Mover Mike

My life changed dramatically after I read Hugh Hewitt's book, Blog as I wrote back in January, 2005 in I'm buzzing...After Reading "BLOG"

I am amazed at the metaphor Hewitt uses, comparing the blog explosion and its effect on the MSM to Martin Luther challenging the supremacy of the Catholic Church with the aid of the Guttenberg press. Imagine in the space of a few short years almost 5,000,000 "newspapers" have been started and we decide, each of us, what story gets top billing each moment.

Today I came across the article Small Biz Blogging Joins The Marketing Mix

Blogging is growing so fast it's hard to get a handle on the numbers. Recently, BusinessWeek estimated that there were nearly 9 million blogs out there, a number that is growing at the rate of a whopping 40,000 per day. Of course, the majority of these are personal, not business-related, but blogging is beginning to catch on in businesses large and small as well. A survey of small business owners by HP earlier this year found that 10 percent have included blogs as part of their marketing plans, with an additional 16 percent planning to invest in blogs over the next three years. Those are interesting stats.

Man, have the numbers changed since Hewitt's book. This article covers a number of areas:
# Business Blogs: Getting More Visitor Traffic
# Small Business Blogging
# 5 Key Questions (You’ve Been Dying) To Ask About Business Blogs
# directory of small business blogs

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