blogging is so hott right now
This Business Week On-Line article, Blogs Will Change Your Business does an excellent job summing up the hype surrounding blogging, and does quite a good job at a little blogging 101.
I happen to agree that businesses/individuals ought to jump on the bandwagon, if only to contribute to the new medium. There are some really great benefits to putting a blog “out there.” Just to give an example, take for instance, a real estate agent.
Said Real Estate Agent puts out a blog that is, at first, simply a copy-paste of a newsletter update sent to friends/family/clients (not some auto-generated one, but with personal stuff too), and does a little bit of linking. Perhaps talks about general blog type stuff, like, “went to Fox Theater this weekend…. did Habitat for Humanity…. Showed my favorite listing to some friends….” Of course, linking the listing to an MLA listing, and others.
This accomplishes several things. The Agent is now establishing in-bound link relevancy to search engines. Since the agent claims to know such and such neighborhoods, and have such and such listings, and be the
OK, I got it: seebq.com Blogging Consultants, Inc. I figure this idea is worth about 500k in VC money. Who’s in?
May 26th, 2005 08:03
CBQ,
If you asked me to join you in an adam & adam gay lover poster contest I would probably do it… Jesus, man why the hell does CBQ have so much power…ohh yea bigger brain, duh.
May 26th, 2005 13:02
J-Rock - I may take you up on this poster photo shoot, if it would allow me to catch up with you! Hey, maybe after the shoot we could go have a beer and pretend that we didn’t just participate in a homo-erotic photo shoot. Or not. Thanks for the post!