When Ambi first approached me with the idea to enter the Ultimate Thailand Explorer contest, I thought about how much fun it would be to do. Not just "Sweet, a country I haven't been to!" (although that's a pretty big reason), but that we love updating our friends and neighbors a lot anyways online. And if you haven't noticed, of all the teams entered in the competition, we've been the most active by far.
But it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone really. Amber and I were made for this contest. We both read and write prodigiously. Amber is in her beginning stages of her dissertation. I'm writing reams of material for my M.S. (I'm writing two case studies as we speak) Yet we still have managed to make time for a blog writing nearly every day since we began our blog. That's 500+ words a day, and we're still truckin'.
Not to throw too many darts, but no one else is keeping that pace, no one. Not only is no other team blogging the same amount of material as us, but no one is really even blogging about why they're the perfect couple to be chosen for their select location in Thailand. Granted, I may be jinxing myself here, but even if they started today, they would never catch up.
It's not only that we're more active, but we're by far more proactive. Nobody told us to start cranking out blogs like candy spraying out of a piñata, we did that on our own. We realize that to win the UTE contest, we had to show people why we're the best. No one is going to just give us anything simply because we had our video shown at the kickoff press conference. We have to earn your votes.
We launched a Facebook Fan page early, loaded it with content, and started talking to our friends and family. We've now picked up fans by the bucketful and combine that with number of views we have, we're just getting started.
Our Tweets aren't just about pining for the beaches and cuisine Thailand, or gloating about all the places we've already visited. We're using Twitter to update why people should be following us and voting for us to go to Chiang Mai. Why wait until the semi-finals or even after we've been selected to go? Isn't this about promoting Thailand as the beautiful and wonderful country it is to visit right now?
You bet it is, and that's we're working hard now to get people excited about visiting Thailand. We'll be the most prolific bloggers and vloggers there are because we already are. Why hope that someone will do a good job when you know Amber and Theo WILL do a great job promoting Chiang Mai. We're a sure thing to be the most active, and if we haven't proven it yet, we will.
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