.
2. If you haven’t heard about any special cocktail parties or get-togethers, who cares. My fondest memory of BlogHer 2007 was when Robyn and Susan and I bailed on anything BlogHer and gorged ourselves on fried food at a local restaurant. Of course they’re not going this year, so I’ll likely be eating alone.
3. Bring your laptop if you like, but if you’re anything like me you likely won’t remember or know how to use a lick of what you learn. Let’s be honest, the only reason I’m actually goes to BlogHer is because I live local and it’s a good excuse to hire a sitter for the day.
4. Drink as much as you want. D-Listers don’t buy the whole BlogHer weekend passes so it’s not like you’ll burn out by Saturday.
5. Don’t dork out near the A-listers. This means no running up to tackle, no stalking them out in the lobby of the hotel hoping you see them pick up the pack n’ play you let them borrow (who me?), no obsessing over their latest blog posts.
6. Finally, try to relax and have fun. I mean, you have nothing to lose. The only place you and your blog can go is up.  

By Sara

If you’ve ever posted on twitter but no one’s responded, or your feed subscription levels dip below 100, then this is the place for you. Our trips to BlogHer are not sponsored, and our blog advertising revenue is light to say the least. We are the D-List of mommy bloggers and we like it that way. We’ll never be famous bloggers, but we don’t care. That way we won’t piss off our non-sponsors.

But, we do love to blog, even if our only readers our are mothers, mothers-in-law and the spying neighbor down the street. We’ll still go to BlogHer and gawk at the popular bloggers thinking one day they’ll actually come visit us. But if they don’t, it’s ok. We all have each other at the bottom.

That’s life on the D-List.

Will you be at BlogHer? Join our ranks and get your very own D-List button to wear at the event. Want to be on our Blogroll?

Email selfmademom(at)sbcglobal(dot)net.  Hey, it’s a D-List, anyone can make it.