Do I believe your blog only requires twenty minutes a week spending on it?

NO.

Do I believe blogs are about gaining #1 positions on search engines?

NO.

Do I believe you need to spend a couple of hundred dollars on a ’special report’ to find out about blogging?

NO.

Having completed one of the longest interviews on record for the subscription only site Secrets to their Success I thought I’d use this blog post to set the record straight about a thing or two.

I tend not to turn any interview down, whether it’s student researching a paper or the mainstream media. However, I’m not always a fan of being used to endorse somebody else’s agenda or product. In the case of this particular interview I’ve been used to plug their report on blogging. Now it may very well be an astonishingly good report, but for one thing I haven’t read it and for another I can assure you that all the information you need about business blogging is available for FREE on hundreds of business and marketing blogs already. (Note to self: Stop being so wet behind ears.)

One of the first I’d recommend for a brilliant basic background to corporate blogging is CorporateBlogging.Info.

To understand (or not as the case may be) the ethics and values behind business blogging as I see them you can always trot over to Blog Core Values.

And then you can allow yourself to wander from these two blogs and see where it takes you.

Also, seeming the interview is subscription only, I thought I’d let you read the unedited version - warts and all.

First round of interview questions.
Second round of interview questions.

I’m not trying to say that it’s ‘my way or the highway’. However, if you have a question about blogging you’re more than welcome to contact me personally or leave a comment.

Let the conversation commence……..