Comments on: What Business Can Learn from Blogging

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:23:43 +0000

Hey SHB is on the board, welcome. See that's the problem. Digital content IS building something. Its just made of bits not atoms. So for instance, you buy books? yes, thats digital content. You buy video games? yes thats digital content. You buy movies, music, etc. all digital content. You by those iPhone apps? I know you do , so yes. You went to college? You paid money with nothing tangible to show for it, I mean nothing physical? Yes and it was worth it , well in my case maybe not You get my point.

I know you use to have an ISP before there was even ISP (way ahead of the curve) You were selling bandwidth, not very “hands on”. Would others have paid you to know what you knew? Yes

The future “factory worker” is one who makes digital content, and yes blogs are included. Those that are “hands on” will be from under developed nations and robots.

For those that dont know SHB is a good friend of mine and I appreciate the conversation.

By: SHB

SHB — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:56:46 +0000

Michael Moore has a new movie coming out. You probably aren't going to like it. but it does touch on some bases, such as making money by doing hard work and building things, etc. You guys build yachts hands on for a living. But blogging doesn't seem to build anything. When it comes to blogging, I usually don't want to hear what somebody else is doing because it might want to be something I am doing.

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:23:43 +0000

I know you use to have an ISP before there was even ISP (way ahead of the curve) You were selling bandwidth, not very “hands on”. Would others have paid you to know what you knew? Yes

The future “factory worker” is one who makes digital content, and yes blogs are included. Those that are “hands on” will be from under developed nations and robots.

For those that dont know SHB is a good friend of mine and I appreciate the conversation.

By: SHB

SHB — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:56:46 +0000

By: joshwilkinson

joshwilkinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:11:25 +0000

Cool. Thanks..I am using Wordpress. We will talk soon

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:01:36 +0000

Sounds great. Yeah I would be happy to give you advice. What “blog style platform” are you using. I would HIGHLY recommend Wordpress. Lets discuss via email, I need to know more about what it is your trying to accomplish. I will email you in the am. Talk later.

By: joshwilkinson

joshwilkinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:40:21 +0000

I have been working on that over the past few days…Uploaded a blog style platform and trying to set it up and reorganize the whole thing now that I have a different mindset. I was playing around with different layouts to accommodate a nice blog area now that I have decided to not run away from the blogging aspect. Any advice, ideas or criticism would be greatly appreciated.

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:26:23 +0000

Not weird, smart. You have to figure this stuff out. It takes time, its hard work and it will pay off. On your site now you need to figure out how to get all of those banner adds to the side column and your main content hire in the middle. When someone goes to your site now, its all ads unless they scroll down. Move all the ads to the right hand column only and get the content above the fold.

By: joshwilkinson

joshwilkinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:14:40 +0000

Thanks, I appreciate the support…I'm spending a lot of time reading up on some of the sites you follow and recommend on twitter. Its weird I am kinda getting into it.

By: Rich Lazzara

Rich Lazzara — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:07:59 +0000

Josh,

Great to hear man! Keep it up. Don't let this stuff intimidate you, just take one thing at a time and learn as much as you can. It's not going away AND it can increase your business. Those most up to speed and utilizing these tools will be the ones who succeed in the future. Leave a post or email me anytime if you have questions.