Ray Edwards tagged me.

So…  Now I gotta answer 5 Reasons why I am blogging, then I need to pick 5 other bloggers and have them answer and pass on their question to 5 people each, and so on and so on… I’ll be your Huckleberry…. sounds fun.

1. I blog because it is easier than writing a website! Ya, I built and wrote a lot of websites, but I love how fast and simple it is to come up with an idea, log in, put it down by making the thought a real thing that is now captured digitally for me and others to see. I can just write about whatever, or throw out a promotion or just post a video for people to enjoy.

2. I blog because I love how the search engines love blogs. Everytime I post, google knows about it in a couple hours. I use Google alerts and I can see my blogs getting picked up by google the SAME DAY, multiple times a day. I can see when other people quote my blog or talk about it. Getting good rankings with good posts is fun. Watching how it works and seeing it work is so easy, compared to building a static website, that pretty much never changes, other than finding an occasional spelling error I overlooked 40 times and finally found. Search engines love blogs cause they are current, real and now. They are not static, but dynamic.

3. I blog because I believe in the “WHO IS” concept I have started and always championed. People can read my who is story at www.whoisjeffmills.com but it ends there. It was the past up to that point and I did not add any more to the story. I guess I could. I made more money, met more people, got involed in more programs, but with a blog, you see the history. You can view the history of my posts, from the first day in November, 2006, when I wrote  my first post here. You know who I am, sometimes…. better than I might know myself and that is kinda strange.

4. I blog because it is podcast friendly. I can get an easy RSS Feed, all seamless and done for me. I can create audio or video podcasts, with a plugin called Podpress and I can share messages, both audio and video with people in a way words on a page won’t. You take me with you when you job, drive, play or just are bored. You listen to me when it is best for you. I give you choice and convenience.

5. I blog because I can make money with it. I can recommend products, services, links to my stuff, other people’s stuff and people click, go and buy. Wow, that was easy. Based on a recommendation of a friend (me), my readers listen and obey. They trust me cause I don’t talk about junk. I can put up ads in my blog, Yahoo Ads, affiliate links, people come here click and I make an income which pays the bills and feeds my family. Thank you!

And because I am a marketer and you always have to give a bonus…

6. I blog because this is how people can have a two way dialogue. The internet is no longer a spectator sport, where people just watch and read. Now they react and interact. People can tell me my post was way off or right on. I can get feedback, and I can get help when I am stumped. I make friends, I made enemies.

Ok, those are my 5 Reasons why I am blogging, plus one bonus.

And Now… I deem the tag on these 5 people, pass it on…

1. John Roney
2. Joel Comm
3. Matthew Glanfield
4. Paul Colligan
5. Taylor Marek