Funny and Viral
I found this blog post by the Amateur Gourmet via the Guy Kawasaki blog.
I emailed it to everyone in the office, just because it is funny and different. Will it make me eat white truffles at Alain Ducasse? Probably not, mostly because it is a long drive and I do not want to eat talking truffles. But it made me read about it, and that is a start.
Lead Generation Resources
Saw this via Kawasaki’s blog today, too. Very interesting and noteworthy. Seems like it took a lot of work.
I think that a problem for a lot of bloggers is that they want to create something noteworthy but at the same time they are afraid to spend so much time on something that may be passed over so quickly in the never-ending rush to the new new new. If you get Dugg, your hard work pays off. If you don’t you may have just spend 6 hours on something that was fun but feels like not the best use of your time. On the other hand, if you spend 6 hours on a single awesome post like that one, maybe you end up on Guy Kawasaki’s blog and people start pointing you out and you gain a whole new audience. Sometimes you have to take that chance and spend that time to craft something really great if you want to get noticed.
If you’re blogging purely for fun, it doesn’t matter either way. But if you’re blogging for business purposes, it’s sometimes difficult to decide how much time to spend on something like that, especially if you’ve done something grandiose in the past and couldn’t get a bite of interest out of the Internet at large.
I agree. I have the same problem with Podcasts. They are great and increase your traffic, but they do take longer.
The Reward for a Job Well Done
Like quite a few other people today, I saw this post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog, pointing to a very well done and interesting post from food blog The Amateur Gourmet.
I saw that the Buzzoodle blog also referenced Kawasaki’s post and I left a co…