Typepad Free Trial – 14 Days

By on June 7, 2007 in Blogging with 4 Comments

In most cases, I recommend a business or company open a Free Trial (Pro Account) with Typepad before we begin working on their business blog. 

After submitting all the payment data, you can choose a layout, template and choose the publicity level. Also in that step, is where you set the blog to be publicized (indexed by search engines) or not. I always suggest choosing "not publicized" during the Free Trial.

The first week, there’s one homework assignment. Get used to the tool. Post 4-5 entries (over a 3-7 day period – not all in one day), at least two with images.

Why the Free Trial? For the blogger – it gives them a sense of whether blogging is going to be a sustainable activity. For the coach (that’s me), I get a sense at whether they’re coachable.

Important Note: Typepad’s Free Trial used to be 30 days – now it’s 14 days. I think that’s plenty – and frankly I think it brings focus to the trial.

There is also another level of account, Premium ($29.95 mth). I upgraded. Supposed to be faster – but I guess they mean bandwidth, not my work speed.

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  • http://www.ProsperityAchiever.com Alwitt

    Why would use Typepad when WordPress is the best platform out there and the best of all it’s FREE?

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Hi Alwitt, Great question. I agree that WordPress is a powerful platform – but it does take a good degree of tech savvy (putting it on a server, knowing a bit of code, etc)
    The folks I work with (business folks who blog to augment their offline business rather than as a business) prefer something as easy as email.
    When you look at cost (WordPress on a server or Typepad hosted), the costs are similar – and in fact sometimes less for Typepad.
    That doesn’t take anything away from the power of WP, but Typepad is simply powerful.

  • http://www.typertappers.com Mike

    WordPress is free and a much better option, when talking about hosting installing wordpress on a host server it costs me at least £25 a year compare that to typepad i think you will find a big difference and for the £25 i get shared hosting with higher bandwidth and storage, so for price I think your way off you will end up paying a lot more for typepad.
    Typepad has so many problems one is you cant post comments using Opera I need to boot up Firefox just to comment on any blog using typepad which is so annoying.
    If anyone ever asks me whats best to create a blog with I say wordpress.

  • http://www.converstations.com Mike Sansone

    Mike – I’ll agree that WordPress is a powerful blogging platform. Customers who have the savvy and structure to put a WordPress on their server and hurdle the sometimes less-than-intuitive WYSIWYG love it. But those are rare instances (global – not just Iowa). Gotta know the audience:-)

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