Faces on a Blog: Walk-in or Drive-Through?

By on May 1, 2007 in Blogging with 7 Comments

One of the first (and best) things I did when I first hung out my shingle was to invest a lot of time at Panera. It became my office.

Eventually, friendships with other Panera-ians were forged. After seeing each other daily, we’d get to know each other. Small talk became big talk. Acquaintances became friendships. Some think I know everyone that comes in (I’m tryin’).

Peeps In a similar manner, MyBlogLog and other social network toolsets allow you to build such a community in and around your blog efforts.

A few new business blogs I work with hesitate to implement these widgets, but I encourage them to do so without hesitation. At the very least, open an account and "show up" as you visit other sites.

It’s much like the drive-through at Starbucks (Panera doesn’t do drive-through). If you walk-in for your daily coffee, people will get used to seeing you…they’ll get to know you – maybe even miss you when you don’t show.  If you drive-through – they’ll not even know you exist.

So…are you a walk-in blogger          or a drive-through blogger?

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  • http://essentialkeystrokes.com Char

    What a great analogy! Me, definitely a walk in blogger. I love seeing all the faces from MyBlogLog every day.

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  • http://managetochange.typepad.com ann michael

    Hi Mike!
    I love having mybloglog on my blog. I don’t usually go for a lot of sidebar gadgets, but I just LOVE seeing people’s faces on the sidebar. It just makes my day when I recognize people that have visited my blog!
    Ann

  • http://www.legalandrew.com Andrew Flusche

    Hi Mike,
    I find it timely that I just pulled up this page, right after walking out of Panera. :)
    I try to be a walk-in blogger, and I love having faces on my blog. I’ve also got MyBlogLog faces on people’s comments. It makes it more fun!
    On another note, I worked at Taco Bell during high school. I made food for the drive-through line every day in the summer. For the regulars, we knew exactly what they would order, just by hearing their voice. But of course, I wouldn’t know them from Adam on the street. And nobody else knew them at all.
    Take care,
    Andrew

  • http://www.credibilitybrandingblog.com/ Jennifer McLean

    This is a great tool to build traffic and takes the “body length” conversation to more of an arms length. It can’t hurt your brand to use these social networking tools, in fact, I believe it puts a human face (literally) to your brand and the audience attracted to your blog.

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