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Hi Dave, my name’s Jonathan and i read your blog!

A rallying cry, Dave! SHOUT it from the rooftops! This kind of thing can’t be said often enough.

Some excellent call-outs, here, too – some I’ve heard of and read, some I haven’t – and I’ll sure check them out.

And some lovely words, most heartening.

Dave – you’re plenty successful if you ask me. Don’t get me wrong, page rank is nice, and so are the other things you mentioned. But if you’re writing just to make money, then you are missing the boat.

Zig Ziglar said it best: If you help enough people get what they want, eventually you’ll get what you want.

If success is what you are after Dave, you have achieved it my friend, because your posts give me what I want: inspiration, humor, and insights I can’t find anywhere else.

And all in an authentic, non-commercial way. Well done.

Don’t stop being you!

Hi Dave (and everyone else) — I agree; it’s fun to see my Alexa rank grow, and sure, there are tangible things that these page ranks mean… but like you said, it’s about the people and the relationships, and our businesses (for those who are business bloggers).

I’d much rather have a great connection with one person online than see my technorati scores go up because of some arbitrary keyword efficiency (or whatever does the trick) and not have had the chance to serve.

There’s a few things I got out of the Technorati Exchange that’s priceless. First, is to know people like you. Second, is to have fellow bloggers and total strangers telling me that my blog tells them a thing or two about marketing and advertising. Third, I have more confidence in writing. Allow me to elaborate …

Dave, you don’t visit my blog often. That doesn’t stop me from knocking on your door everyday. Your wisdom is my daily diet to my mental and emotional self. I have no intention to starve. By the way, I saw at least 2 visitors from your community visiting my Feed The Children post. Enlarging a social network allows me to contribute further to a greater cause.

By sharing my marketing & advertising knowledge, I learnt a great deal in return,. This exchange enriched me wonderfully.

Coupled with the new found confidence in writing, I might just be able to put together a book, workshop or seminar in the future.

Without blogging, I would not discover all these in a short 3 months.

Keep up this marvellous blog.

Yep — connection the rallying cry of the relationship-focused blogger conversation architect.

And if that’s the goal, then the strategy becomes less of a focus. So, ‘technorati-memes/ranks’ need not be shunned, just de-emphasized (at least on the basis of this idea of moving more towards connection).

I’m working on it, I’m working on it…

Greg is right. Write with integrity, sincerity and passion, and the result will come. I don’t deny that I write sponsored posts from time to time. However, whatever sponsored post I wrote must have at least, at least one marketing and advertising angle so that I stay true to my blog’s theme. I will lose my readers if my posts lose values. I spent lots of time, effort and resources reading, researching and thinking to make my posts informative and fun, I’m not prepared to surrender integrity for small money and I certainly don’t want to lose readers that I built up from scratch.

Sorry for the delay in getting back here. I’ve been digging out of huge work hole. I’ve almost replaced all the dirt now.

I’m not against monetizing either. Though I want my blog to first be about content, conversation and relationships. I’m guessing I’ll monetize more in the future – though not at the expense of content or conversation.

For me, blogging is about growing my service-based business. I see a natural progression from conversation to relationship to client or referrer. Not manipulation, just a natural progression. My entire business has been built on giving first. That’s where I see the blog…give first and the return will happen.