Paul Stopped Blogging Today

Posted by Paul Colligan on Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Updated: Lots of commentary below, and at Google Plus and at Facebook. Participate in the conversation whenever and wherever you want.

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  • http://www.learnsmallbusiness.com/ DeAnna Troupe

    I really don’t agree with using this strategy. I think you should keep posting here and use the social media sites to push people here. Oh well. I wish you the best of luck.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pinnacleservice Michelle Lawther Fradella Barf

    I like the approach.  Interested to see how it will work out!

  • http://www.facebook.com/pinnacleservice Michelle Lawther Fradella Barf

    Last name is BarFUSS, btw.  LOL  Stupid app cut off my last name. ;)

  • http://www.facebook.com/rebecca.geiger Rebecca Geiger

    I love the idea! I think you are onto something and after listening to you about youtube from Video Boss.. I think you are brilliant and THIS is going to rock.. especially taking into the fact that people more and more (including me) use their phones/ipads for so much that it is frustrating to go to a website on (because people don’t have their sites optimized for that)… Thanks for the Audio Boo tip too! WAY cool!

  • lawton chiles

    paul do you just auto–post this content to Google Plus, FB, etc…with a plugin? thanks. 

  • Anonymous

    DeAnna, instead of just saying you don’t agree – give a reason why. I will reach more people in the social networks than I will my blog. As a result, time spent on my blog is time spent not reaching people. It really isn’t that complicated.

    I know everyone wants to have something they own and control but look at what happens if you give that up.

    Just sayin’

  • Anonymous

    I am interested as well.

  • Anonymous

    Good to know.

  • Anonymous

    Why start with the place with the smallest audience? Why not start with the place with the biggest?

  • Anonymous

    You are welome. I hope it does more than rock – I hope it frees up people to actually stop working on the stuff that isn’t as powerful for the stuff that it.

  • Bruce

    Paul I hear you, especially for those of us who are independent and self employed we do so many different things, often in very different markets with very different customers. Trying to write about them and make some sense of them is quite the challenge. Trying to push one over the other is difficult as we never know which market will be successful today, Tomorrow is a different one. Managing the band width, all these different platforms, channel confusion, weeeee, it is an effort. I am going to head over to Google+ and see how you are doing it.

  • http://onlinemarketinginstitut.com/ Detlev Tesch

    Well, now this is such an interesting move. I remember you fervently advotacing the “own your content and don’t be at the mercy of any third party site” approach.
    Gonna be exciting to observe the development.

  • http://twitter.com/christinahills Christina Hills

    Paul,

    Great title for a blog post!  Love the audio boo.
    I too have been seeing a decrease in activity on my blog.  Folks are just not going to blogs, they are hanging out in social media now.
    For those of us who who use WordPress, the task now is to integrate the social media commenting into our sites. 

    You can see an example of that here:
    http://websitecreationworkshop.com/a/?af=326215&p=vvid1

  • lawton chiles

    So you start with Facebook? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=621927797 Clifford Ball

     I would imagine there is some method to post to your blog and then post an excerpt of that with a linkback all automatically.  Why should Facebook get all of the eyeballs and monetization? I think specialized blogs like Macrumors, Engadget or LifeHacker are doing just fine.

  • Guest

    People don’t go to your blog because the charade is over.

  • Anonymous

    I’ll be curious to hear your thoughts.

  • Anonymous

    I still own my own content and I’m not at the mercy of any third party site with this strategy.

  • Anonymous

    Well, using WordPress and Blogging are two different things. PaulColligan.com will continue to run on WordPress – and you’ll be reading this comment there – but I’ve stopped “Blogging” – i.e., original content originating here because I want “control.”

  • Anonymous

    You don’t start any one specific place. You got wherever makes sense.

  • Anonymous

    Last point first – my business model (selling CPM ads) is not the same as these guys but … I read all three of these guys religiously and haven’t visited any of their sites in months.

    Yes, i could “start” with my blog and crosspost wherever I want. This means I’d start with the place with the lowest bang for the buck. Why do that?

  • Anonymous

    I could interpret this one a thousand different ways – so won’t even try.

  • http://twitter.com/douglaslampi Doug Lampi

    I agree with you. 

    And I promote a similar strategy for my clients, encouraging them to create incentives and promotions that engage customers to share their experience on social media – then capture all the action on the social media and create a blog post about it.  Email, tweet and promote the new stories on the Blog, where you encourage people to tweet, like and share the story. 

  • Anonymous

    Paul, as you are social explorer, my best wishes for this experiment however it turns out. 
    As I understand it, you are going to disseminate content on various platforms wherever it makes most sense.
    Now, what’s the new role of your main site?
    Are you going to post links to all the other social streams that host your media and news?
    What’s the one link that will identify your brand? 
    If SEO is a key consideration, then why not transfer your blog onto Google Plus?Thanks for your insights!

  • Anonymous

    Role of the main site is to bring all together into one simple place.

    Post links to the other streams – of course I will.

    The one link is – http://www.PaulColligan.com

    SEO is not the key consideration. No reason to redirect – PaulColligan.com is about me, not Google.

  • Anonymous

    I have at least one friend here ;-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/richardbravo Richard Bravo

    From my experience it is daunting to keep up with all the platforms and still provide value. I have a lot of “blogs” out there, aka WordPress hubs, that cater to various niche markets. We syndicate to targeted social platforms where our audience is.

    The issue always on my mind is that while the original content is valuable, what degree of blowback comes from overlapping audience experience, even though the intent is to draw their attention back to the blog? If a “fan” is connected on G+, Twitter, Facebook, etc., do they get tired of seeing the same message on all locations, or does the saturation entrench the brand/message that much deeper on a positive level?

    I know that I personally spend very little time on blogs per say, other than for research purposes when a blog shows up in the search results for what I’m looking for. Im also a visual learner so Youtube is hands down my go to place for almost everything.

    Otherwise I’m on facebook and forums talking to people and for all intents and purposes “blogging” there.

    It will be interesting to see your results Paul.
    Please do post frequent updates, it’s a great social experiment.
    Hopefully you can pull off better results than Ryan did ;]

  • Anonymous

    Always experimenting – always fun …

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