In the comments to this post, Blogson GEBIV of There's One, Only! said:

By the way, you might want to post your really funny stuff here first before posting it over at IMAO. Give readers an excuse to come here after filling up on Frank J.'s funny. Just a thought...

There are two reasons I'm giving Frank the funny first

1) My part of the deal on being an IMAO member is keeping the site's traffic up by providing it with original humor that readers can't get anywhere else - which is the whole attraction of IMAO. However, the blogosphere is pretty much on a 24 hour cycle. After 1 day, the stuff I post at IMAO loses 90% of its traffic-drawing power, so it doesn't matter if I cross post it here. That, and I already cleared that procedure with Frank.

And there is, apparently, a large swath of my readership that doesn't really enjoy or read IMAO, so - even cross-posted a day later - the pieces still have drawing power (or at least entertainment value) here at Bad Example.

Think of it as the difference between first-run theater-goers and people who wait for the DVD to come out.

2) A bit of bet-hedging. IMAO gets more than 10 times my readership, and if it takes off, I go with it. Especially with the podcast thing. Seriously, I'd put the IMAO podcast up against any sketch comedy album that's ever been released. Monty Python, Firesign Theater, Cheech & Chong... all of 'em. Scott does a FANTASTIC job as the production manager. This ain't a bunch of stoned teenagers sitting in a basement riffing into a condenser mike. This is funny stuff by talented writers with CD quality sound, including appropriate background music and sound effects.

If marketed correctly (and Frank and Scott are both more talented at shameless self-promotion than I am), this could well be my ticket to a future free from suits & ties.

I consider my IMAO projects and my Bad Example projects to be more symbiotic than mutually exclusive, but I'm also still in the process of discovering how best to make them work to support each other.

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