Which Arm Are You Blogging With?

By on March 5, 2007 in Blog Coach with 7 Comments

Are you one-arming your blogging? Are you getting enough follow-through in your delivery?

Here’s a video of San Francisco Giants prospect, Tim Lincecum (hat tip to Jeff Passan’s column):

Notice his front arm? He builds up momentum by thrusting his lead arm downward which generates a lot of arm speed and follow-through. The ball is in his right hand, but if he didn’t pump that front elbow – he’d end up with a dead arm.

In your blogging, are you just making your pitch with your throwing arm? To build momentum and follow-through – read other blogs, link to other blogs, comment on other blogs – or you’ll end up with a dead blog.

Along similar baselines:
- Lewis Green at MarketingProfs DailyFix Growing Our Blogs: What Works & What Doesn’t?
- Stephen Ellis at The Complete Pitcher offers How to Build a Powerful Delivery

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  • http://www.blogopreneur.com Kian Ann

    hey Mike, thanks! I think reading always have to precede any writing, or else we will all be writing personal online journals :)
    In fact, I guess one of the best strategies I would recommend to friends who want to start a blog is “go read some blogs first!”… and I believe you would agree with this too.

  • http://healthywebdesign.com Dawud Miracle

    Totally dig the analogy. And it’s so true. Not only can I say this about blogging – but about businesses as a whole. I see so many small business websites that are ‘throwing with their arms’ and finding little or no success through their sites. And most often they suffer from ‘arm fatique’ because of it.
    What most small businesses need is to get their ‘whole body into the throw.’ Creating a solid plan, with steps for development and execution along with benchmarks to measure success, is like throwing with your whole body. More arm strength, further reach and greater success with less fatique.

  • http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com Robyn McMaster

    Hi Mike, I liked your analogy between blogging and following through the pitch in baseball “read other blogs, link to other blogs, comment on other blogs.”
    I set out at the beginning of this year to do just that. It makes a real difference. I sense I’ve grown new friends, such as you, around the blogosphere. Blogging isn’t just cold and to the masses but, it becomes more like sharing great ideas with a friend and getting some feedback. It’s not just about us and what we think, but it’s more about others’ ideas as well.

  • Adam Steen

    Awesome analogy! Another problem I noticed in pitchers was over thinking. If you over think and try to aim a pitch… Good luck hitting your spot. I struggle with that when I blog. I try to be too perfect and more often than not I never end up writing a post. I need to go back to my pitching mentality and pitch my blog without thinking. (ps… I’m going to blog about this… thanks for the idea)

  • http://supercoolschool.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/i_used_to_stand.html Steli Efti

    I used to stand upon the round table to blog. Boy that was stupid!

    In the beginning…blogging seemed to be something like this to me: You arrive at a football stadium with a gigantic round table on the field. As a blogger you are an active part of the conversation going on at the

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