Comments on: #FollowFriday: Paul Roberts

By: PaulRobertsPAR

PaulRobertsPAR — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:15:27 +0000

@Andrea T.H.W. Thank you for taking the time to comment. ‘who can say Paul is wrong’ well, let me introduce you to my kids. They tell me all the time.

By: PaulRobertsPAR

PaulRobertsPAR — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:13:06 +0000

@GeoffReiner Thanks for taking the time to read and to comment here. Good first impression by the way. Happy to connect with you.

By: PaulRobertsPAR

PaulRobertsPAR — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:11:50 +0000

@annedreshfield Thanks for the nice comment. I appreciate it and the follow too. Nice to meet you.

By: rdopping

rdopping — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 10:24:52 +0000

@RebeccaTodd Damn! Me too! I would love to see that Powerpoint.

By: Andrea T.H.W.

Andrea T.H.W. — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 06:16:27 +0000

Well, who can say Paul is wrong? Blogging sucks an enormous amount of time, unless someone uses Fiverr everyday, then to be successful you must be very active on social media, and this sucks an even bigger amount of time; in general revenues are risible and you turn around and see that real life has more or less disappeared. Sometimes it seems some kind of MLM.

But as a way to drive power and leads to a brand or a business it surely can work. Not that much as a business in itself unless someone teaches how to make money blogging. Clearly, generalizing a lot and joking a bit.

Plus let’s not forget that in the case you get hit by a borderline search engine all your efforts vanish, the same if for a reason or another your Twitter account gets shut down. A blogger is forced to rely too much on external sources especially now when someone who thinks he’s the God of the net tells you how you have to run your blog, every year in a different way: publish everyday, don’t publish too often, get backlinks, don’t have too many backlinks, put ads above the fold, don’t have ads above the fold, …….

Not that I’m going to quit blogging but I’ve already cut in two the time I stay online and I’ll stick to my decision to reach 100 good posts and then stop and move on. Otherwise it becomes a kind of self-inflicted slavery.

Having to write every week for the rest of your life seems like a nightmare instead of a pleasure. And if everything stops because there isn’t new content added every day or week then it’s a kind of a castle made with cards. Not that good.

Imho obviously.

Have a great weekend!

By: Steveology

Steveology — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:54:02 +0000

@paulrobertspar Ha!

By: TheJackB

TheJackB — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 22:16:13 +0000

@ginidietrich @HowieSPM
Good old Groupon, I remember when…

By: GeoffReiner

GeoffReiner — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:58:03 +0000

@ginidietrich
As long as my mom being wrong stays between the two of us I’m okay with that! Thanks and happy Friday

By: ginidietrich

ginidietrich — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:49:20 +0000

@HowieSPM He’s quitting Facebook with you. Oh wait.

By: ginidietrich

ginidietrich — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:49:06 +0000

@TheJackB @HowieSPM Groupon. Sigh..