Site Stuff: Growing our community from ... the very first subscriber? taken in Downtown (Site Stuff)

RANDOM PENGUINS FAN AT NATIONWIDE ARENA

Subscriber meetup Thursday night in Columbus, Ohio.

One at a time.

It's our company's principal goal for 2023, as I've typed here a few times, to find 1,000 totally new subscribers to our site. And whether or not that sounds like a lot to anyone, I can assure that it involves a lot of work.

Here's something I found absolutely amazing:

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FACEBOOK

Oh, for real. That came my way via Facebook a couple days ago from Lisa Bohm-Levitsky, and it's exactly what any Original Lunatic could easily figure out that it is: She was our very first subscriber. And though I had only the faintest memory of this -- the brain was kinda mush at the time -- that's a copy of my emailed response to her, and the date/time all match. (And yeah, all we had was a brand new PayPal account with which to accept payments back then!)

First order of business: We'll be committing one of those Building Bricks at our Downtown HQ/shop to Lisa. Or, to be accurate, we'll be committing the one Brick that'd been donated in 2022 by one especially thoughtful subscriber who asked only that we keep it for a special occasion that might arise. I'd think this qualifies.

Second order: Keep the priority where it's always belonged.

I could never know what percentage of our readers, viewers or listeners are here because of a personal, one-on-one anyone here at DK Pittsburgh Sports has made, but my guess is it would be strikingly high. We answer every correspondence in every form, whether via email, social media or a wave from the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue. We invite people to join our community, not just for the original content but also for the Asylum forum that connects fans of the Steelers, Penguins and Pirates to their favorite teams from all over the world. And the thinking from there, logically, goes that they'll share with a family member or friend or co-worker, and so on and so on and so on. Or better yet, they'll buy a gift subscription for that same purpose.

If you're interested in the latter, a gift subscription can be bought individually right here. If you're interested in gift subscriptions in bulk -- maybe to help those who tell us all too frequently they can't afford one -- then email me directly: DK@DKPittsburghSports.com!

If you follow any of us on social media, including the staff, you'll see a push like never before for new subscribers. It's no accident. We feel like, approaching our ninth anniversary and soon the 10th, we want to make sure we're keeping a new wave of readers coming through even while respecting those who've been with us ... well, from the actual, literal very start!

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