{"id":4483,"date":"2019-04-25T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2019-04-25T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:42:08","slug":"are-you-reading-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etereman.com\/remanu\/2019\/04\/25\/are-you-reading-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Reading This?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi! You are<\/em> reading this. How meta.
\nMy name is Andee, The Rhythm of Reman<\/a>, and I\u2019ve been authoring, editing, and publishing for REMAN U for two and a half years now. We (read: I) send out an article every week, mostly on Thursdays. Our authors are all our own \u2013 people I work with every day, and people I bug at what must seem to them a near-constant clip for their articles so that I can, in fact, get those articles out to YOU.
\nBut why? I know why REMAN U exists. Captain Reman has told me\u2026 and you<\/a>. ETE REMAN, the company that runs REMAN U, is a really special place that has attracted some great minds \u2013 it\u2019s a cool part of my job to share the business, customer service, sales, and attitude advice that many of us live by every day \u2013 so, we\u2019re not selling you anything (unless you want a transmission)!
\nBut are you there? Is our altruism truly that? Or just a platform for us to pontificate out to the great unknown? Or are we just writing to ourselves? Once upon a time in REMAN U land, long before my time, the articles got a lot of responses, engagement, even criticisms. But those times have come and gone. Every Thursday (mostly), I race the clock to harass a coworker for a completed article, get it up on the blog, format pictures and graphics, get it into email form, create more graphics, and hit send out to a solid and impressive list of subscribers\u2026 you\u2026 but do you get it? Do you read it? Does it mean anything?
\nDo you care? You might, but I don\u2019t know that. I can see the percent of opens, the percent of clicks. It isn\u2019t great. It isn\u2019t commensurate with the amount of effort my team puts in every week to get it out to you and 6000 of your fellow subscribers. But watching the clock on my time before I have to get REMAN U out again this week, I can\u2019t help but feel like I should give up. Would anyone notice?
\nAs with all thankless tasks, most of the time I\u2019m happy to comply and send out our great content, but every once in a while, like now, I feel frustrated and like this is a waste of my time. Maybe this is a personal failing. A defeat. It\u2019s definitely a cry for help.
\nThe \u201ccall to action\u201d is a hallmark of the blog movement of the 2000\u2019s, a time that maybe, somehow, has slipped away from us \u2013 it\u2019s going to be 2020 next year after all. I\u2019m going to try regardless:<\/p>\n