Posts Tagged ‘business blogging’
The Conundrum of Consistency
Not that this blog has some kind of huge audience, but the guilt of not updating is exactly the same.
And I’m writing about it because I know you’re having the same types of issues. I want to let you know that I’m not immune, that you have options, and that it doesn’t somehow make you less of a blogger to publish less frequently.
Because here’s the conundrum: you do all the stuff you’re supposed to do with blogging, and the result is that you help more people, or find more clients, or make more sales, or get more speaking engagements, or more in-store foot traffic, or all of the above, which now makes you too busy to blog.
Only, you better either keep blogging, or have some clients that pay every month, or else how are you going to keep yourself helping, finding, selling, speaking, meeting and greeting?
If you’re not consistent, the gravy train eventually stops — unless you’ve been smart enough to get stuff from several sources.
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Have You Been to Blog Island?
I was living on blog island.
And it sucked ASS.
What’s blog island?
What’s more important than what it is, is how you get there.
To get to blog island, the first thing you have to do is start blogging.
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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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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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