Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on this topic @ph1102, and you also got a lot of really great feedback, so I will just say, build your list, track your results, and use the best tools for traffic that your tracking is telling you, and good luck with the badges, it's awesome.
This post is AWESOME!
It has therefore got a manual 100% upvote from @thisisawesome, for the Awesome Daily Upvotes in category CTPtalk, I give out 1 such vote in that category per day, plus 3 more in other categories, and your post will also be featured in todays Awesome Daily report for more visibility.
The goal of this project is to "highlight Awesome Content, and growing the Steem ecosystem by rewarding it".
Thanks, Erik... And comments on the post were awesome. A lot of valuable content for everyone.
Thanks @ph1102, and they where awesome comments, keep up your great work.