Blogging is a massive mistake
May 5, 2008 – 12:26 am
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I have just come back from a short break and found that the blogging world has been put under the microscope. It seems to have started with Ken Evoy of SBI then it has been soundly rebuffed by Rosalind Gardner of NetProfitsToday.
Here is a link to the original article by Ken about how blogging can be a big mistake.
And then to balance the article, here is Rosalind’s response Blogging is a “massive mistake” – Huh?. By reading through the comments to Rosalind’s post you will see a balance of views with no clear winner emerging.
Both make very valid points and I can see how Ken’s article would upset those who are very successful in the blogging world. People such as Rosalind are making a comfortable living from online activities involving blogging.
As far as I know from my own experience, blogging is a simple and cheap way to “get online”. I would not go so far as to say that blogging is a massive mistake. I can say that it has been a great learning experience for me and I have met some other wonderful bloggers online.
I intend to keep on blogging as it is a great outlet for me. I am not yet “raking in the money from blogging” but I have not been online for as long as many of the successful bloggers. Besides, I do not do half the things they say I should be doing to build an online income. Whether it is blogging or any other industry or activity, if you ignore the advice of the masters in that industry you increase the risk of failure.
If you are just starting out in the blogging world, read both sides of the argument and see for yourself. No one can tell you blogging is a massive mistake, you have to make up your own mind.
Brendan.
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6 Responses to “Blogging is a massive mistake”
Hi Brendan,
Thanks kindly for the mention.
Just to clarify, my post was in direct response to Ken’s email with its incendiary subject line that called blogging a massive mistake… not so much the article which concedes that blogging can be used to supplement a site, using his site-building platform, of course.
Cheers,
Ros
By Rosalind Gardner superaffiliatehandbook.com on May 5, 2008
Hi Rosalind,
Thanks for your clarification.
I guess Ken is doing what anyone with a product or service would do. I have written posts to support products, sites or services I believe in.
Brendan.
By Brendan brendan-brewster.com on May 5, 2008
Thanks for the comment on my blog, Brendan and I completely agree with your points. Good post. Now I’m going to check out Rosalind’s post.
By Lisa Irby blog.2createawebsite.com on May 8, 2008
Blogging is a tool used as a strategy to communicate and interact – that’s my take. The problem is so many wanna be bloggers don’t understand the basic rules for any blog or website. Terry Dean posted on these two rules succinctly http://www.terrydean.org/quality-website-traffic.
By Melody Campbell, The Small Business Guru thesmallbusinessguru.com on May 23, 2008
Thanks Melody for the link to Terry’s website. It is an informative post and great reading for any blogger/website owner wanting to develop more traffic.
I enjoy blogging but I often mess up some of the so-called “rules” of successful blogging. I will have to study Terry’s post in more detail and develop some more discipline.
By Brendan on May 24, 2008