Almost a month ago I posted to my blog at MaineToday.com Can Blogging Help Maine’s Tourism Industry? One commenter questioned whether blogging makes any impact on a business, while another said he had experienced a lot more business because of blogging. The bottom line is, results differ for a number of reasons:

• Frequency of posts
• Search engine visibility
• Competition
• Time of year
• Audience
• and so on.

Although I’ve found blogging to be the most rewarding of all the Web marketing activities we do, it can be time consuming. (Here are some tips, courtesy of Copyblogger, for those of you who have trouble finding the time to blog.)

More than once, I’ve seen business bloggers with the best of intentions slow their posts down to a crawl because they aren’t seeing immediate results based on the amount of work they are putting in. Unfortunately, at the beginning, you’ll be doing a lot more work and getting a lot fewer results than you would like. (But isn’t that how everything rewarding is?) However, over time, those two results will begin to reverse.

I’d like to share with you an (unsolicited) email I recently received from Gray Cabaniss who writes the Agatha and Louise Blog, a blog that supports his retail and online shops that sell gifts and products for dog owners and dog lovers:

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