There Are Many Reasons We Blog
January 22, 2007
Chris Garret of Performancing poses the big question. Why Do You Blog? There are many reasons that vary from blogger to blogger as to why we blog. Chris writes:
In my experience there are many reasons people blog …
* Personal diary/journal
* I just like writing
* money
* fame/attention
* sales
* get a new job
* make friends/network
* ….
Well, I am going to attempt to answer the question as to why I blog. I have a few blogs and each of them are for a different reason. To clump them all together I find that I blog as an outlet. I blog because I like to write. I blog because I can make some money doing it. I blog to promote my business. And lastly I blog because it is just too damn fun. Why do you blog?
I like your approach to this. One thing I would like to add is, “I blog for the challenge of it.”
Finding time, finding ideas, what to tweak, what to add; are all things that creates quite a challenge.
Challenge is a good one. That is one I didn’t think of thanks.
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