A friends questions about blogging & Twitter
Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 11:01AM A friend of mine is trying to sell his art online. He is a very accomplished painter and like many of us artists, he is trying to gain financial rewards from offering his paintings and prints to potential customers on the Web. I've been helping him as best I can, in the benefits and steps to take in setting up an online presence. He already has a website but he's looking for a way to drive more people to it, aren't we all?
This is one of the latest conversations we've has via e-mail about the purpose of it all.
Dennis,
What's the purpose of blogging? If it's just to make money, why not just blog everyday for people to buy my stuff. If it has some other meaningful purpose, not that making money isn't meaningful, what is it?
Also what's the purpose of Twittering. I don't understand the whole concept of keeping in touch with people you don't know. What's up.
Tom
Tom,
It's a journal, only online. Some people keep them private, others like to share what's going on with as many people as wants to listen. Twitter is the same thing, only shorter snippets. Don't look at either one as talking to people you don't know, although that will undoubtedly be the case in the beginning. Once people read/know you, they'll ask questions, give their opinions and then, become people you DO know.
Or just think about them the same way you think about the crazy guy on the corner talking to, well, no one. He's talking and just because no ones listening doesn't make the fact that he still is talking. It must make him feel good. Either way, figure out what makes you feel good, so blog or not, Twitter or not and remember, no one will ever hear your message (whatever that might be) if you don't put something out there.
dennis