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  • Have You Been to Blog Island?

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    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.

    And you do all the reg­u­lar stuff that they say blog­gers are sup­posed to do.

    You fig­ure out all the basic stuff like:

    … all that sort of begin­ner blog­ger stuff.

    And peo­ple start to notice you.

    Then you make a left turn at My Poo Don’t Stink Avenue, and sud­denly you’re on Blog Island.

    Maybe you stop respond­ing to com­ments on your blog. Not because they’re too many, but because you just can’t be bothered.

    Or per­haps now that you’re becom­ing a BFD, you don’t see the point of stoop­ing to com­ment on other people’s sites any­more. After all, you paid your dues right?

    And why have a blog roll? Link­ing out to other people’s sites is stu­pid right? Because then you can hold them cap­tive! Forever!

    Could be you get such good results from blog­ging that you stop and use the excuse that you have all this work to do.. (Yep. That one’s about me. And not in a pat-self-on-back way…)

    Blog Island is the place you end up in when you stop doing the things that made you a suc­cess­ful blog­ger in the first place.

    Like…

    Writ­ing about other peo­ple you admire . and link­ing to their posts.

    Or being pas­sion­ate about some­thing, then writ­ing about it with every drop of that passion.

    Or read­ing your favorite blogs, and link­ing to your favorite blog posts.

    Blog­ging is as much about con­sum­ing, com­ment­ing on, and link­ing to great con­tent as it is cre­at­ing it. All 4 activ­i­ties work sym­bi­ot­i­cally together to turn you into a great blog­ger whose posts are read by actual humans.

    Stay off blog island. No excuses.

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    Published on July 17, 2009 · Filed under: website promotion; Tagged as: , , , , , , ,
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10 Responses to “Have You Been to Blog Island?”

  1. Tinu said on July 17th, 2009 at 4:43 am

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  2. tinustuff said on July 17th, 2009 at 4:50 am

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  3. sharonvjackson said on July 17th, 2009 at 9:34 am

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  4. Alice said on July 17th, 2009 at 2:30 pm

    How can you not go to blog island though? You’re sup­posed to blog to increse busi­ness. So what hap­pens when you have so much busi­ness that you have less time. What do you do?

  5. snitgard said on July 21st, 2009 at 10:17 am

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  6. RennyBA's Terella said on July 25th, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    What a great intro­duc­tion to Blog’s Island! .… and you know what: I live there! :-)

    The great­est way to meet peo­ple, get­ting to know them, make friends and share about our daily life — from all over the world. This inter­ac­tion and knowl­edge helps to build down cul­tural and reli­gious bar­ri­ers and even more; the more you share, the more you get.
    It’s just like Net­work­ing; A Givers Gain.

    If you like to explore my spot of the island — about Nor­way and the Nordic coun­tries, you’re always wel­come over :-)

  7. rennyba said on July 25th, 2009 at 6:04 pm

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  8. Tinu said on July 26th, 2009 at 11:05 pm

    @Alice,

    Well, I’d say start with a man­age­able plan. For exam­ple, I started off this blog with daily text posts, and now that’s what peo­ple expect from me — most impor­tantly, what I expect from myself. It became over­whelm­ing, con­sid­er­ing I have three other blogs and a hand­ful of new clients. 

    Instead, I could have thrown in a few shorter posts, done an audio, some video… you get the pic­ture — I should be doing what­ever I can to make the work­flow eas­ier on me, with­out entirely aban­don­ing my mission. 

    Because if you don’t what hap­pens when, for rea­sons good or bad, you need new clients? It’s the equiv­a­lent of say­ing to a suitor that was inter­ested in you “hey, I know I ignored you for two months, you still want to go out now?” If you’re lucky and they really, really like you — you still have a shot. But if they didn’t get a chance to know you in the first place? 

    ACK-ward.

    @Renny,

    Hm. I was say­ing that blog island was a Bad place. And if you’re com­ment­ing on other blogs, you’re not treat­ing your blog like an island… so ??? :)

  9. tinustuff said on July 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

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  10. tinustuff said on July 29th, 2009 at 7:16 am

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