Comments on: Business blogs must serve a purpose http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:21:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Adrian Deal http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-3 Adrian Deal Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:43:35 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-3 The Patanjali quote gives me goosebumps! And I love the questions you encourage us to ask: “Why am I willing to invest my time, energy, and creativity to this endeavor?” and “What purpose(s) can blogging help me/my business fulfill?” Thank you Shonnie! Adrian The Patanjali quote gives me goosebumps!

And I love the questions you encourage us to ask: “Why am I willing to invest my time, energy, and creativity to this endeavor?” and “What purpose(s) can blogging help me/my business fulfill?”

Thank you Shonnie!

Adrian

]]> By: Shonnie http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-5 Shonnie Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:56:30 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-5 Great quotes are so awesome! I'm glad you're finding the questions useful. Sharing some of your answers may be helpful to others, so feel free to do so if you're willing. Great quotes are so awesome! I’m glad you’re finding the questions useful. Sharing some of your answers may be helpful to others, so feel free to do so if you’re willing.

]]> By: Adrian http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-11 Adrian Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:40:37 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-11 Okay, here are some of my purposes for having a blog: Build credibility Build community among my seminar participants and customers Develop content for books / e-books / tips booklets Entice people to purchase my products and attend my seminars Have a way to get useful feedback from my customers on how to improve my product & seminar offerings I'm also considering having my blog BE my website -- though it might be that I have too many pages that need to be "static" for that to work -- at any rate, I want a website and/or blog with these qualities: Professional and "clean," but infused with my personality Attracting tons of visitors and converting a huge percentage of those into buying customers Easily managed and edited Inexpensive to run Multimedia: written words, audio and video clips (why? to engage people's brains in different ways; to appeal to people with different learning styles) My "bigger, deeper whys": I envision having a business that is fun and easy to run (especially as it's getting bigger), receiving infinitely huge amounts of money-energy into my life, and doing / creating offerings to the world that feel joyful to me. The biggest outcome for my life is to live a life I love; feeling full of joy, gratitude, abundance, ease, and vibrancy. Does that answer all of our questions? :-) Adrian Okay, here are some of my purposes for having a blog:

Build credibility
Build community among my seminar participants and customers
Develop content for books / e-books / tips booklets
Entice people to purchase my products and attend my seminars
Have a way to get useful feedback from my customers on how to improve my product & seminar offerings

I’m also considering having my blog BE my website — though it might be that I have too many pages that need to be “static” for that to work — at any rate, I want a website and/or blog with these qualities:

Professional and “clean,” but infused with my personality
Attracting tons of visitors and converting a huge percentage of those into buying customers
Easily managed and edited
Inexpensive to run
Multimedia: written words, audio and video clips (why? to engage people’s brains in different ways; to appeal to people with different learning styles)

My “bigger, deeper whys”:

I envision having a business that is fun and easy to run (especially as it’s getting bigger), receiving infinitely huge amounts of money-energy into my life, and doing / creating offerings to the world that feel joyful to me. The biggest outcome for my life is to live a life I love; feeling full of joy, gratitude, abundance, ease, and vibrancy.

Does that answer all of our questions?
:-)
Adrian

]]> By: Shonnie http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-17 Shonnie Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:20:03 +0000 http://shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/04/04/business-blogs-must-serve-a-purpose/#comment-17 "Does it answer the questions for you?" is the real issue. I think you've done a stellar job. If you "feel" these "whys" when you read them, you've got it! Thanks for sharing and giving sparks of inspiration to the rest of us. Gold star!! “Does it answer the questions for you?” is the real issue. I think you’ve done a stellar job. If you “feel” these “whys” when you read them, you’ve got it! Thanks for sharing and giving sparks of inspiration to the rest of us.

Gold star!!

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