Re: The "Cost" of Blogging

From my post on LinkedInBloggers

Hmmm, I'm not sure I know anyone that actually blogs for the money. I mean, who is the customer, and who would pay, and for what?

Some people blog nonsense, some people blog for personal reasons. I'm not sure why I do it. I don't blog that often, it goes in spurts. When I'm in a creative season, it's easy to blog. When I'm not, I don't. It usually takes me about 20-30 minutes to put out a blog article, and sometimes I can write it on my PDA on my 28 minute train commute in the morning.

Some people blog every day. I can't do that. I won't put out something just to say something or to be on a schedule.

The cost of blogging is some time, and some vulnerability. I think that blogging should reveal your soul: your heart, your mind and your emotion. If it doesn't, just post a website...

In reply to:

"OK you bloggers, you have a number of blogging newbies here. I know I am wondering but I bet I'm not alone. What is the 'cost' of blogging?

Some people like to 'gab'. Others like to write. Others still like to talk.
Some like to talk, write, and listen only if it is about themselves. While these people exist, I do not think we have any here. I get the feeling that the bloggers here do it because it makes them money.

It may well be that 'business blogging' 'always' makes more $ than the 'cost' in time (though I doubt the 'always').

The trouble is, that I imagine blogging to be very time consuming, not so much for the time it actually takes to type in but for the time it takes to create the content. It is rare that I can create content on-the-fly. I need to think about it, write it, re-write it, polish it, ask others to review it, etc.

I imagine that I would have to have considerable content prepared before starting to blog. Sort of like buffering a multi-media download. Once I had my 'buffer', I might have a chance to 'keep up' with the 'streaming'.

I'm sure others feel the same. So, how about telling us how to get started and what we can expect from the process."