Well here it is officially. After much debate and personal struggle (about a years worth), this is my official merging of Internet & Offline marketing together on one blog…

Lord help us all.

I suppose the main bug up my bum about this was the ability to combine both and not make it totally confusing, category wise especially.

For now I will just have a pronounced “Offline Marketing” category, with sub-categories as it grows.

I may even go so far as to put ALL web marketing categories as sub-categories under Web Marketing Tips, to avoid what could be real confusion.

I can think of two right off the bat. If you’re looking for offline advertising tips, you don’t want to go to the wrong one and get all flustered.

The same goes for social networking. After all, offline networking is social too right? Yep, that could get ugly…

I have spent a lot of time talking to a great many of you since I declared that I was tightening focus and splitting into a network of “elementary” Blogs.

My friend Katy Castro recently wrote about transitioning a niche blog, and one of the main points was Communicating With Readers, and that’s exactly what I’ve been doing.

Through comments, emails, messenger chat, and even phone conversations, the majority percentage of you really did not like the idea.

You were afraid I may ignore the other aspects, not cover them as thoroughly as I should or once did, etc etc. I can assure you this would not have been the case.

However, what’s the #1 rule for ANY business? Listen To Your People. (A slightly less obnoxious way to say “the customer is always right”.) It is very true.

Whether they are website/blog readers, customers, clients, or whatever…without them you have NOTHING.

Read to the end for a big link love fest for those who participate.

First and foremost, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! to all Moms and expectant Moms out there, did you call yours? :-). This post is for all Bloggers far and wide that think it’s “just not happening”…it WILL.

Since I make it a point to tell everything that happens on or to this Blog, here goes.

Read to the end for a big link love fest for those who participate…

Those of you that have been with me since the beginning, know that this blog hasn’t been up all that long. I started 8 months ago in October 2007, although it doesn’t look it.

That may seem like a lifetime to some, but it really isn’t. Especially since I really didn’t start promoting much until the last couple months.