{"id":1039,"date":"2005-05-13T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/blogging_has_no"},"modified":"2005-05-13T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T14:22:33","slug":"blogging_has_no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1039","title":{"rendered":"Blogging has not reached the hinterlands&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am having an email exchange with a marketing consultant I really care for, and she writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>My target audience is really Directors and VPs of mktg at large technology companies. I&#8217;m not sure these folks are going to find me because I have a blog.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My response was: Only if they use the internet to find you&#8230;&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I am trying to explain the use of fire.<\/p>\n<p>See my earlier posts:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2005\/03\/the_quest_for_f.html\">The quest for fire<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2004\/08\/explaining_blog.html\">Explaining Blogs &#8211; lighting candles in the wind.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am more convinced every day that I need to gather up the blogging&nbsp; examples I have collected and package them into a small book with large print, simple diagrams, tables and quotes. It probably should be titled, <span style=\"color: #990033;\"><strong><em>Blogs are your Future<\/em><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t sell it, because the people that need it already have a solution (media buys and websites). I would print it and give it away, if necessary, to save myself from sending the same emails, over and over.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the blogosphere so hard to explain?<br \/>What is your solution, when friends are pursuing 20th century solutions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am having an email exchange with a marketing consultant I really care for, and she writes: My target audience is really Directors and VPs of mktg at large technology companies. I&#8217;m not sure these folks are going to find &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1804,1831],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-gL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}