Before I started working on the Internet, the main purpose of surfing the Internet at home was playing games. After working on the Internet, online promotion has become my biggest hobby. Sometimes I even feel that I am as obsessed with online promotion as I used to play online games. But playing online games costs money, and doing online promotion can make money.
Because of this mentality, doing online promotion work for a long time has been like playing a game to me. Work is play, play is work. For a long time, I took it as my motto, as if this sentence was also my own original creation. But it is not easy to maintain such a mentality. I have been working on the Internet for almost 4 years, and it may only last 2 years to maintain this state of mind. It has been almost 2 years since I worked for the sake of work.
When I was doing on-campus website promotion in the past, I would remember to upvote forum posts for external promotion before going to bed every day. Later, when I was doing peanut business promotion, I would still pay attention to the traffic of the product at 12 o'clock in the morning. If I suddenly had any good ideas and suggestions, I would immediately send an email to the leader. Most of the time, I don’t feel that I am working for the company, but for myself. I like to see the value behind a piece of work. Many people, especially newcomers who have just started working, often only see superficial things, and superficial things never give them enough reasons to do their best to do a good job.
I remember one time I went to an Internet FB party with a girl who was an SNS operator (Shangbo.com). I took her to exchange a lot of business cards at the event. I suggested to her that she should send an email to these people when she gets back, introduce herself and say hello in the email content, and take the opportunity to find a topic to attract these target user groups who work in IT to visit her company's SNS website. After she finished, I asked her if she thought it was meaningful. She probably thought there wouldn't be many people signing up, so she didn't think it was meaningful. I later told her: For you, the ultimate meaning is not how many people are attracted to the company website. It’s about what you gain from doing it. This is what others have said, what is pursued is not the result, but the process. If you don’t do it, you won’t know how effective it will be in the end.
For her, what really has meaning, or value, should be the following points.
1: Collected a group of information about Internet practitioners, which can be used for future reference.
2: By sending such emails in bulk, we will know whether this kind of promotion method is effective. A very good promotion experience.
3: When the leader knows about it, he will think that she is a new person who can use her brain and take the initiative to do things.
4: Bring in some new users to the company website (this means the least to her)
This is how I look at every online promotion job I do. Every job you do is not aimed at completing work tasks. Instead, I think about what I can learn after doing this, and what resources and connections I can accumulate. I often complete promotion tasks in advance, and I will continue to promote them. Sometimes what I want to know more is how far I can achieve it, rather than just completing the task indicators. Because of this mentality, I can always do things with the mentality of "work is playing, playing is work", which also allows me to make greater progress.
Now I have started a job that I am interested in, finds challenging, and allows me to learn and accumulate experience and connections. I hope I can find the best working condition I have ever had. Finally, I wish everyone can have a good attitude towards their work.