Why I Finally Started to Blog

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After seven years, I finally decided it was time to refresh my own website and start a blog.  I’ve suffered a bit from the “cobbler’s children” syndrome, where I’ve launched nearly a dozen websites for various companies, written and ghost-written blogs for clients, and guest blogged here and here, but thoughtfully neglected my own web presence.  

I say thoughtfully because it is not as if the interest in blogging has not been on my radar.  However, in an effort to maintain my work-life balance and focus my work time on my clients (they do pay the bills after all), I decided to focus building my personal brand through Twitter, LinkedIn, and maintain personal profiles on various social outposts including Facebook, YouTube, Goodreads, and private networks.  I even wrote a personal blog for a while for moms in Rhode Island.

The lack of professional blogging hasn’t affected my business at all because frankly, my business has always come from my personal network and referrals.  However, the tide has started to change.  I recently received a request for proposal from a comment I posted on the O’Reilly blog nine months prior, while other inbound inquiries have come from Google searches, and recent publicity in WebWorkerDaily, CIO Magazine, Mobile Entertainment, and Mobile Marketer.  I realize now that more and more, peoples’ first impression of me is going to be my website and therefore, a blog went from a nice-to-have to a must-have.

So THANK YOU for joining me here.  You won’t find me posting just to post, but I do hope to maintain a weekly publishing schedule.  I encourage you to subscribe, but even more, I’d love for you to comment and tell me what you think.

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