http://blog.nullvariable.com/2009/05/aiming-wrong-target/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aiming-wrong-target The musings of the Nullvariable Web Consulting Team. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.nullvariable.com/2009/05/aiming-wrong-target/comment-page-1/#comment-298 Freddy J. Nager Sun, 31 May 2009 01:27:52 +0000 http://blog.nullvariable.com/?p=382#comment-298 You're completely right, Doug. Too many people get the misconception that if they start blogging, before you can say "Arianna Huffington," the advertisers will come pounding on their doors offering to plaster their blogs with banners, or book publishers will ring at all hours offering them seven-figure deals for their life stories. The odds of that happening are about as good as the odds of a chess club champ winning the heart of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. The more likely scenario, as you mentioned, is that the blog attracts the notice of a business person who likes what they've written, and hires the blogger for a small project to start. And you know, in this economy, that's not such a bad thing. You’re completely right, Doug. Too many people get the misconception that if they start blogging, before you can say “Arianna Huffington,” the advertisers will come pounding on their doors offering to plaster their blogs with banners, or book publishers will ring at all hours offering them seven-figure deals for their life stories. The odds of that happening are about as good as the odds of a chess club champ winning the heart of a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. The more likely scenario, as you mentioned, is that the blog attracts the notice of a business person who likes what they’ve written, and hires the blogger for a small project to start. And you know, in this economy, that’s not such a bad thing.

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