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So why didn’t anyone tell me these things, huh? I was all excited to move over to WordPress and then last night, in the comfort of my couch I found out that WordPress wasn’t for me, the hard way! Despite advice from friends and colleagues that WordPress is the “cat’s meow” when it comes to things like layouts and plug-in’s, I must admit I was not impressed. Here are the turn-off’s for me.

1. While it easily imported all my posts from Blogger and automatically categorized them, I had tons of categories that I would have to manually edit. Um, I don’t have that kind of time. Why did it have to go and do that for? Why couldn’t I create my own on my time?

2. There is a charge for posting WordPress to my domain (lifeinmarketing) and yet again, it’s yet another process I have to manually go through getting servers to point here and there…I’m a marketer not a techie.

3. WordPress won’t allow any ads like AdSense or affiliate programs like Amazon on my blog. Hey I already have accounts with those two companies. I’m not blowing them off! Yet, WordPress tells me that from time to time, they will be putting ads on my site. What’s up with that?

4. Lastly, I want to keep it simple stupid. The good old KISS rule.

So it looks like I’m going to put more efforts into my existing Blogger account.

I have friends whose websites are built using WordPress and many others who swear by it. But for me and my needs, it doesn’t work for me at this point in time.

Any feedback would be great! I’m sure there’s so much about WordPress I still don’t know about.

I’m officially moving this blog and my lifeinmarketing.blogspot.com blog over to WordPress. Why? It’s been real with Blogger, but WordPress has many features. Some of which I don’t even know about yet.

Not sure which blog name I will keep, but it will be interesting. Everyone who reads my blog will be updated on my transition.

Thanks!
ALB

I have been blogging and writing on various topics related to marketing in both B2B and B2C for a little while now and have realized the impact of social networking on marketing. For 2009, I’m going to move on over to WordPress for one, focused blog. New name, new blog tool, and really diving in to helping others get the most out of their marketing efforts. Since I’ve been in marketing so long (14+ years), I am familiar with traditional and the latest and greatest on-line and social marketing strategies. Additionally I have the resources and sometimes I call it luxury of working for a technology company that offers cost-effective marketing solutions to help businesses stay ahead – recession or not!

Stay tuned and keep in touch because it’s going to be so much fun!

Happy 2009!