Will Blogging Change Your Life?

August 18, 2008

Las Vegas Nevada I am always telling people to blog.  I just got this email, and I have permission to republish it.  Congrats Tom!

Hi Ron,

My name is Tom Williams and I had the pleasure of hearing you speak at the Designing Profits, Inc. conference in Las Vegas last year.

On the last day I mentioned to you my partner and I were writing a book and I was excited about using a new blog to help market the book we hoped to publish.  My question to you was when should I start bloging to get the best benefit.  You told me to start right away.  I did.  I have been bloging once a week since September of last year.

Here is the exciting part.  We finished the book in late March of this year and started looking for publishers.  We got a lot of rejections.  Then, on June 30th I received an email from Tad Crawford.  He explained he had been reading my blog about the business of interior design and wondered if I had ever thought about writing a book.  Oh, Mr. Crawford is the publisher of Allworth Press in New York.  In less than a month we had a signed contract for them to publish our book.

I want you to know how important I think your advise was to getting out there and finding a publisher.  I, of course, thought the blog would be useful after we published.  It never crossed my mind a publisher would find us because of it.

Thanks for your advise.  It has made a great difference.  I still blog, by the way.

Sincerely,

Tom Williams, Best Practices Network

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Unexpected things can happen when you start putting yourself out there.  This is not the only story I have like this, just the latest.  Why don’t you have a blog yet?

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2 Responses to “Will Blogging Change Your Life?”

  1. Blog Writer Jobs | Virtual Buzz Assistant on August 19th, 2008 12:12 am

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  2. Ms. Liz on August 21st, 2008 10:23 pm

    That’s an excellent point, one of the most effective marketing methods out there is to create buzz about you and your business first. We always warm up to things when we’ve already heard about them … hey I know them!

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