While attending a Science of Getting Rich seminar in Mesa, Arizona, I first heard the song “If I Were Brave”, by Jana Stanfield. Leslie Householder, who conducted the seminar, had it playing as we walked into the hotel conference room in the morning.

Since then, my husband has started every work day listening to “If I Were Brave”. (My husband was brave enough to leave corporate America to pursue his dreams.)

If you have ever seen the movie or read the story Sarah, Plain and Tall, you know that Sarah answered an advertisement for a mail order bride in the hopes of making a difference in the lives of two young children whose mother had died. When times were hard, she stayed so that she could “make a difference”.

I found the following article comparing blogging to feeding a family. The author compared writing articles to cooking the meal and the tedious promotional work to cleaning up after the meal. 

Aren’t you glad our software keeps us from having to do all of the tedious stuff?!?!? 

I’m new to blogging, and it occurs to me that it’s kinda like having to cook a meal for your family every day. You’ve pretty much got to do it everyday. It’s got to be something different or people get bored. With a blog, just like a meal, you’ve got to assemble all the ingredients up front; a topic, some facts, then double checking the facts, some images, and some links. Then you can get down to work, and start cooking up all these parts; getting the text, links, tags and keywords all squared away.

But maybe you have an accident. In a kitchen you might knock a pot of food off a table. And that analogy corresponds to something I’ve done with the blog; I might start an article and leave the window to my Wordpress post open. Then hours later come back, and maybe I’ve cleared my cookies, so when I go to the post to “Save” I get a prompt to “login” instead. LOOSING my article! So yeah, sometimes I have to skip a day. If you’re sticking with our meal analogy then in this case we’ll say “the family can get take-out tonight.” And you can take that time away with your blog too. But, sooner rather than later, you gotta get back to it!

But when you finally get the meal out to the family, or the blog all written and published, well its not over yet. With a meal you’d still have the dishes and kitchen clean up to face (possibly followed by taking out the garbage). Basically, the crappy part. And with the blog, after you publish a post you’ve got some crap work ahead of you too. First you’ve got to get out there and PING. So it’s off to Feedburner and/or Digg, Technorati and whichever else you think will generate some visitors and RSS subscribers. Then it’s off to bend and stretch some ongoing topic so you can make acceptably relevant comments on OTHER people’s blogs. And just like watching to see if the family looks full and content after they’ve eaten, I go out and start reading my stats to see how effective my work has been.

And then there’s tomorrow. What’s on the menu now?

David T Rosenthal. Chicago native, lived in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. Graduated Columbia University. Did film/tv acting. Studied Bujinkan Taijutsu. Comic book and movie fan. Renovating my home.

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It is an idea whose time has finally come - a blogging community for women who want to market online, but aren’t sure how. Think of the upcoming Connecting with Women blogging community as more like a training co-op than your traditional social networking or blogging community.

Connecting with Women members will have access to mentors who will train them in online marketing skills. The network will feature conference calls and trainings by experts like Scott Allen, co-author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online and a contributing author to several others, including Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business and Culture.

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The Connecting with Women network members will use the power of Blog i360 technology to drive traffic to their respective blogs. This will not only save members time and energy, but also help the novice get more traffic.

Another unique feature to Connecting with Women community is topic exclusivity. There will be only one blog per topic in this network. (Some of the topics already reserved include genealogy, sewing tips, vegan cooking, essential oil use, poetry, quilting, herbal healing, acrylic nail design, and massage therapy.)

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