Comments on: Remember, Blogging Is A People Business

By: reviews

reviews — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:08:00 +0000

Yes,you’re right,you have to provide them useful information and interactive with them

By: Nigel Chua

Nigel Chua — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:59:40 +0000

Like this post. Straight forward, and to the point. Think people when they start blogs they start it for the wrong reasons – to make money as the key point when it should and will be a by-product of creating value, service for another first.

By: Johnny Laird

Johnny Laird — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:58:56 +0000

Great piece, David….and a timely reminder that it's about people. That's the thing that drew me in the first place.

I think another thing we forget is it's also about the WRITING – over and above the SEO, widgets and all the whistles & bells.

By: joshuanoerr

joshuanoerr — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:16:26 +0000

Luckily David, I suck at the minutea. Design is not my strong point, so I have the luxury of focusing on content and my readers. Good stuff once again my friend.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:33:15 +0000

Hey David
No doubt this applies to everything in life right. Relationships and reciprocity. You get what you give. I have tried in my brief voyage into blogging, to share and to learn while sharing.

I think a lot of people (like me) are reticent to share too much at the beginning for fear of being judged, but you just have to do it and let the feedback fly. The more you practice all this stuff the easier it becomes and the technical details can be overwhelming, but if you keep at it every day, the hard stuff gets easier.

You do have to learn the details, just not at the expense of actually reaching out to people.
Cheers
Mark

By: JillianMcCoy

JillianMcCoy — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:21:22 +0000

You're absolutely right. It's REALLY easy to get bogged down with all the numbers and statistics and strategies of building a successful blog – whether you want to make money with it or not. I'm still quite new (and therefore not having to manage HALF the stuff of the “big guys” like yourself), and can't believe how much minutia there is.

At the core of it though, social media, blogging, whatever you do – it's all there to let you have conversations with people. So you kinda have to be someone they want to have a conversation with. Be nice, make them think, teach them something, be interesting. It all works the same as in person, just through a different medium.

I am totally guilty of letting the little stuff distract me (I don't think I even HAVE meta tags), but luckily that hasn't stopped me from meeting awesome people. Thankfully they seem to like me even though my blog is pig ugly.

By: Blogger VInce

Blogger VInce — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 10:48:58 +0000

Yes, strongly agree on this. This has been a great challenge for me too. Making blog content that talks to people needs practice. Now I am coping up with this.

By: Impulse Magazine

Impulse Magazine — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:42:16 +0000

I definitely agree that blogging involves communicating with people

By: Marek

Marek — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:11:19 +0000

Tweaking your blog endlessly before you launch is amazingly common it seems. It's a terrible thing to do because 1) it delays the true work of relationship building and 2) how are you going to make it perfect with nobody but yourself to give you feedback?

I'm a big fan of bootstrapping. It's better to start on the important things right away and get the little things into place as you go. I think your post covered what the important thing in blogging is pretty well!

By: Mars Dorian

Mars Dorian — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:01:45 +0000

that's a necessary reminder – because I do a lot of the other stuff. The horizon is full of endless options, and I sometimes deviate from the core. I luv that.