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What’s Better Than Being on the Front Page of Digg?

Last week, we were talk­ing about one of the rea­sons busi­ness blog­ging growth is slow­ing.

Part of the rea­son growth is slow­ing is that the instant fame model of blog­ging is prov­ing to be hol­low. You can’t be an instant suc­cess blog­ger. It just doesn’t happen.

It may look like this blog­ger was an overnight suc­cess or that com­pany got instant social media atten­tion. But there’s always a huge amount of work cou­pled with a huge amount of work behind it.

And yet. There is a way that busi­ness blog­ging can greatly enhance your vis­i­bil­ity day after day, if you’re will­ing to forgo the Hyper-Viral model.

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Are Topical Social Networks the Next Big Thing?

networking-headsIf the growth of busi­ness blog­ging is slow­ing, and Twit­ter becomes old news, what will be be talk­ing about next in social media?

We’re already audio blog­ging a bit, and video is get­ting to be a more fea­si­ble option. I don’t know that it will get to the point where just to be seen you need to have video, not any time soon.

Not the way it is with blogging.

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Has the Hype of the Social Media Mega-Viral Campaign Slayed the Business Blog?

There used to be four dis­tinct rea­sons that peo­ple would ask me to help them with blogging.

1– A per­son had an idea or a story and wanted to be heard. It isn’t always about money or busi­ness — see the polit­i­cal blog­ger, and the per­sonal blog.

2– A per­son wanted to make extra money blog­ging. This doesn’t hap­pen as much, at least not on a full-time income level. But to some, even $5 — 20 a day is a huge help.

3– A per­son, (espe­cially an entre­pre­neur) or a larger com­pany wanted more vis­i­bil­ity. If you want to be seen, and to have mul­ti­ple oppor­tu­ni­ties to be seen again, you blog, and you keep blogging.

4– Bet­ter search engine results or traf­fic. I would get a let­ter from some­one who had X amount of traf­fic that would bring them Y con­ver­sions. And all they wanted was more of each.

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The Beast is Hungry and Bored: What Happens After Business Blogging?

Okay, we were talk­ing about what is going to suc­ceed social media and blog­ging. And it may be some­thing that already exists.

Let’s look into what’s poten­tially hap­pen­ing for Blogs first.

Jigga Wha?

Jigga Wha?

1– Wide­spread Busi­ness Adop­tion of Lifestreaming?

Pos­si­bly. To us it may seem like every­one already “gets” blog­ging, but I meet peo­ple every day who either ask me “What is a blog?” or “Why should busi­nesses blog?”

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