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So, what' the 'cost' of blogging?   Message List  
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Re: So, what' the 'cost' of blogging?

Hmmm, I'm not sure I know anyone that actually blogs for the money. I
mean, who is the customer, and who would pay, and for what?

Some people blog nonsense, some people blog for personal reasons. I'm
not sure why I do it. I don't blog that often, it goes in spurts.
When I'm in a creative season, it's easy to blog. When I'm not, I
don't. It usually takes me about 20-30 minutes to put out a blog
article, and sometimes I can write it on my PDA on my 28 minute train
commute in the morning.

Some people blog every day. I can't do that. I won't put out
something just to say something or to be on a schedule.

The cost of blogging is some time, and some vulnerability. I think
that blogging should reveal your soul: your heart, your mind and your
emotion. If it doesn't, just post a website...

Joe Bartling
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--- In LinkedinBloggers@yahoogroups.com, Paul Dube <paul.dube@g...> wrote:
> OK you bloggers, you have a number of blogging newbies here. I know
I am
> wondering but I bet I'm not alone. What is the 'cost' of blogging?
>
> Some people like to 'gab'. Others like to write. Others still like
to talk.
> Some like to talk, write, and listen only if it is about themselves.
While
> these people exist, I do not think we have any here. I get the
feeling that
> the bloggers here do it because it makes them money.
>
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OK you bloggers, you have a number of blogging newbies here. I know I am wondering but I bet I'm not alone. What is the 'cost' of blogging? Some people like to...
Paul Dube
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May 29, 2005
12:22 pm

Hmmm, I'm not sure I know anyone that actually blogs for the money. I mean, who is the customer, and who would pay, and for what? Some people blog nonsense,...
jbartlin1
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May 30, 2005
1:47 am

... Blogging is often done as marketing, as much of my writing is for. So it's part of the money-making process, but not the product itself. I actually do...
Danny R. Faught
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May 30, 2005
4:06 am

... The only people I know who are actually making significant incomes from their blogs are the high traffic political pundits. They are making money by...
chenowethp
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May 30, 2005
11:14 am

... Joe is right on target. One of the interesting aspects of blogging is that authors/writers/bloggers develop a 'voice'. That 'voice' is a combination of...
chenowethp
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May 30, 2005
11:21 am

Paul, The good news is that blogging is not a one-size-fits-all sort of thing. There are several motivations (including money) that get people into writing a...
chenowethp
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May 30, 2005
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Thank you everyone, for this thread. There is some interesting information in it. However, I guess I threw you all off the scent by mentioning money. When I...
Paul Dube
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May 30, 2005
12:41 pm

... It takes me probably 30 minutes to write an average blog entry consisting of a handful of paragraphs. A longer article of around 800 words takes 2 hours...
Danny R. Faught
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May 30, 2005
2:23 pm

Thanks Danny, since I am not a writer, I should probably plan to double that. I am sure there would be times I could write something faster but 'on average'......
Paul Dube
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May 30, 2005
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... Of course it varies from one topic to the next. If it's a topic you're both passionate and knowledgeable about, then your greatest challenge will probably...
Danny R. Faught
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May 30, 2005
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Danny, Some people will get a 404 because of the period on the end of your URL. For convenience, here it is without the period:...
Vincent
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May 30, 2005
3:28 pm

<snip> ... Hi Danny, I just posted a humorous ancedote to this blog. :)...
Paul Dube
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... Cool, I'll follow up there. That's one way we can support each other, adding comments that make a blog more alive. Even when I have thousands of readers,...
Danny R. Faught
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May 30, 2005
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... double ... but 'on ... Paul I don't think anyone could tell you what is 'typical'. Here's something that most regular bloggers know but don't seem to talk...
Des Walsh
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May 30, 2005
11:42 pm

Paul, I don't know about others but, for me, all my time is networking time - including the very modest amount of "blogging" I do on a blog. (I blog all day...
Vincent
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May 30, 2005
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Paul, I carved out early morning hours in my daily schedule to commit to blogging...probably a couple of hours between 3:30AM and 6:00AM. During the day,...
chenowethp
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May 31, 2005
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Hi Paul and Paul ... I do not really look at blogging as separate from networking. I blog depending on stuff that strike me on reading my bloglines for the...
Gautam Ghosh
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May 31, 2005
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I think Des has hit the banana right on the monkey's mouth. I started blogging in a much confused manner, having no (and still none) prose what so ever, and as...
Alvin Narsey
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May 31, 2005
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... Can I suggest that *some* of the best bloggers collate information, making the interesting or unusual more discoverable? Other bloggers actually produce...
Dave Taylor
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May 31, 2005
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... wrote: <snip> Stay focused, write with enthusiasm and passion, engage your audience, make sure you don't have grevious spelling and grammatical mistakes,...
Des Walsh
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... By George, I have: http://www.blogsmart.com/ ... Dave Taylor Online Marketing and Communications for the 21st Century * http://www.intuitive.com/ ||...
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