Comments on: Your First Week of Blogging – Write Compelling Content

By: Amy Cameron

Amy Cameron — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:29:45 +0000

A good suggestion for the first blog would be: Why Did You Create That Blog In the First Place?

Right? :) At least your readers would understand why that particular blog exists.

Amy Cameron
BuildMySiteforFree.com

By: Erik Karff

Erik Karff — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:32:53 +0000

Terrific series and thanks for the ideas. I am about to start my blog up and would love some advice. I have read a good deal about keeping the blog focused. I have varying interests. I want to mainly focus my content on media technology. I would love to get some feedback on these topics before I launch – social media, how tos, new technology, green technology, entertainment.

Are these too broad?

Thanks!!!

Erik

By: Dave Higgs

Dave Higgs — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:19:45 +0000

While a lot has been said about getting content ready before you go live – a lesson from my blog is that at some point you need to actually just do it.

A person can easily become so out-faced by preparing for “the perfect launch” that they miss the boat.

By: Killer Ab Workout

Killer Ab Workout — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:12 +0000

I totaly agree with you darren, this is a perfect true example that i belive and i know its true. Thanks darren!

By: fas

fas — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:28:20 +0000

Take it easy I say and start commenting all around.

By: Khairul

Khairul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:37:28 +0000

Thanks Darren… However, I will try to set a few schedule entry as suggested.. You know, just in case I “forgot” to update. :)

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:57:11 +0000

Khairul – its certainly possible – this is just a suggestion. I’m sure many successful blogs launch in other ways.

By: Khairul

Khairul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:12:03 +0000

Thanks for the great post.. I wish I found this earlier since I’ve just launched my blog a few days ago with nothing to actually guide me..

Just a question though, is it possible if you just launch the blog without all the schedule post?

Thank you

By: bigjobsboard

bigjobsboard — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:26:34 +0000

cThis is a great post! Thanks for posting articles like this. It helps me a lot.

By: Andrew Peel

Andrew Peel — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:32:34 +0000

Great content advice even though I have been Blogging for a year I have bookmarked this and will refer back to it. I have found epic based on your interpretation of key concepts in classic books relating to personal development. Just remember it’s what you have learned from reading the book that makes it unique as opposed to repeating the points. That’s a lesson it took me a while to learn.

By: abercrombie and fitch

abercrombie and fitch — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:22:58 +0000

it’s all easier said than done, isn’t it?

By: The Rat

The Rat — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 05:16:33 +0000

Nice thread. There is no shortage of things to learn from this site.

PS. I’m about 1/3 through your book and really enjoy it. I’m taking my time to soak it all in, while at the same time doing my own PF blog. Great stuff.!

By: Archan Mehta

Archan Mehta — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:30:18 +0000

Darren:

Thanks for the suggestions and ideas from readers.

However, a blog is time-consuming. Who has the time?

It takes a lot of discipline and willingness to sacrifice, to be sure.

Blogging is not for everybody. And not everybody is computer savvy. Computers have many complicated features these days.

Business acumen is also not everybody’s cup of tea. To convert a blog into something that pays the bills is challenging.

And people have a job and chores and have to run errands.
That does not leave us which much time nor energy.

For some, it is better just to chill out or read the blogs by other people. Maybe they can leave comments like I tend to do.

Joining social networks is also very time-consuming. I would rather read a book or relax with the morning newspaper rather than spend so much time on-line, but that’s just me. Cheerio.

By: Amy Posner

Amy Posner — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:02:10 +0000

Great tips on organizing ideas. I find it’s so critical to actually stop and write down/record ideas as they come, whether it’s for me or for clients – too often I’ve been sure I’ll remember – after all, how could I forget such a great idea! Ha.

What you suggest is simple, but elegant (at least to my mind), as the best ideas often are. Thanks for the insight. I’m going to differentiate my folders per your suggestions RIGHT NOW.

By: Samantha Milner

Samantha Milner — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:49:01 +0000

I couldn’t agree any more – i get lots of customers that come to me complaining that their blog isnt getting repeat traffic. Then i will have a look at how they started their blog and the content has just not been up to it.

kind regards

sam
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By: Marsha Keeffer

Marsha Keeffer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:47:07 +0000

Having a well of posts in reserve is important. I wish I’d done that when I launched Mint…

By: abercrombie and fitch uk

abercrombie and fitch uk — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:06:34 +0000

That way, blogging for you doesn’t become a bore and chore. This also makes the reader more interested in what you are saying because you put a lot of heart into it.

By: Hugh Highroller

Hugh Highroller — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:58:11 +0000

There is no compelling content on my blog. None whatsoever. In spite of this, I fully believe that my blog will be wildly successful. We shall see.

By: Shahrukh Khan

Shahrukh Khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:07:40 +0000

My biggest problem is that I have too many ideas to write about and then in the end I don’t write down any of them. I keep promising myself that I will write posts when I reach home from work. But once home, I keep delaying it until at the end of the week it all feels so useless.

The next week I am charged up again with the new ideas and this cycle keeps going.

By: John

John — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:27:24 +0000

I agree with you that you need to have several posts written before launch and a number in reserve – I tried to set up a blog (for SEO putposes I admit) with not much time to write content and Google indexed it briefly and then deindexed it in spite of a couple of ezine articles as backlinks. With hindsight, I’d have been better off spending more time on blog content.