Blogging Strategy

I've also stopped talking about blogging for the longest time but I thought I'd share this simple and quick presentation I did earlier today. I believe I first read about the term Strategy Tax from Dave Winer's blog many years ago. Dare Obasanjo makes the same observation with search giant Google in his blog entry "Google's Strategy Tax: Integrity of Search Results vs. In essence, strategy tax is the price your users/customers pay in favor of a business strategy (and likewise, the other way around). In (pro) blogging, I believe we can also illustrate several examples along these lines: More ads than there are content. Nevertheless, I'm comfortable with that strategy tax. So, if you regard your problogging venture as some sort of a business, then consider your regular readers, rss subscribers and casual visitors as your customers. Your Blogging Strategy Tax will reflect how many of these customers will subscribe and/or retain your service as the content provider. Read more in our articles including "Building a Brand thru Blogging" and "Blogging & Strategy Tax".