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Re: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started

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Post by aberkowitz » Tue, Sep 28, 2010, 6:52 AM UTC

adamsmith wrote: post #20

tomjen3 wrote: post #6

This is all good advice except that (as you can see in these comments) I spell like a retarded gold fish and my ideas aren't really that interesting. I very much doubt I am alone in this.

You could try starting with twitter and working your way up to larger texts over time. Particularly as the 140 chars becomes annoying!

Tweeting to get better at blogging is a backwards way to approach the problem. If you want to blog well, you should blog until you can blog well.

Re: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started

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Post by sfgary1 » Tue, Sep 28, 2010, 7:48 AM UTC

Good advice if you can do it. As a not quite starving entrepreneur I hardly have time to keep up with my life than to write a blog. I did take this advice a while back and kept a dedicated WP blog for a couple of months but like any startup it needs continuous care and handling. Then building an audience takes time, you have to comment on other blogs and hope they swing by and be sociable. With hundreds of millions of blogs, Twitter and FB pages out there you start to wonder if anyone at all will come.

Re: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started

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Post by known » Tue, Sep 28, 2010, 8:08 AM UTC

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." --Oscar Wilde

Re: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and Tips To Get Started

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Post by bstrong » Wed, Sep 29, 2010, 4:30 PM UTC

aberkowitz wrote: post #21

adamsmith wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could try starting with twitter and working your way up to larger texts over time. Particularly as the 140 chars becomes annoying!

Tweeting to get better at blogging is a backwards way to approach the problem. If you want to blog well, you should blog until you can blog well.

I don't know about that. A big part of what holds me back from blogging (and I suspect others as well) is stage fright about putting my ideas out in public. Tweeting is a low friction way to get over that.

I would also add becoming a more active commenter as another way to get in the habit of writing in public (something I've been working on lately).