While I am a rank novice in blogging, I have formed a few initial impressions.<\/p>\n
I?d like to share them with you now, and pray these don?t get me into more hot water in the blogosphere:<\/p>\n
1. For a solo practitioner (freelance copywriter) like me, my time is the only thing I have to sell. <\/p>\n
Therefore, I am concerned that, since for me time equals money, my blogging is costing me a lot of money ? with no visible ROI other than fun.<\/p>\n
2. Bloggers ? both those who have blogs and write the journal entries, as well as those who read blogs and write the posts ? seem to have much more free time than I do ? or more energy (probably the latter, though I work a 60+ hour week).<\/p>\n
I am amazed at the detailed posts some of you guys make, or that you go look at, read, and respond to blogs so often.<\/p>\n
3. I am beginning to suspect that the blogosphere, or at least the marketing segment of it, is much smaller than I originally imagined. <\/p>\n
There seems to be active blogging from a small core of hardcore marketing bloggers ? about two dozen individuals.<\/p>\n
4. In marketing and small business blogs, those who read and post to them seem to be individuals or other small businesses. <\/p>\n
It doesn?t seem to me that the big players ? e.g., marketing directors of Fortune 1000 companies ? are active bloggers. <\/p>\n
5. Some of you guys love to argue and are, by your own admission, contentious. On the posts on this blog, both Rick Bruner <\/a>and Paul W. <\/a>attribute to me statements I never made, and pick fights that no one else has started.<\/p>\n Am I accurate here? Or way off base?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I am a rank novice in blogging, I have formed a few initial impressions. I?d like to share them with you now, and pray these don?t get me into more hot water in the blogosphere: 1. For a solo practitioner (freelance copywriter) like me, my time is the only thing I have to sell. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}