It’s the long tail in action. Stay in your niche.

My second response: Blogging is just like real estate. Quality content. Quality content. Quality content.

And one thing Freight and Shipping does is maintain a laser focus on the topic of the content.

It’s really just a blog about freight and shipping.

Thanks for the kind words.

I had planned on telling them about you if they needed blogging help. I like to share useful information, and your posts certainly qualify.

Tariq, You’ve got good stuff on your table. Why wouldn’t I want to check it out?

I’ll be curious how you like SquareSpace over time. It is nowhere near as popular as the other three I mentioned right now. But that doesn’t mean it might not be better!

Oh, and if any of your clients ever want to talk blogging to help them get their minds around what it can and can not do, give me a shout. [Shameless Plug]

Thank you very much for the kind words and especially for taking the time to come over to The Kitchen Table. I will keep looking around the blogosphere to learn and to contribute where I might add to the discussion.

The Freight & Shipping story will be useful to me in the future because I advise some of my entrepreneur clients about growing their businesses. Many are hesitant about blogging because they are concerned that they may not get the look quite right. This story will help them know that they can grow through blogging if they focus on good content.

Regarding using Squarespace, my blog was given to me as a gift by a very good friend — my children call him uncle though he’s not a blood relative. Though I did not pick the software, it is easy for a newbie like me to use.

Your blog is full of useful, well presented information. I plan to keep reading it.

Took a quick walk around your place and you are off to an excellent start. My advice is keep writing, find other blogs in your niche and subscribe to their feeds, keep adding value to other blogs with your quality comments. Your blog will grow over time.

When I started my personal blog it took months before any dialog started in the comments. I didn’t understand how to participate in the blogosphere then. I’d learned enough by the time I started this blog that it got up to speed much more quickly.

I’m curious. Why did you chose SquareSpace over some of the others out there such as TypePad, WordPress, or Blogger?

Great post, and good comments by Tris and by you.

I am a new blogger, and I want to provide my readers with the best content that I can write. Though my blog occupies a niche, I still want to fill it well. With all that is written about flash, I was beginning to wonder about the thing that I had hoped was most important — good content. Thanks for affirming that content matters.