I Love Blogging...Let Me Count the Ways

In celebration of Valentine's Day, the folks at TypePad.com have put out a challenge (invitation) for you to share why you love blogging. Since I'm an avid business blogger and use TypePad for most of my blogs and set up TypePad blogs for clients, I figure I better join the party!

I Love Blogging...Let Me Count the Ways (in no particular order of importance)

1. Blogging changed my life...
   
2. Blogging allows me to instantly and easily publish my content on the web
3. Blogging helps me connect with amazing people
4. Blogging has helped me become more findable and visible to my ideal clients
5. Blogging created a new business for me with Patsi
6. Blogging has generated invitations to speak at conferences, contribute to books, participate in joint venture opportunities, create new products, travel and connect
7. Blogging has revealed my inner extrovert
8. Blogging has helped me become a better writer
9. Blogging helps remove barriers when meeting online friends in person
10. Blogging has helped keep me motivated to lose weight and keep fit (my personal blog)
11. Blogging lets me take advantage of my natural love of research and active experimentation
12. My blogging community has helped me raise money for causes I care passionately about...you are the best!
13. ...I'm sure there's more so I may add new thoughts as they come to me in the next couple of days.

Part of the game is to tag 5 bloggers and invite them to play and share why they love blogging. In addition to the 5 I'm tagging, I invite you to share here in the comments section or on your own blog why you love blogging! And send me the link if you post on your own blog. (You can get the "official" guidelines here.)

I tag:

Patsi Krakoff - Writing on the Web
Michael Martine - Remarkablogger
John Trosko - OrganizingLA
Paul Chaney - Conversational Media Marketing (Paul is one of my early blogging inspirations - read his blog!)
Liz Strauss - Successful-Blog

Comments

[dr-patsi]

Luv this list! Great stuff. Here's my post:

http://www.coachezines.com/2009/02/why-i-love-blogging-still-after-all-these-years.html#more

[NJ]

Wow what a Great List- You have some great resources for bloggers. I Will be Back-
Here are the reasons I love blogging at Neck Pain Support Blog: http://www.neckpainsupport.com/2009/02/why-we-love-blogging-at-the-neck-pain-support-blog.html

- NJ

[Denise Wakeman]

NJ, I love your blog post on why you love blogging. Thanks for sharing the link.

Question: do you find that having a blog attracts new patients for you?

We worked with a chiro in SF and he says most of his new patients come as a result of his blog: http://www.sfbackpaindoctor.com/

[NJ]

Hi Denise,
Yes, I am aware of Dr.Davis' Blog- He does Non Surgical Spinal decompression
in his office and we do the same in our Central Connecticut office. We have
a blog: http://www.ctspinedisc.blogspot.com that we are working on
constantly and yes once in a while we do get patients as a result of this. I
am working on posting to this more regularly and adding new widgets to get
more visitors. I am on blogger on right now for this, but perhaps will move
to typepad because it has more capabilities in the future.

For my blog www.neckpainsupport.com i am concentrating on my pain relief
products website www.arc4life.com- for which we have had reasonable success
with. But off course, I am always looking for more techniques and making my
blog the best that it can be.

I have subscribed to your feeds because I think you have some awesome info-
I recently just read about having an amazon profile to establish that you
are an authority on certain topics. Thank you for your valuable resources
Denise.

NJ

[Boris Mahovac - Email Marketing Coach]

Hi Denise,

That's a really great list. I can't say blogging changed my life, but the rest pretty much applies :-)

I posted my list here: http://www.yourezinecoach.com/2009/why-i-love-blogging-for-business-and-fun.html

[Denise Wakeman]

Thanks for sharing your "why I love blogging" link, Boris. You make a lot of great points why all businesses and professionals ought to be blogging.

[Becca]

I could probably add 20 more things to your list, but maybe the most important one I'd like to add is the fact that blogging is prevailing in this horrible economy. If you look at the latest stats, blogging jobs are steadily on the rise. That's encouraging, at least to me. It's nice to have a skill that is so in demand when everything else is in a down turn.

[Paul Gardner]

I love the internet marketing business. As relationships develop business grows.
Blogging is an esential part of any traditional busines or on line business. I enjoyed reading your blog on why you love blogging. All of your thoughts on what blogging has dne for your are very informative.