The basic mistake you make is that as both the audience and the test subject you lose perspective, it's one thing to stand on the sidelines and see you do great stuff with text in order to really achieve something.
If you had a specific goal other than 'increasing the name recognition of Max Klein' then that would be cool with me.
Say you invent a gadget and you apply this technique and you sell a million of them and document it. That's the exact same thing but with one major difference, there is a concrete goal.
The audience itself is not the goal, and neither is simply increasing your name visibility. It's like a branded box with nothing in it. Other than your 'cleverness'.
By closing the loop and making the whole thing about how to attract visitors you are like a spammer that mails you a guide on how to get traffic, the guide tells you to spam people and send them guides.
There is no real goal here.
That's a harsh analogy, but that is the way it appears to me.
So, what do you really intend to do with the audience that you have got ?
Are you going to get to some kind of conversion goal or is it just a numbers game ?
Actually, I do have a plan. I was intending to phase it in, but it makes no difference if I say it now:
Step 1: Write interesting articles where I deconstruct the art of gaining name recognition, and in the process gain a lot of name recognition. At some point, I will have a following of about 1000
Step 2: I am going to challenge one of the established software players that I am going to make software that is better and more loved than theirs
Step 3: I will program and release something very promising. My followers will spread the news. It will grow
That's my overall plan. There is software I am developing where I am going to stake my reputation on. But what's a reputation to stake if you have none, ey?
That makes more sense. But you have to keep in mind that the method chosen puts the horse behind the cart.
That method only makes sense if the people whose name recognition you are now coveting will be in some way very closely related (or will even be) the consumers of your eventual product.
Only then it makes sense, or you'll have to go through the whole rigmarole again by the time you are ready to approach your customers, which will have cost you time and effort.
So I would bet that that is the case because otherwise it would not make much sense to cultivate this particular audience.
Again, I'm very impressed with your ability to do this, if you can transport it easily to fields outside of the one you are currently active in (software development) then there probably is a metric ton of money to be made exploiting that talent.
Another problem I foresee with your approach is the timing. If you are right now busy creating a target audience for a product that doesn't exist then you are effectively opening a window of opportunity without the ability to fill it.
If you had used your talent to attract 60,000 prospects to your product you'd be laughing all the way to the bank now, whereas right now all you have is an impulse whose momentum will be long gone by the time you're ready to go to market.
It seems to me that your timing is off, but time will tell.
Now that's interesting, a social engineer + software developer = new kind of entrepreneur? The plan: outsmart people in the social space (creating a momentum) and then start selling them software (creating long term effect).
The problem here is how actually you create good software
If you had a specific goal other than 'increasing the name recognition of Max Klein' then that would be cool with me.
Say you invent a gadget and you apply this technique and you sell a million of them and document it. That's the exact same thing but with one major difference, there is a concrete goal.
The audience itself is not the goal, and neither is simply increasing your name visibility. It's like a branded box with nothing in it. Other than your 'cleverness'.
By closing the loop and making the whole thing about how to attract visitors you are like a spammer that mails you a guide on how to get traffic, the guide tells you to spam people and send them guides.
There is no real goal here.
That's a harsh analogy, but that is the way it appears to me.
So, what do you really intend to do with the audience that you have got ?
Are you going to get to some kind of conversion goal or is it just a numbers game ?