There are lots of blogs here on AR about blogging. Great ones, short ones, long ones, fun silly ones and serious ones. They all have a common thread. In business now days you can live by the blog or die a slow, quiet and unnoticed death in cyberspace.
I joined Active Rain in early 2008. I had only been in business a few months and was pretty new to the blog thing. I definitely didn't get or appreciate the whole internet scene.
I kind of jumped right in and in a matter of a few short months, I noticed I was getting calls from prospective clients that had found me on the internet through my AR activity. This mind you with no understanding of SEO stuff, tags, meta tags and all that other jargon. All I did was write here and there (not so well) and commented (ticked off a few, excel at that).
Then I did a really stupid thing. I frequented this wonderful scene less and less. I had many excuses for this, some valid, some not. I was worried about being original, relevant...I would get no comments...I had no time....who reads this stuff anyway....
Guess what happened? My Google "juice" not that strong to begin with but getting better, died off. Still got calls but the drop was noticeable. I said to self....self, times are tough out there. I guess I may not have been totally convinced of the whole blogging thing, but in the back of my head I knew the ugly truth.
Not only did I feel cyberspace fading away, I was missing all the funny, informative and cutting edge stuff that gets posted on here about everything from Real Estate to Virtual trends and yes even Politics.
Great people who I might never meet otherwise abound on Active Rain. Great, supportive, entertaining and knowledge sharing people.
Moral of my story, you can either fade your potential, or live by the blog.
AccentPositives provides effective and economical consultations on site and on line. We service the Inland Empire area of Southern California.
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