Bloggin'

was: Temporary>>font style change?
I hope. Text for site appears to be amost all bold now, in FF at least.Just figured it out. When you cut and paste from stickies, it must copy and paste the embedded (or imagined?) HTML tags, ugh. Which, in an extreme fashion, bloats up the page, and seems to have added in an unclosed strong tag. My first disillusionment with blogging.

Note to self: Consider adding disillusionment category, but then remember the whole Law of attraction thing and cop out. Also, need to custom theme css, and update for tags.

I’ve made this commitment to myself (as this blog isn’t public yet, it remains to myself) to get this business blog on the go.

Steps involved in this process.

1. Switch to hosting company where installing applications is easy peasy. Check
2. Install WordPress and select theme. Check
3. Start typing, about anything to begin with. Check
4. Try to figure out what to blog about. At post # 4 I’m already stumped! Not really, but trying to figure out how to condense the topics I do want to cover – Web 2.0+, Design, clients, SEO, google adwords etc etc into something funny, even cheerful (after all that’s the name of this blog) and that might be useful (gasp) – that’s tough.

It’s gotten to the point where everyone is blogging. And by everyone, I mean a nine year old kid is doing the reviews for Dr. Who on cbc. 9! And, he’s good! This can be intimidating, to say the least.

So, where do I, or you, a prospective blogger over 9, go from here?

LISTS – I’ve noticed a lot of them, on and offline. Browsing through Chapter’s business section (tucked away at the very back of the store oddly enough), I found an abundance of titles that started something like this:

• Top 7 things to …
• Top 10 ways to increase/grow/develop/make
• Top 5 [insert industry here] secrets/strategies

etc. You get the point. This seems to be the way of the “2.0” world – everything condensed down to popularity and in list format. Someone once told me that in an email context, never ask more than 3 questions at a time, as the reader won’t read/answer more than that. I found that quite true, although when the questions are in point form, you can possibly squeeze in a few more.

So, what are my goals – work on my top 10 list of course! Cheers, and have a top 10 day.

This is a sign off I often use on emails, even though I’m not even remotely British*, but Canadian. I thought I’d start naming this blog Cheers as a nod to the light hearted, welcoming tone I’d like this to set.

So, what’s this all about?

They say it takes 29 days to change a habit. This blog will be a testing ground for changing some business habits. That is, how we go about attracting new clients. I’ve made a mental list – soon to be published – which started with establishing a blog for said list.

Step 1 is now accomplished.
*unless you count the Trini connection, when then Empire ruled…but luckily it’s been a long time since independence.