Why the blog?

Funny, I develop websites all day every day (nearly). I have been involved in the tourism industry and help people with their marketing, essentially around the Internet. I maintain (not nearly well enough) a few “volunteer(ed)” regional sites.

As you can see in a previous post I had, for ages our ‘corporate’ site, on www. froling.com.au. Firstly, I didn’t like its look and feel, it was a packaged theme done by someone a million miles away (yes I admit it, I was too busy doing other peoples sites). Secondly it had boring crap on it, stuff that no-one was really interested in, certainly not me. It had a few, well quite a few, thumbnails & descriptions of sites that I’d built over the years, on a portfolio page that I could send prospective clients to, though that was fairly out of date.

So, where am I heading with this?

I have quite a few clients that I support over the phone and by email often repeating similar answers to different people. However all the answers are out there, it is the web put together by people just like me and them. But sometimes it just nicer to ask someone you know.

As well we have the endless parade of marketing/business gurus that provide advice to our regional tourism and business operators saying. “You need a blog”, Get Online!”,  “You need a blog”, “Get Online!”, “You need a blog”, “Get Online!”, “You need a blog”, “You need a…..” Get the idea?

Eventually some, those who swore black and blue that they didn’t need a blog, called me up and said, “I need a blog”. Ha ha! (Ha! looks and sounds better than lol)

I got “Be my fwend” requests from people that have themselves studiously and stubbornly avoided the call to social networking (the online sort anyway).

Much of this has happened over the last few days.

Onwards McDuff!

So I killed www.froling.com.au, some might groan at the lost traffic; ah it was only a few hundred a month and they probably didn’t want to be there anyway. Bit empowering though, like cleaning out the wardrobe or shed or spare room. My wife has a list…

Then I set up this BLOG. A new start, how invigorating!

I’ll talk about the technology later. Just because it’s what I talk to people about when they first come to me and say “I think I need a website”. After I ask them “Why the hell would you?” and establish that it might be a good idea….