Max

What drives me up a wall are bloggers who have nothing to say, nothing to offer, who expect their sites to provide them with the hard earned revenues of the advertising budgets of the companies who choose to use their channel for advertising. Shame on them, and well, shame on them too.

The articles that bring the most value to my readers are articles to which I have dedicated some time to write. Without evidence, like photos, it’s tough to validate that someone’s article is being written first-hand.

Kenney
The Work From Home Secret

Even the descrption gives a clear picture certain things could have been removed. Atleast I got destracted. I feel a blog should be very simple and something which can be understood for a common man also. Then only we will be able to get much inputs.

Nor can I quite escape the notion that this is a long-winded way of affirming a fundamental truth: there’s no substitute for quality.

What a concept.

I have found that planning is the key to successful blogging.

In my book, “Straight Talk for Success,” I lay out five keys to success: 1) self confidence, 2) positive personal impact, 3) outstanding performance, 4) dynamic communication skills, and 5) interpersonal competence.

I blog about one of these every day. Monday is always self confidence day; Tuesday, positive personal impact; Wednesday, outstanding performance; Thursday, dynamic communication; Friday, interpersonal competence.

In this way, I can look for current events that relate to the points i want to emphasize. On Tuesday, January 20, inauguration day in the USA, I blogged about Barack Obama’s ability to create positive personal impact. On Thursday, January 22, I blogged about the lessons we can learn about making presentations by watching President Obama’s inaugural address.

You can see these posts at http://www.SuccessCommonSense.com.

Thanks again for a great post,

Bud Bilanich
The Common Sense Guy

Though I think he IS:-)

Things are starting to loosen up a bit, some of the corporate blogs are better designed, they are turning more into conversations and less sales talk. The worst corporate blogs run for 6 months and get 10 reads and no comments and are shut down so we are seeing mostly well written blogs surviving.

I don’t think a corporate blog will reach the same quality of writing (or stickiness or personality) as the best niche blogs until they make the writer feel they own the blog – bonus payments for traffic and click throughs, person profile page, internal promotion of blog posts through newsletters and emails and some customisation of look and feel are some ways to help a blogger feel like they part own a corporate blog.

This article will help in a major way.

I like to think in terms of intrinsic value vs. market value.

When something’s undervalued by the market, you got a deal. When something’s way overpriced compared to it’s intrinsic value, you got a bubble waiting to bust.

CS-Weekly, no blogging hasn’t peaked. Realize that it is a communications tool. Communication will never become obsolete. If it isn’t called blogging, it’ll be called something else.

Targeted niche blogging works very well. Believe it or not there’s a big world out there where real people who use the Internet haven’t heard of Digg, StumbleUpon and Twitter. And, amazingly enough, they actually buy stuff online.

To tell the truth, when I start to do something, I started right at the bubble top. Oh, you know what I’m talking about :( and now I just started a blog.

@Sheila, People who are into this for quick buck will never go away, but overall will plummet. Some of them have to go through the pain before realizing the fact, but hopefully one or two new bloggers learn from ProBlogger, and specifically this post, about the reality.

@Neil, I understand what you’re saying but this post doesn’t try to go into in depth about the report. In fact, I didn’t read the report at all, just taking what’s freely available and based on that perspective, match it to current situation. Without the hype cycle, this post is still relevant. It is about the history and where the whole industry is going toward.

@Jason, the sole purpose of this is to tell readers about the state of the industry. As others have agreed, it is about viewing blogging from the right perspective and adopt it as a mindset. This plays a large part in success in any venture. Without it, actions don’t matter at all. In the next posts in the series, I go deep into actionable and doable plan. Obviously you miss the last few paragraphs when I mentioned about it. Perhaps you’ll change your mind after reading the next posts.