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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about)

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable

Blogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is going on in the world, peeling back layers of the old world in which media was too scripted.

By definition, if you are reading this you read blogs. But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Absolutely.

This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about.

1. Why If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this.

People often ask me why I started blogging. It really started simply enough. I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. I was having the same conversations over-and-over again (JFDI, Don’t Roll Out the Red Carpet when Employees are on the Way Out the Door, Don’t Drink Your Own Kool Aid, etc) and I figured I might as well just write them up and make them available for future people who might be interested. I never really expected a big audience or ever thought about it.

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. Read more

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9 Ways to Build Followers for Your New Blog | MaxBlogger Stories

9 Ways to Build Followers for Your New BlogPosted on 05. Jul, 2011 by Mitz Hi my name is Mitz from WordPress Website Builder. I build websites for a living and love sharing what I know about websites. Building a blog or website is easy. Writing posts can be a bit trickier. The most challenging task of running a blog, however, is neither building the site nor writing the posts. Instead, the trickiest part of blogging is getting your blog read by the people who will find it awesome and keep coming back for more. Building your followers does take some investment from you, but it’s an investment that is well worth it in the end.Building blog followers can be a time-consuming task as you will need to attract and build followers in many other places besides your own blog. It is like weaving a big Web and it will all lead back to your fantastic, top-quality, interesting Web content.via 9 Ways to Build Followers for Your New Blog | MaxBlogger Stories.