Blog – Good Reasons to Get One

One man’s blog may be a very rewarding endeavor, both in terms of enjoyment and money. And yet you might be asking “Why a blog? Wouldn’t a website be better? Which should I choose?” To address the issue let’s compare the features you can expect from each.

1. Price tag

A decent looking website is not free. But even in the unlikely event you could talk someone into giving you a free site design – and that’s not likely – it still has to be hosted at a cost of $10 – $20 minimum per year. A blog on the other hand can be free of cost.

2. Setting up

Creating a website is difficult if not impossible for those who lack the necessary skills; and even given the proper expertise, it can take a long while to complete the task. A blog however, can be created quickly and easily. The procedure is a matter of filling in some information; and it’s designed to be easily achievable by just about anyone. One man’s blog can be set up in less than 30 minutes, by a person who has minimal knowledge of the Internet and yet be as qualitative as an above-average website.

A good website can involve a month to create. However, you can create an excellent blog in less than 30 minutes!

3. Making money

A website may be a good way to generate some spending money as a stage for selling various services or products. A blog can do likewise, and equally well if you market and promote it well. Any one man’s blog will do just as well as a similar website.

4. Aesthetics

Animation, audio and video are some of the techniques that can be used on a website. Your blog spot by comparison, may not be able to include all the high-tech stuff, though it has enough to put up a good show. Therefore one man’s blog spot might not be as “flashy”, but just as effective.

5. Maintaining and marketing

A blog can be constantly updated from day to day. Consequently blogging can easily attract more visitors compared to a website given equal effort. Fresh content can be more easily added to a blog than to a website.

So you might say a blog promotes itself, since whenever fresh content is posted the search engines will index it again. By comparison promotion of a website demands a greater investment in time to produce traffic.

Whether or not you already have a website blogging is a worthwhile. It’s not at all unusual to find a website supported by blogs which are constructed and directed specifically to draw in traffic to the mother website.

Blogging can also be very enjoyable since you can share your pictures and experience without spending a dime. Many people who initially began with a website after a time moved to blogging since it’s uncomplicated, can be done at no cost, and gives you the opportunity to upgrade it continuously.

The question therefore should not be “What reason is there to have a blog?” but “Why not have a blog?” The benefits being so numerous there’s just no reason not to take advantage of blogging.?

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Jim Eastman writes about a wide range of things. One mans blog is simple and easy to create using online services. Check out an example at http://anyonemansblog.com/blog/

It seems to me that if you can learn how to be the life of the party, you can learn how to work the social media scene. Let’s think of it as a party then, and do a run down of how it would work out.

Stage One: You Go to the Party

If you’re smart, you’ll be invited, or better yet, throw the party. The party of course, meaning the place where you socially interact in the social media arena.

On a social news site, the party might get started when you submit a link, or a party in progress might be a story you vote on that’s rising in popularity.

Stage Two: You Find the People Who Like What You Like

As Rob Gordon says in High Fidelity, “What really matters is what you like, not what you are like.” So find the people who have the same tastes as you, follow what they’re voting for, or saving, or where they’re hanging out.

So often, friendships are based on common interests.

Stage Three: You Mirror and Create Rapport

You know how you meet someone knew and start picking up their expressions, etc. When you’re meeting people online, we also tend to try on aspects of other people’s behavior. You’ll suggest things to each other, or catch yourself imitating one of the Alpha Populars.

There’s actually a scientific background to this. For example, in the book Unlimited Power, Anthony Robbins talks about how establishing rapport can be used to build connections to other people.

Stage Four: You Make a Gesture

Eventually, you’ll start to drill down to your favorite folks, and in natural course, do something for them. It’s partially the paying of an imagined social debt – when people enrich our lives by sharing information we enjoy, we often feel like reciprocating.

That’s one of the reasons the free e-book still works to get newsletter sign-ups.

Stage Five: The Gesture is Appreciated, or Even Reciprocated

When you get feedback from shared links, when you are thanked for your gesture, or the person you hooked up does you some kind of solid back, you’ve definitely got the basis for a relationship.

It’s a two-way street.

Stage Six: You Are Friends, Or the Life of the Party

At least, you are in the online sense of the phrase. This is the time when you can send a link out of the blue even if you haven’t spoken in a few days. Not only that, this link is voted on, passed around, or shared.

So there you go, you’re popular again, ten times more than you were in high school. Just remember the most important thing you can do in a relationship is to maintain or enhance it. It isn’t magic, you have to keep working on any relationship you want to keep intact.

So don’t take this new connection for granted, and keep doing the thing that made you become familiar to each other in the first place.

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