Blogging Pep Talk

From Doug Petch, directing his readers to a post on Rex Hammock's blog, outlining reasons to blog, including:

3. Set up a blog for the same reasons you have a telephone or email: You need a means to join in a conversation.

5. If you run a business, blog because one day, I promise, you will be glad you have a place to respond when the conversation is about you.

A couple of weeks ago, someone who owns a firm that manages phone systems for small businesses told me that he didn't want to start a weblog because he didn't want to "compete" with the 30 million blogs "out there," -- that the level of "discourse" on 30 million couldn't be that high.

I then said to him, "I could apply the same logic and come to the conclusion that I shouldn't have a business telephone. That reasoning would lead me to forego having a telephone because I'm competing with 300 million other "telephoners" and the level of discourse of all those phone conversations can't be that high."