I currently sell handmade jewellery and accessories online and wondered whether I should add a blog to my website. Is it a useful tool in terms of marketing or are they pointless? Does anyone actually read them?
Thanks
4 Responses to Website Blogs – Are They Worth The Effort?
Etsy is good. I bought personalised pants off them….
(Irrelevant)
Website blogs are pointless. Noone really reads them. Unless, of course, you have a stalker.
Lets face it, do you really care what Sarah from Texas has been up to this week?
Do you even KNOW Sarah from Texas? (:
Exactly.
Put your stuff on Etsy instead. It’s a community for people to sell handmade goods, and it’s huge. Like eBay for craftsters. I’m genuine, not spamming. Take a look: http://www.etsy.com
Most blogs, esp. of the amateur kind are pretty usesless. Mainly it is blogman or blogwoman running off at the mouth and most of it is useless crap based upon their own narrow opinion and belief sys.
Blogs which are managed by professional journalists on the other hand are really something else. You’d be surprised how many quality journalists have their own blogs.
Try these links for a sample of what I call high quality blog-journalism : . . .
News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Podcast: Matthew Parris’s audio …
Sep 21, 2007 … Podcast: Matthew Parris’s audio sketch … This blog is used to supplement our
news coverage online, especially when we want to cover a live … http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2007/0… – Cached
News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Twofer with Matthew Parris from …
Enhanced news coverage from the timesonline.co.uk Subscribe to a feed of this
Times Online blog at http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/rss.xm…http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2007/0… – Cached
Iain Dale’s Diary: Matthew Parris’s 10 Reasons Gordon Brown Won’t …
Matthew Parris demonstrates again in this morning’s Times why he is Britain’s
best political columnist. He believes that Alan Johnson will succeed Tony … http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2006/06/mat… – Cached
Iain Dale’s Diary: Matthew Parris On Form
Dec 1, 2007 … As several readers have pointed out, Matthew Parris’s Times column today is a
corker. Read it HERE. And even better than that, … http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/12/mat…
The average citzen joe or joan simply does not have the high quality of English which educated professional journalists have. They’re not called word-smiths for nothing.
So, if you want a blog on your site go ahead, but you might be better to simply add a link to someone like Matthew Parris – Times Columnist
While it is true that in a democracy everyone has the right to speak and write what they like, most people simply ain’t that interested. What most people want are professional journalists, the modern day equivalent of the Athenian orators who plied their trade outside the Assembly at Athens all those years ago in the Golden Age of Greece.
Got to get back to that somehow.
I’ve listened to such as the late Bertrand Russell in Trafalgar Square – the man was just brilliant. Go to the pub and what you get is not the same – same thing with blogs.
Put your stuff on Ebay instead. It’s a community for people to sell goods, and it’s huge.
Etsy is good. I bought personalised pants off them….
(Irrelevant)
Website blogs are pointless. Noone really reads them. Unless, of course, you have a stalker.
Lets face it, do you really care what Sarah from Texas has been up to this week?
Do you even KNOW Sarah from Texas? (:
Exactly.
Put your stuff on Etsy instead. It’s a community for people to sell handmade goods, and it’s huge. Like eBay for craftsters. I’m genuine, not spamming. Take a look: http://www.etsy.com
Most blogs, esp. of the amateur kind are pretty usesless. Mainly it is blogman or blogwoman running off at the mouth and most of it is useless crap based upon their own narrow opinion and belief sys.
Blogs which are managed by professional journalists on the other hand are really something else. You’d be surprised how many quality journalists have their own blogs.
Try these links for a sample of what I call high quality blog-journalism : . . .
News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Podcast: Matthew Parris’s audio …
Sep 21, 2007 … Podcast: Matthew Parris’s audio sketch … This blog is used to supplement our
news coverage online, especially when we want to cover a live … http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2007/0… – Cached
News Blog – Times Online – WBLG: Twofer with Matthew Parris from …
Enhanced news coverage from the timesonline.co.uk Subscribe to a feed of this
Times Online blog at http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/rss.xm… http://timesnews.typepad.com/news/2007/0… – Cached
Iain Dale’s Diary: Matthew Parris’s 10 Reasons Gordon Brown Won’t …
Matthew Parris demonstrates again in this morning’s Times why he is Britain’s
best political columnist. He believes that Alan Johnson will succeed Tony … http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2006/06/mat… – Cached
Iain Dale’s Diary: Matthew Parris On Form
Dec 1, 2007 … As several readers have pointed out, Matthew Parris’s Times column today is a
corker. Read it HERE. And even better than that, … http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2007/12/mat…
The average citzen joe or joan simply does not have the high quality of English which educated professional journalists have. They’re not called word-smiths for nothing.
So, if you want a blog on your site go ahead, but you might be better to simply add a link to someone like Matthew Parris – Times Columnist
While it is true that in a democracy everyone has the right to speak and write what they like, most people simply ain’t that interested. What most people want are professional journalists, the modern day equivalent of the Athenian orators who plied their trade outside the Assembly at Athens all those years ago in the Golden Age of Greece.
Got to get back to that somehow.
I’ve listened to such as the late Bertrand Russell in Trafalgar Square – the man was just brilliant. Go to the pub and what you get is not the same – same thing with blogs.