S&MM has finally jumped on the blog bandwagon. We spend so much time reporting everyone else’s opinions and experiences that we decided it was time to have a place to sound off on our own. I had fun reporting and writing a story on blogging for our October issue, so I’m particularly pleased to have a place where we can share thoughts more immediately with readers.
Most of the business blogs I stumbled upon while writing my story seem to fall into one of two categories: those that voice pundit opinions or observations and follow trends, and those that act as a sort of roman a clef where bloggers reveal (hopefully anonymously, lest they get shown the door) the warts-and-all aspects of Corporate America. Admittedly, it’s more fun to read the latter. One of the more compelling reads that falls in this category is BigPictureSmallOffice.com; the blogger even has a sales and marketing link. Whether or not everything this executive writes about is true, I’m sure everyone can relate to the experiences at some point in their career. I also think the blogger is a novelist in training, judging by the use of color and detail to describe office happenings.
Do many of you blog? And do they err on the side of analysis and trend-watching—or dishing dirt on your company?
Wonderful page may make endless growth, with thanks present, all the build up about skills can be to keep on getting to know, curiosity is normally the start of immense success.
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I would like to hear from folks who have done their own marketing and selling of their personal homes or investment properties.
1. Why did you decide to go it alone?
2. What did you do to advertise your real estate?
3. How did you negotiate your contract....yourself or with help?
4. If helped, by whom?
5. Did you meet your selling target date?
6. Did you get the price you wanted? Explain.
7. How many days did it take to sell your real estate.
Please let me know whether it was a personal residence or investment real estate and any comments.
Thank you!
Posted by: Christina | January 05, 2006 at 12:58 PM
I would like to hear from anyone who has had success selling training and education in the energy world?
Many thanks and happy thanksgiving,
Keith
Posted by: Keith Guernsey | November 22, 2005 at 02:46 PM
Great initiative by S&MM. I myself is a sales person from India. Nice to know opinion of the peer group.Wish people visit my URL too-http://thinking-sambit.blogspot.com
Posted by: Sambit | October 12, 2005 at 02:35 AM
Welcome to the club. One of the blogs I read divided up bloggers into categories almost exactly like you described...pundits and observers. The warts-and-all category is new, I think, but appropriate. I've been all three, and warts-and-all is the most fun.
Whatever category it is, remember it is a soapbox. We are here to to hear what you have to say. Good luck.
Posted by: Dave J. | October 07, 2005 at 03:56 PM
May I be among the first to extend to you a warm welcome to Blog World. You will be in for an adventure, though not always one of your own choosing.
Thank you for your kind words and for using me as an example of a genre. Although at times, I feel that Big Picture, Small Office is the answer to a question no one has asked, it does have a dedicated and growing audience that apparently finds the truth more enlightening than fiction and the narrative form more entertaining than exposition.
For these stories to have interest and to resonate, they must have their roots firmly planted in reality. All the events have indeed taken place, though there have been strategic dislocations of time and space. The people do exist, though if they have not been genetically altered, then they have at least been airbrushed to protect the innocent. And, for the record, I also exist. Also, for the record, I do, in fact, occupy a corner office, this over-rated piece of real estate being the reward for a quarter century of experience and some small measure of achievement.
Big Picture, Small Office is designed to both titillate and educate. It does not provide prescriptions for marketing or business excellence unless they are appropriate to the topic and fall out neatly in the course of events. Free advice and editorial comment come only in passing.
As you move forward, rest assured that you will always be a welcome visitor to The Small Office. These visits will, no doubt, be a source of both inspiration and frustration for you as they have been for so many others.
Best of luck.
BPG
Posted by: Big Picture Guy | October 05, 2005 at 09:40 PM