Comments on: Hiring Help for Your Blog – Why a Generalist is the Way to Go

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Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:46:59 +0000

[...] Now, I’m not knocking the idea that focused study will make you a master at something.Â Can’t be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist without it.Â But specialized mastery of one subject alone will not boost your chances of growing fast in your business.Â A healthy dose of generalizing, however, will.Â (Michael gets this.) [...]

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:34:33 +0000

@Harry – that is a great idea! (if you have a FeedBurner feed, anyways.)

By: Harrison McLeod

Harrison McLeod — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:56:54 +0000

@Valerie: If you had a feed on Feedburner, just go and grab your old posts from your feed. James and I had to do that once before.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:54:46 +0000

@Valerie – I’m sorry you had such a bad experience due to a lack of knowledge and expertise from others.

You still may be able to recover your old posts, though it will be painstaking. Check out the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for your old site. You may be able to copy and paste the old posts. If you need help in the future, you know where to find me!

By: Valerie

Valerie — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:32:53 +0000

Michael,

Thanks for this post. I wish I had known this about three weeks ago when I lost my database and my original blog. I asked several people for help with the blog but received no response. I have since moved the blog to a blog friendly host and literally started over. Mine is not a business blog, it’s about caregiving, but it’s important to me just the same.

I will probably need help later so I will cherish this info. Thanks for listing all of your skills and taking the guess work out of finding assistance.

By: James- Men with Pens

James- Men with Pens — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:46:47 +0000

Good one, Michael. This reminds me of our own business, where we offer much the same services as yours (probably to a different target market). We specialize in online business from content to CSS, so I’m not keen on taking the “generalist” label onto ourselves.

Well done!

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:17:03 +0000

@PixelWit – LOL, that’s a good one! I like that. I have modified a few .htaccess files in my time, yes! It’s a mystery to most people for many reasons, the first of which is usually they can’t see it because of its unusual dot-first name. And if you screw up an .htaccess file, your whole site can be inaccessible until you fix it. Messing with them puts most folks way out of their comfort zone.

By: PixelWit

PixelWit — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:59:45 +0000

A wise man once said, “An expert is someone who learns more and more about less and less, and eventually knows everything about nothing!”

I’m curious to know why you listed “Modifying an .htaccess file” as a skill. I hope you’ve modified more than one.

By: Michael Martine, Blog Consultant

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:59:32 +0000

@Jean – Yes! Me too, LOL. Incredible Hulk, Fantasy Island, yup! And then a bit later: Knight Rider and A-Team.

I love it when a plan comes together…

By: Jean Gogolin

Jean Gogolin — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:34:49 +0000

I watched a lot of “Love Boat” with my then-13-year-old daughter the year after The Divorce. Followed by “The Incredible Hulk” and “Fantasy Island.” (“A plane! A plane!”) It was a great bonding experience. She’s in her 40s now (yikes!)with a 13-year-old of her own, and we still laugh about that.