Reasons To Start a Blog
There are so many reasons why people start a Blog but what should be the most fundamental reason to start one? There are so many motivations for starting one. A lot of you will most likely start one in order to try to earn some cash. But I will have to say that if there is no motivation besides making money then you will very likely find maintaining a Blog very tedious and boring. In fact after 3-6months or so, you will lose interest.
I'm very sure that all the tips and pointers that you get from these Gurus can and will improve the traffic to your Blog. But what about content? You see, if you started a Blog, without the correct motivation, you will lose steam and start copying articles from other Blogs because the passion for it just was not there. I did this too, why? Well, because when you lose interest and motivation to Blog, it just isn't a very interesting (even if its just a few minutes everyday posting a short article).
Now, Blogs maintained by people who started with good motivation will never run into such problems. These people may or may not be in the business of blogging (Blogging for money)but you can see that their content is so much better.
You can tell the passion and interest of the owner just by visiting those Blogs and reading/looking at its contents. Look at the Blogs below for an example.
1. regressless- This Blog I like because you will see that the writers is using their Blog as a way to express their opinions. The articles are both interesting and well research. I give them an a for effort and well I just like it. Blogs should be a way to express our emotions and views. This is important because media is getting more and more restricted. I especially like the post called "Jesus was a Budhist Jew, Paul Founded Christianity".
2. edaeliftibet- A picture is worth a thousand words. So a Blog with pictures is worth even more. The author of this Blog is a great photographer. In this Blog you will see some very interesting and fascinating pictures of India. India is a photographers paradise with its many celebrations, great scenery, interesting places both historical and modern, and people. From the pictures, you can see that the author is not a novice photographer. Can you see the passion in this Blog?
3. tokaido- This very interestingly neat Blog is by Kurt Bell (aka softypapa). Kurt's purpose for maintaining this Blog is so that it will become an archive for his online eBay store. If you scroll through his Blog, you will find some very interesting items along with its english definitions/explanations. For most of us who don't speak or read Japaneses, this is a very informative Blog. I will bet you that this blogger will never run out of topics to write on. Great use a Blog don't you think?
The three samples above are fine examples that show not only different motivations for starting a Blog but they are fine examples of Blogs with passion and serves a real function. You see, these bloggers are blogging with real passion.
In this post alone are links to different Blogs that are all very interesting. Just click on the word "Blog" in this page and you will be taken to many different types of Blogs. I did not want to do a list describing all of them. This way at least there is some sense of adventure. So click on some of them and see if you like them.
2 comments:
Hello SlimFox, Thank you for featuring our blog The Old Tokaido in your review above. I like your forum here and appreciate your coverage of our site. I thought that I would add just a bit to describe why we created The Old Tokaido blog. This blog was indeed created to act as an archive for our store listings, but in addition the blog also serves as an advertising medium and to direct traffic to our eBay store. Keywords allow our blog entries to be found through search engines and then select links within each blog entry allow shoppers to open pages within our eBay store displaying a filtered search of items the shopper was looking for. This form of advertising has proven quite successful for us and is MUCH cheaper (almost free in fact) than buying adwords on Google or by listing items at auction on the eBay site which were previously our main forms of advertising. Another benefit is that while listings on eBay remain available only as long as the item is for sale at the site, our blog entries instead are permanent and will serve to generate store traffic long after the item in question has been sold. The effect is cumulative as every item we blog grows our advertising base and contributes to increased store traffic. It takes just a few minutes to blog an item which time we calculate as our day’s advertising work and though it does slow the overall listing process the time spent has proven very worthwhile. We have also created numerous branch blogs for specific item categories such as Japanese dolls, art, architecture and vintage photography which are fed from the main blog and which themselves add to the overall traffic stream. To date this form of blogging has proven a very good and cost efficient form of advertising which also has the effect of improving our credibility and our company’s overall professional image. We’ve even made sales directly through our blogs and YouTube videos which was a truly unexpected bonus! I hope that this additional information helps to clarify the larger purpose of our main blog. Thanks again for including us in your review. -Kurt (softypapa)
Kurt- you are so correct.I did enjoy your blog and also the content that you have. Your purpose of doing this blog is also unique. The best part is your style of selling is good. You are not pushing your products like lots of other blogs. I will do a post on your later on. It will be about the products that you have and about the culture that it represent.
I have been to japan before and I will have to say that the japanese culture is so unique and so different to others.
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