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Topic: Advertising/PR

Who Has A Marketing Related Blog?

Posted by Anonymous on 12/2/2005 at 1:36 PM ET 50 Points
One of my long term clients suggested I do a blog as a quicky vehicle to show the creative side of my writing. It can be a bridge between my business writing site and my literary fiction site.

I am in the infancy of creating the blog. It is called allwritejulie. I view that as appropro title. If anyone has a blog that is in in the marketing consulting arena perhaps we can link.

I'm open to suggestions on blogging. My chief requirement is that this be a quickie thing and not a time intensive venture.
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  • Posted on 12/4/2005 at 3:31 PM Accepted
    I am a writer for an advertising/marketing blog called Beyond Madison Avenue

    www.beyondmadisonavenue.com

    In my opinion, and I have written about this on BMA frequently, but next year you are really going to see blogs take off as a way for saavy employees to showcase their talents to employers and recruiters.

    However.....there is NO 'quicky' way to set up and maintain a professional blog. None. You are going to have to work at it almost every day. It will be a part-time job at least. I spend at least 40 hours a week either posting on BMA, or doing research for my next post, or in developing a network for the existing posts. BMA has now been up for 2.5 months, and already has over 30 blogs linked to it. We are currently ranked in the top 90,000 blogs, out of 23 million that Technorati ranks. That's incredible growth for a blog less than 3 months old, and with zero company backing. But it's taken a ton of work. But myself and the other writers are willing to put in that work, cause we feel the payoff will be well worth it.

    The real question you have to ask yourself is: How talented are you? If you are talented, then you OWE it to yourself to create and maintain a solid blog. That is why I spend so much time on BMA, because I know it's gives me exposure to literally the world. Exposure that a wannabe marketing professional from rural Alabama would otherwise never get.

    If you can't devote time to your blog every day, you'd be better off not even starting one. Potential clients/employers will view it and see you only post once a week or so, and think you lack commitment.

    It's going to take a ton of work, but anything worth having does(never heard that one before, eh?)

    Good luck! If you don't mind, post a link to your blog, I'd love to read it. If you have any questions you can email me, check my profile my email addy is there.

    Mack
  • Posted on 12/4/2005 at 6:50 PM Author
    Thanks for the responses. I am very talented and will be famous as a result of my stories and novels. Whether I choose to prove it will a blog I don't know. I have no intension of having my blog be a part time job. I am writing my next novel and my agent wants more book proposals which take time away from my client work. I think the blog may be an experiment quickly abandoned.
  • Posted on 12/5/2005 at 3:28 AM Member
    "Thanks for the responses. I am very talented and will be famous as a result of my stories and novels. Whether I choose to prove it will a blog I don't know. I have no intension of having my blog be a part time job. I am writing my next novel and my agent wants more book proposals which take time away from my client work. I think the blog may be an experiment quickly abandoned."

    Well like I said if you don't want to put time into the blog, you definitely don't need to start one. It takes time to develop a network of readers to your blog, and a lot of posts. But once you have that network in place, your writing is given invaluable exposure.

    Good luck with whatever road you choose!

    Mack
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