[stylist] Info on Sites

[cheryl echevarria]

Good morning Neil:

Well it is also how you advertise it.

I constantly put my link when I post something on twitter so who ever is 
interested can go there an find out more information, I was asking the 
question if I should use the blog also in my newsletter to which the last 2 
months I have been using it have links in it to let my listeners know that 
it is available, and that they don't have to go to the site that they will 
get e-mailed updates once the subscribe, unfortunately, the statistics for 
the blog I am using through godaddy, and maybe in the future I will change 
to another service but at the present I am happy with them.  They let me 
know from what kind of computer system is reading it, like XP or other like 
an Iphone is reading it.  It doesn't give me the name or e-mail of the 
people reading unless they post a comment to it.

I am mostly educating and hopefully someone will like what I am offering and 
they will contact me  and buy.

For me it is working for others is may not.

Cheryl Echevarria
Independent Travel Consultant
http://Echevarriatravel.com
1-866-580-5574

http://blog.echevarriatravel.com
Reservations at echevarriatravel.com
Affiliated as an Independent Contractor with Montrose Travel CST-1018299-10


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Butters" <neil.butters at sympatico.ca>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 8:15 PM
Subject: [stylist] Info on Sites


> Hello All,
>
> I am a little late with a response to Judith's post concerning the 
> usefulness of social networking and blogs. In my experience, blogs are 
> useless for networking.
>
> I wrote a blog for over a year and averaged maybe 2 or 3 visitors a week. 
> I never received comments. I didn't get any jobs or meet anyone. I 
> "advertised" the blog on several directories, but I don't have a Facebook 
> page, so that was the extent of my advertising. Working against me as well 
> was the topic: pharmacology and toxicology (although I wrote it for a 
> general audience).
>
> I think there are very few blog success stories relative to the number of 
> blogs. I think popularity and usefulness are dependent on many factors, 
> such as topic, promotion, SEO, etc.
>
> I also question the usefulness of blogs as writing samples because they 
> are self-published, and are therefore not subject to critique or the 
> challenges of being good enough for publication.
>
> Neil
>
>
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