Sometimes I wonder if I’ve lost it. I have 10 websites and here I am screwing around with a blog. I’ve been preaching against blogs since day one. I curse the day I started this one.
The truth is I don’t like blogging but every once in awhile I have to take a big ‘ole bite of a gigantic crow sandwich.
If you are pro blogging, don’t celebrate just yet. If you are pro-website builder don’t get depressed. At least read the rest of this post and then you can draw your own conclusions. Fair enough?
Blog vrs. Website
Both can be great models for building a business online.
I know. I sound like a politician. You’re right and you might be wrong.
But this is not about right and wrong anymore. This silly blog vrs. website debate confuses a lot of newbies who want to start their own business and after weighing the pros and cons of both models, decide to do nothing. I don’t blame them so let me do my best to simply explain both these models. By the way newbies, you’ll soon discover that both camps are getting closer and closer to discovering that you really can do both blogs and websites.
Come, let us reason together!
What’s the big draw for blogs?
We don’t need to complicate this. What’s the number 1 argument of blog owners? Right! Blogging is simply a way of delivering information and allowing visitor participation in a sense of community.
In other words, blogging allows your site visitors to count by letting them comment and not just read your wise crap. But to be fair in any argument, we have to take a look at some of the negatives too.
Negatives to blogging from the blog owner point of view:
- frequent postings
- putting up with dumb ass comments
- putting up with dumb ass posters
- putting up with dumb ass scammers and spammers
Let’s take the view from a website owner who happens to be anti-blogging pro-site building. Here’s what she says:
“Blogging just doesn’t make you any money. In fact, it’s nothing more than a way to deliver content and I can do that on a static website and still enjoy building a business and earning income. Not everyone wants to comment or read comments.. they simply want information and a solution to their problems. I build websites with great content and that builds my credibility.”
This debate has gone on and on almost to the point of fistfights within both groups… until now.
Someone with some sanity woke up the online business world to the “your chocolate bar fell into my peanut butter” melting of you can win with both models… with a combination strategy.
In blogging blows chunks part 2, I’ll give you examples of webmasters who get this stuff and what they decided to do. (Hey. If you’re tired of getting teased like this, suck it up and enroll in Mad-U. and get it all… right now.)
Until next time,
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