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By: Why You Should Ditch Your Blogging Schedule | Men with Pens

Why You Should Ditch Your Blogging Schedule | Men with Pens — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:01:12 +0000

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By: Is Blogging Really Necessary? « Brianna Petersen

Is Blogging Really Necessary? « Brianna Petersen — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:37:05 +0000

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By: Maria Elena Paiva

Maria Elena Paiva — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:12:14 +0000

Thanks James for sharing this blog post and it might sound cliched or repetitive that your post has helped me a lot. I’m into blogging because of my passion for writing and penning down my thoughts. I’m surely going to benefit a lot from your post and the points mentioned in it, in my endeavor to make something out of blogging!

Thanks again

By: Maria Elena Paiva

Maria Elena Paiva — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:09:55 +0000

Thanks James for sharing important points of blogging with us. It might sound cliched or repeated comment, as i can see numerous comments above but I’ve set foot in the field of blogging to share and generate my passion for writing

By: Thursday Thoughts: Including This is Broken | Big Red Tomato Company

Thursday Thoughts: Including This is Broken | Big Red Tomato Company — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 05:06:31 +0000

[...] On a similar theme, James from menwithpens.ca raises in his article an interesting question about whether the blogging efforts we are doing are reall worth it. Are Your Blogging Efforts Worth It? [...]

By: Gail Hanlon

Gail Hanlon — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:58:52 +0000

I’m with you Andy.
I enjoy seeking out blogs but most of the blogs – and groups – found on Linked In seem to treat the exercise as a sales opportunity. Blogs purport to be giving great tips or guidance on how to do x, but you don’t gain any better insights than if you Googled the topics. There is very little pleasure of the written word.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:22:28 +0000

I originally hoped for great things from my business idea and blog based around it. These hopes were more wishes and due to health reason had little chance of them becoming reality.
So Photohelper is no longer something i want a ROI from, but i did really have to question what i wanted from blogging. So now it has evolved into a journal style with Photography as it’s backbone. If i’m honest that suits me better and maybe time will show it was the best way forward for the idea.

By: Roschelle

Roschelle — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:04:07 +0000

So worth it for me. I’m too busy to sit down and put pen to paper (remember the old fashioned way?) But I love to write and write and write.

Blogging gives me that opportunity. It’s not about capturing an audience or an extremely large readership. I just like to get the thoughts out of my head and transform them into something that lives and breathes. That’s writing…and that’s why I blog

An occasional conversation in the form of comments is nice, from time to time!

By: Melinda | SuperWAHM

Melinda | SuperWAHM — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:36:16 +0000

Andy, the responses on this post are from people who are blogging as part of their business marketing strategy, and that’s exactly who this post was written for. It’s about business, and the use of our resources – the major one being our time.

I personally read a lot of non-business blogs purely for their entertainment value, and I have my own personal blog for the same reason. I don’t care if no one else ever reads it because it’s not paying the bills.

My business blog is a part of marketing strategy that does pay my bills and for that reason I need to know that I’m getting a respectable ROI from my time and energy that I put into it. If you’re blogging for business then you need to have a purpose and intention for your blogging. If it’s not contributing to your bottom line then why are you doing it?

We’re talking business here, that can be entertaining and it’s great when it is, but entertainment is not the primary function of a business blog, unless you’re in the Entertainment industry.

By: Andy Lynam

Andy Lynam — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:51:08 +0000

I’m afraid I’ve found most of these responses a little depressing.

Maybe I’m some sort of deluded idealist, but does no one write blogs to entertain, or read blogs to be entertained? It seems not, which is probably why we are now wading up to our armpits in so many deadly dull preachy blogs. What about the pleasure of the written word? Both as creator and consumer? Does everything have to be quantifiable in ROI? Do we have to be so didactic in all our web dealings?

There is only so much packaged-up, search-engine-friendly sermons that a person can take. There should be a 10-year moratorium. It will take us that long to consume the backlog of studiously keyworded sagacity.