Comments on: Your Blog Is Your Business, A Rant On The Effective Use of Tools http://booksquare.com/your-blog-is-your-business-a-rant-on-the-effective-use-of-tools/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Booksquare http://booksquare.com/your-blog-is-your-business-a-rant-on-the-effective-use-of-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-59811 Booksquare Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:50:59 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/04/10/1216/#comment-59811 Yes, Ray's blog is excellent (http://www.floggingthequill.com/) -- I'm sorry I only had room for a few examples (in the print article). And you make a good point regarding the limited number of posts allowed on PM. A mirror blog is critical, especially when your archives are vital to your business, however you define it. Yes, Ray’s blog is excellent (http://www.floggingthequill.com/) — I’m sorry I only had room for a few examples (in the print article). And you make a good point regarding the limited number of posts allowed on PM. A mirror blog is critical, especially when your archives are vital to your business, however you define it.

]]> By: Ray Rhamey http://booksquare.com/your-blog-is-your-business-a-rant-on-the-effective-use-of-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-59758 Ray Rhamey Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:54:37 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/04/10/1216/#comment-59758 Good post. A note on the Publishers Marketplace venue for blogging: I started there, but soon had to open a "mirror" blog (on Typepad) because of PM's limit on posts--you can have only 5 current and 2 archived posts. After that, you have to delete something if you want to post. Since I thought archived articles were vital for the business-building aspect of my blog (Flogging the Quill, another blog with focus: storytelling from an author/editor's point of view), I made the move to acquiring a domain name and starting a secondary blog that would hold all my posts. But PM is still my base for the reason you mention--high traffic by writers, editors, and agents. And I've been mentioned in Michael Cader's newsletter, too--primarily, I suspect, because I put up a post on how to use PM to dig for the right agents to query, and he stood to gain $$ for everyone who tried it. He is, however, a friendly guy who is responsive to emails, and doing a heckuva job with PM. Best, Ray Good post. A note on the Publishers Marketplace venue for blogging: I started there, but soon had to open a “mirror” blog (on Typepad) because of PM’s limit on posts–you can have only 5 current and 2 archived posts. After that, you have to delete something if you want to post.

Since I thought archived articles were vital for the business-building aspect of my blog (Flogging the Quill, another blog with focus: storytelling from an author/editor’s point of view), I made the move to acquiring a domain name and starting a secondary blog that would hold all my posts.

But PM is still my base for the reason you mention–high traffic by writers, editors, and agents. And I’ve been mentioned in Michael Cader’s newsletter, too–primarily, I suspect, because I put up a post on how to use PM to dig for the right agents to query, and he stood to gain $$ for everyone who tried it. He is, however, a friendly guy who is responsive to emails, and doing a heckuva job with PM.

Best,

Ray

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