s there really a the other hand, asking yourself
compelling reason to start why you should start your own
a blog when you could be blog takes on added importance,
spending your time working on because anyone maintaining a
your website? Is a blog really as productive blog will have to make
effective a marketing tool as a a commitment of time if he or she
traditional website? It all expects the blog to succeed.
depends.
If you are considering a
Whether or not you should start productive blog, you would do
your own blog depends largely on well to steer clear of the social
the use to which you blog will be networking arena and set yourself
put. Many bloggers are blogging up on one of the blog hosting
for strictly social reasons; sites like WordPress or Blogger.
other use their blogs for When you have your blog up and
productive purpose; and some running, you’ll no longer need to
bloggers manage to combine ask yourself “Why start your own
socializing and being productive blog when you have an existing
in a single blog. website?”
If your intention in starting a One time consuming aspect of
blog is to socialize, you will be maintaining a blog is that of
most successful by creating your monitoring the comments posted by
blog at one of the high-traffic your blog’s readers. While those
social networking sites like fresh contents can keep your blog
MySpace and opening it up for in the of search engines’ radar,
comments so that you can begin a you could end up with some less
dialog with your readers. than desirable blog posts and
even get caught in the middle of
If you want a productive blog, on battles between your viewers.
products, leave a few challenging
Blog comments are also often comments on related blogs, with
abused by spammers who simply links to you blog so that those
want to plug their own websites, who are interested can drop by to
blogs, or pet causes. And if you argue your point. When they
have to spend a great amount of arrive at your blog, lure them to
time refereeing warring readers, your sales page.
you’ll have that much less time
to attend to the marketing Why start a blog when you already
aspects of your blog. have a website? To socialize, to
become more productive, or to
If you think you can manage it, become more productive by
create a blog which allows you to socializing. Blogs simply
interact socially with your function in ways that websites
readers at the same time you are were never meant to!
using it to increase your
productivity. Why?
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