Several years ago I came across this page on About.com called “Top 10 Websites and Games for Brain Exercise”.  Naturally, I felt as if I should be included on this list, but alas I was not.  So I contacted the About.com guide who had written the page and asked him to include me, but he said he would not be updating the list.  I begged a little, but to not avail.  Over the next two years I frequently came across the page and each time was annoyed at the omission of my site.  Then, two weeks ago I decided to give it another go and wrote the following email:

I see you are posting a lot on brain fitness.  Please feel free to include a link to my site in any of those posts  I have written a number of articles on brain health, have a running series on brain fitness tips, offer a memory workout program, brain training exercises and in general, 100+ brain games.  Please take a look at my site and consider linking to it in one of your articles as it really is a good resource to provide for your readers.

Now, returning to the original reason I emailed you, way back when: your page called “Top 10 Websites and Games for Brain Exercise”.  I’d really like to get on this list.  I see that you updated it last January, so I know you are amennable to making changes.  Considering that my site is active, original, diverse and offfers a huge collection of brain games I would like to try again to convince you to include me in the list.  Assuming that you are not going to change the post to “Top 11 Websites”, that would mean the removal of one of the current entries.  In that light, consider the following:

The Brainwaves Center has but 4 static tests/exercises, hardly even games.

MyBrainTrainer allows you to play only one free exercise.

BrainBuilder is software that you need to purchase and have shipped to you.

Queendom.com is focused mostly on IQ & personality tests and has a limited number of actual brain games

Obviously I am biased, but I feel very strongly that my site deserves inclusion on this list and that it would be a more valuable resource to include than at least one of the above-mentioned items.  I work 70 hours a week trying to make it a great place to exercise the brain

Thank you for your consideration of this matter.  Sorry if I am a pest but this is very important to me and I feel that I have a valid case.

For several weeks I heard nothing and assumed I was being ignored (I am used to sending out emails and hearing nothing back).  But just this morning I got a response from him saying he was convinced and that he would update the page, which he has already done!  This made me very happy.  It’s a small victory but it makes me pleased and is a reminder to be persistent (while I typically get ignored, that is the third person who has come around on something like that and thanked me for my persistence).