Comments on: He Asked Me, “Why Am I Blogging?”

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:44:25 +0000

Teresa,
We don’t wear socks when we blog in California. 🙂

By: teresa boardman

teresa boardman — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:38:42 +0000

Jim – could you send some tomato socks? The love the T but it does not keep my feet warm.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:56:45 +0000

T-
Do you blog in the Tomato T? All my clients and blogging friends receive one to help inspire.

By: teresa boardman

teresa boardman — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:41:44 +0000

I have a problem. I blog because I can’t stop. Once I missed a Wednesday. Think I forgot to shower too. Some days I don’t have clean socks, so I blog bare foot, in Minnesota, in the winter. My cat misses me, so does my bed. I need help . . . think I’ll do a little search, there must be a blog out there with some good advice . . .

By: ElizabethWeintraub

ElizabethWeintraub — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:39:07 +0000

I blog because how else would my friends find me but through Google? I sweat for SEO. That would make a good t-shirt slogan, bumper sticker or maybe a name for an indy band . . .

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:49:24 +0000

Dave,
“””I never leave home anymore without a camera in my pocket, I read every paper, free flyer weekly and local that I can find. I find more local content to blog about than I have time to research and follow up on.”””
That’s some serious localism. Now you sound like a reporter… and you are.
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Derek,
A blog can be used for many types of content management for sure… And your use for class notes is certainly convenient, not disappointing.
Regarding the article, the question that my client was asking was more that he wanted to know why it is that he is blogging – as a Realtor, looking for new clients.
My response is, that although the business blog can be an effective marketing tool for so many reasons, it is the power of the core focus content that brings the greatest reward: traffic.

By: Carole Cohen

Carole Cohen — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:25:57 +0000

I ditto the comment about searching for info and finding my own blog post. While it aggravated me at first it also told me about opportunity! I blog about a variety of things but all tied in to what I hope is of interest to consumers, and for sure is of interest to me. I don’t know any other way to do it. Like Nike says, just do it lol

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:54:19 +0000

Another great post. You are so right that each blog post acts as it’s own web page. That is also why blogrolling is so important, as it automatically builds authority into each page.
This is the challenge of ultralocal blogs though, to get nationally blogrolled, in order to be read and appear in search results locally.

By: Sharon Simms

Sharon Simms — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 12:57:48 +0000

I blog, therefore I am. (slight modification from the original). In addition to all the above reasons for blogging, it also gives you credibility, shows your professionalism, and not only your knowledge but your wisdom.

By: Derek Burress

Derek Burress — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:31:45 +0000

Why do I blog? I hate to disappoint you, but I blog so when I am out of town, I will have all the information I may need including classnotes and other stuff that right at my fingertips on my website. I can log in any where in the world on any computer I please and pull up my infomation. But then again, not many people actually sit down and write their classnotes and stuff in an article format but hey, I’m unique.
Take a look at my derekburress.com site. It’s all classwork on there except for one article. Even the article “Why I want to be a Teacher” is a class assignment.
With my real estate site at realestateperspectives.com, 95% of the stuff on there that I wrote is nothing more than class notes from where I was in real estate school that I rewrote to help me while I was in the studying process.
And you guys through I really blogged – fooled ya!