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What type of Internet portal is best for promoting your work: A website or a blog?

Results so far:

Website
68% 320 votes Total: 468 votes
Blog
32% 148 votes
  • 1 of 18

    by Damian Brown

    "I lead an interesting life..." begins your blog, ample enough introduction to your range of skills and talents. No, I'm only playing, it really isn't. There are many boons t...read more

  • 2 of 18

    by Branavan Ganesan

    I am writing on the side of the website only because there is no third choice, which is a hybrid approach of having a website with a supporting blog for community interaction. ...read more

  • 3 of 18

    by Victoria Neely

    The pat answer is: It depends on you and your business. No, really. Blogs and websites come with their own pros and cons, and you'll want to weigh them before deciding. For most...read more

  • 4 of 18

    by avisotin

    This issue can be addressed quite with the reciprocal question: why do so many businesses rely on websites to promote themselves instead of blogs? Websites offer a lot more flex...read more

  • 5 of 18

    by Marisa Wright

    These days, when we consider how to promote ourselves online as writers, our first thought is to write a blog. But is it the right solution? Could a (seemingly old-fashioned) ...read more

  • 6 of 18

    by Aster C. Lilly

    Let's qwell the debate; as far as self-promotion goes, a website makes the best place to promote your work. After all, traffic equals promotion. How does internet traffic eq...read more

  • 7 of 18

    by John Graham

    Website or Blog to promote your work? Let's first define what these two are. A Website is a constructed site, hopefully attractively and well designed for promoting your w...read more

  • 8 of 18

    by Tian Hou

    A blog or website. A website would be most suited for promoting your work. A website adds a professional touch when promoting a person work. When you think of a blog you general...read more

  • 9 of 18

    by Saurabh Pal

    To build a blog or a website is the question. A very interesting debate and a question most individuals and companies have to face, when they start doing business over the inter...read more

  • 10 of 18

    by Steve Lussing

    People who blog are people who WANT websites. People who HAVE websites use a different set of tools to create their web pages and which lets them deploy those pages to their se...read more

  • 11 of 18

    by Suzanne Fleming

    A blog and a website are two very different things. Currently, blogs are extremely popular. They are being used effectively by freelancers to promote themselves and their work. ...read more

  • 12 of 18

    by Lou Rainaldi

    A web site provides so much more versatility as to a blog. A blog is something that you put on your web site, so by setting up a web site you can include a blog in the site. A b...read more

  • 13 of 18

    by Wouter Janmaat

    Although the statement isn't that clear, I'll approach the topic as being a business thing. It's promoting the job that you are doing currently on the world wide web. Putting th...read more

  • 14 of 18

    by Tim Harford

    To decide the best outlet for promoting your work, you first have to consider that each medium has its own pros and cons, then second you have to consider your target audience, ...read more

  • 15 of 18

    by Cristy Hebert

    If you are looking at serious people to look at your work, you need to go with a website. Blogs are still associated with people telling us about their lives, which we are tired...read more

  • 16 of 18

    by Scott Heritage

    Personally i have had more success at getting my work read and appreciated from websites than blogs. Websites whether personal or professionally organized (by that i mean sites ...read more

  • 17 of 18

    by Sean Ackleat

    I don't like MySpace. It wasn't so unless I discovered how greedy MySpace is. It earns millions of dollars from ads displayed on people's profiles, but how much of this money an...read more

  • 18 of 18

    by M Ichael Bossons

    Personally I'd prefer a website it's just more expediant and useful...in a world that thinks they can blog there way to a greater understanding...when for instance, my melaysian...read more

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    by Gail Kavanagh

    Is the money you pour into maintaining a personal website worth it compared to having a blog? Last year I was in a position to answer that question. I had a website and a blog. ...read more

  • 2 of 16

    by Teresa Brouwer

    As a published author, I had a website and a blog. Given the fact that I am truly a struggling writer, maintaining a website didn't come easy. I had to pay for a domain name, a ...read more

  • 3 of 16

    by Ruth Belena

    You are a writer. You want to promote your work. You have written Helium articles and you want to earn more money from them. You could place links to your articles on a personal...read more

  • 4 of 16

    by Andy Fugdale

    This is a tough decision because both blogs and websites have certain advantages over the other when it comes to promoting products or services. I suppose the choice of which i...read more

  • 5 of 16

    by Patricia Faulhaber

    Website or blog? The best portal for promoting one's work is actually best answered by one's work. Being a professional writer, the best way to promote my work to potential clie...read more

  • 6 of 16

    by Rasha Abushamaa

    Promoting your work online is a challenge, because the net is crowded and probably there are many other companies like yours trying to promote their work as well. Therefore, the...read more

  • 7 of 16

    by Christopher Kendalls

    Blogs utilize different technologies to allow you to create social-networks around your work that regular websites do not often have. For example, you can use RSS to allow read...read more

  • 8 of 16

    by Marco Angioni II

    Promoting your work is important if you want to profit from the same. Therefore, you should promote your work is all the available mediums. One such medium is the Internet. W...read more

  • 9 of 16

    by David Madden

    Having had both Blog and static website, I have found that Blogs are more adept at helping to promote a business or personal work. The nature of the Blog allows for users to co...read more

  • 10 of 16

    by Animesh Singh

    Blog is the best place to write about anything because it is free first of all and you dont have to spend a penny for getting some place to write .Then again you should not worr...read more

  • 11 of 16

    by Jake Russo

    Promoting your work in a thoughtful and useful way is one of the most difficult tasks faced when choosing to create an online presence for yourself or your business. One of the...read more

  • 12 of 16

    by John Mercier

    In my opinion the best Internet portal is a blog. This is why... your website is basically a landing page for your target audience, but you have to attract those visitors so...read more

  • 13 of 16

    by Jill Craft

    Most commonly through website writing techniquie blogs are used in order to promote certain characteristics of a writer's or advertiser's technique. Usually a blog, or a psuedo...read more

  • 14 of 16

    by Ciarra Jones

    Websites are a great way to get information out but you can't get it out if no one knows about the website. I find it better to have a blog because its like having free promotio...read more

  • 15 of 16

    by Kobayashi

    Promoting work + low cost = blog That is my definition so far especially if you consider that putting blog domain into DNS file is not your responsibility and many other things...read more

  • 16 of 16

    by Matthew Mcguire

    What type of internet portal is best for promoting your work: a website or a blog? While both, the website and the blog, are very useful promotional tools if you are just...read more

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