Comments on: Predictions for 2007

By: Mark White

Mark White — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:20:35 +0000

Karen, thanks for your comment – blogging has to be taken as part of a comapny’s overall promotional and marketing activity. However, it sounds as though your blogging has been giving good results and producing very positive returne on your time invested. Long may it continue!!

By: Karen Bryan

Karen Bryan — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:51:39 +0000

Blogs are very good for small businesses. I agree that the understanding of business blogs is limited in the UK. I am an independent travel consultant and writer. I started a blog just under 5 months ago, my Google page rank has gone up, site visitors have tripled and bookings have increased. But don’t think it is easy, yes, it is low cost, important for a small business without a large marketing budget. However very time consuming researching and writing posts.

By: Mark White

Mark White — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 14:52:55 +0000

Ted, Possibly statements of fact in the US but here in the UK I think that we are still struggling to catch up with you guys!

Lots of talk about personal blogs in the media here but little about business ones. We’ll keep spreading the word in corporate circles though and I do see this year as a big one for a much better understanding of blogs as a business tool in the UK!

By: Ted Demopoulos

Ted Demopoulos — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:39:56 +0000

Predictions? Some seem like statements of fact
Great list Mark!

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 11:59:22 +0000

Hi Mark!

I still get a lot of people asking me what RSS is and how it works.

Even people coming to my ‘blog seem to get flummoxed from time to time and it’s actually a trickier sell than it seems.

If someone doesn’t know what an RSS feed is, then they don’t know of aggregators or live bookmarks, either.

So you’re left with talking someone through quite a complex set of options just so that they can pin the benefits to something and not just say: “Well, why don’t you just use bookmarks? I understand that!”