Comments on: Big-Time Marketing Consultant is Dead Wrong about Blogging

By: shammara

shammara — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:30:50 +0000

It just depends on your idea of what a successful blog is.

By: hersh bhardwaj

hersh bhardwaj — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:12:14 +0000

Well, I wouldn’t want to contradict Alan during one of his conferences but I think all the right here ( being a blogger).
The first comment on Alan’s blogpost is by Seth Goding and he has blatantly contradicted him, saying ‘BTW, I didn’t have much of a ‘brand’ before I started blogging five or six years ago’.

Seth also gives Wikipedia’s example as a previously sneered by the skeptics like Alan.

I strongly believe that Alan is playing on the psychology of his clients. He himself doesn’t belong to the Web 2.0 and would not want his clientele to move on to that and empty his shop.

By: Kathleen Gage

Kathleen Gage — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:37:38 +0000

Although Allen tends to be right on a lot of topics, on this one I believe he missed the mark. The fact is, blogging is a viable part of companies (small and large) marketing strategy as are social networks and social media.

As a matter of fact, I recently blogged on the fact that many corporations are getting on the “social network” bandwagon. http://www.themarketingmindset.com/2008/06/social-networki.html

Kathleen Gage
aka The Street Smarts Marketer

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:02:05 +0000

That was an interesting article. It’s obvious that Alan’s not Internet savvy by his opinion and writing on the subject. His pagerank is 4, his Alexa ranking is okay, but contentmarketingtoday.com beats his page in both. And besides the article you mentioned, his comments are lacking across his entire blog. It actually says “Alan will not reply to any postings” on his about page (that’s administered by an outside party non-the-less). Hmmm. He certainly responded to a lot of comments on that one post…maybe because he was wrong and didn’t want to admit it…

He’s not “engaging” his audience through the blog very well. He says you can’t do reach corporate decision makers via a blog…he says that because “he can’t do it”. There are many cases that prove him wrong.

I wonder what Darrin at Problogger would think about his article. There are very few people who knew who he was 5 years ago when he started his small little blog…