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Joe Loomer
July 29, 2009 at 9:18 am
Great post Bill – went through this very thing over the last month. I came to the exact same conclusion – just write. I had a vision of some extravagant market report that would have ended up so long no one would have gone past the first two or three paragraphs. When I realized my target audience was PROSPECTS – I condensed it dramatically and ended up knocking it out in no time. JUST WRITE.
Navy Chief, Navy Pride
LesleyLambert
July 29, 2009 at 10:36 am
Boy haven’t I learned that the hard way! It always strikes me as interesting that some blogs I thought would be very interesting to people get NO activity and others that were a whim are busy.
You just never know!
Kelly
July 29, 2009 at 10:50 am
Great point. Just this morning I was thinking whether a post I’d written would be interesting enough to publish or not. And your post has given me the answer: I’ll be publishing it later today.
Let me add one more thing to the interesting points you rise: sometimes we think that something is not particularly important to be put in our blog, but it eventually turns out that some of our readers feel identified with it and enjoy it. Just for this reason it’s been worthwhile to write it, even if you initially had doubts.
IleenieWeenie
July 29, 2009 at 11:02 am
Yeah, I’m still procrastinating on writing my very first blog post ever. Stage fright I guess. Thanks for the reminder that I don’t have to turn to the perfectionism monster every time I set out to try something new. If I did that I’d never do anything at all!
Matt Thomson
July 29, 2009 at 3:47 pm
This is one of the best thoughts that I’ve read. Consistency is the key to blogging. I average about 1 per day (355 per year), and most of them are just basic or photos.
Jonathan Dalton
July 29, 2009 at 6:57 pm
What I find interesting is it’s many of the veterans who are struggling with this these days.
Bill Lublin
July 29, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Joe – Have I told you how much I appreciate your thoughtful comments and regular readership? If not, allow me to do that now. As you can see this was one of those “just do it” posts – glad it seems to have hit a chord…
Lesley; Always makes me scratch my head too – amazing how little we know about what people want to read – sometimes we’re just too busy “being legends in our own minds”. I did a quick post of phones a little while ago that got a ton of comments – and last night I was with a blogger who is very well known nationally who told me that they sometimes get fewer comments because their topics are often too intellectual – go figure…
Kelly; Glad if I got you to publish that post – I’ll bet it rocks!
IleenieWeenie – If you’ll email me whenever you get that post written – I would love to read it.. and I promise a comment 😉
Matt – I am in awe – but you do have the key – people love content, and content is whatever you contribute whenver you contribute it – great job!
Mr Dalton my dear friend – so nice to see you – and I feel the issue , but maybe because we get in our own way.. thank goodness there are always friends around to help us get right!
🙂
teresa boardman
July 30, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Lucky for me with over 1500 posts on one blog alone I gave up on the idea that each would be OK a couple of years ago. With each post I think I have written my last word but by the next day I have some idea. If I could give some advice . . I probably wouldn’t. I suspect that writing a blog isn’t the same for everyone and we all have to find what works and when we do we can at least write something every day.
Amy Cesario
August 2, 2009 at 11:24 am
Thanks for the reminder and good advise Bill!
BawldGuy
August 2, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hitting homers on a daily basis is draining in every sense of the word. Especially true when you learn that the majority of your posts are indeed, not homers.
Most hits are singles, and that works too. 🙂