"Blogging Thoughts" Posts

Are you blogging? Great! Is it what you’d thought it would be? Here are five things to consider as you continue to blog away:

1. It’s Hard Work
While you put in your hours at the start, are you still plugging away with the same enthusiasm? With so much competing for your time (family, “real job,” fun, etc.) you can get lulled into putting your blog aside. Everyone has the same 24 hours, so making your your blog a goal will get the job done.

2. The Rewards Are Not Instant
Hope you didn’t think that blogging was one of the ways to get rich quickly?! Your rewards will come if you continue to work hard to build your traffic, create a worthy reputation, interact with your readers, and work at it day by day. Create realistic goals, look for building blocks of success and build on those to keep you going.

Interesting thought on Seth Godin’s blog today:

So what if your company’s blog only reaches a few dozen people a day. If they’re the right people, the payoff is obvious.

While a bunch of traffic is nice, it’s the reach that is more important. Who will you blog for today?

Are you a blogger? Do you have your own blog or do you write one for your company? Why do you do it?

Here are some of our favorites reasons, in no particular order. Some of them may inspire you to get blogging!

• It’s a vital part of marketing your business.
• To express yourself and promote opinions.
• Blogging platforms and add-ons are free.
• It’s fast becoming the top internet marketing tool.
• To be heard.
• It’s easy to update.
• To educate.
• To make money – by selling something or dabbling in blog advertising.
• To offer tips, techniques, and best practices.

Not blogging yet? ContentRobot offers 5 reasons why you should be.

1. Publishing Content is Easier.
Blog posts can be written with minimal knowledge of HTML, can be done from any browser, can be written at any time (even multiple times per day), and you don’t need a big team of web specialists to update your content.

2. Blogs Make it More Personal
Blogs are not written by corporations, but are written by people. When bloggers infuse their personalities into their posts, blogs become more alive and interesting.

3. Conversations are Encouraged
Trackbacks and comments allow blog visitors to get involved and shape conversations. When done in the proper spirit, blogs are just better at building a community than websites.

Why is blogging and other forms of new media becoming more and more popular?

1. We want to participate
Generally, we’ve been led by the hand by “experts” and reporters who present us with the news and other knowledge - and we passively consumed what they said. Today, not only do we want the latest information given to us, but we want to interact and participate in it. New media (such as blogs, podcasts, a camera phone image sharing) promotes expertise in the collective rather than the individual.