Secrets of the City

in re blogging as a marketing tool in traditional business tool…is it really creating incrimental revenue, or are these folks just extending their workday as a hobby? I don’t mean to incite a bloggeriot here, I’m just curious.

Need you even ask the question, grote?

Honest to Blog!

is it really creating incrimental revenue, or are these folks just extending their workday as a hobby?

I think the best ones started out as the latter and it turned into the former. And they are the best ones because it clearly shows that they’re passionate and knowledgeable about the topic, not just doing it because it’s good marketing.

Let the Winter Carnival see-saw back again!

With the possible exception of Grand Old Day, I can’t think of a single event more regularly marred by bad weather than the Winter Carnival. Some of that no doubt has to do with planning an outdoor event in the deepest depths of winter, but it seems that every few years the carnival needs to make an expensive splash that buries it deep in the red.

Maybe this year’s carnival is what it should have been: all of the camp and circumstance that such an event merits, but none of the attention-grabbing extravaganzas that draw interest, if not enough, for one year, then a complete lack in the next. And maybe move the venue somewhere with fun winter activities beyond that tiny skating rink — I’ll hint you that it might be necessary to leave downtown.

grote, I think the ones who are doing well have basically taken content – in most cases, advice – they were delivering on a 1 to 1 basis and blogging it instead. That scales much better.

So I’m a little unclear after reading Reetsburger’s blog, but I think she didn’t want to pay $15 to park. I think. Is that right?

I don’t think anyone wants to pay $15 for parking. Her issue seemed to be, after paying $15 for parking, a person expects more entertainment than a goulash tent and a tiny ice rink.

– parking was impossible and overpriced ($15).
– we couldn’t find any parking for less than $15.
– we couldn’t see paying $15 for parking just to chow some hot dish.
– I just couldn’t convince myself to pay $15 to park
– Perhaps parking was only impossible on the day we tried to go? Perhaps the hot dish is worth a $15 parking fee?

Ha! Meanie pants.

A few of us were just talking this last weekend about how little we seemed to have heard about the Winter Carnival events this year. I didn’t even know that it had gone on until I saw a piece on the last torchlight parade on the 10 pm news on Sat. Was there less publicity this year, or were we just not paying attention?