Comments on: Blog Review: Failure is the Key to Success

By: janni

janni — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:06:17 +0000

Thomas Edison’s unparalleled success as an American inventor was not without its failures. As a matter of fact, before making the first successful light bulb, he made several thousand unsuccessful ones.

By: Genevieve

Genevieve — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:09:03 +0000

Stumbled across your blog — enjoyed reading it. Added you to my feed reader and will be back.

By: Reztar

Reztar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:00:02 +0000

Just saw Ian’s site. Good to learn from people’s failure and experience

By: BlogOxide

BlogOxide — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:26:27 +0000

Very well said! I’m blogging for an year or so, and made some real blunders, but in fact learnt a lot from my failures. Must say, I won’t have learnt if not committed such mistakes.

By: Cory W

Cory W — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:32:26 +0000

One cannot achieve success without prior failures. Failures make a person grow in maturity. I have personally gone through many failures, and when a similar situation arises, i now know how to handle it.

By: Andy Murray

Andy Murray — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:15:24 +0000

Using an old sport saying “you learn more from losing than you do winning”

By: sintra

sintra — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 05:17:36 +0000

Interesting article. Indeed, failure can be a key to success if you are strong and whise enough to use it that way:) But also improvement will help and WordPress is the next step for you, Ian. Regarding your english, most of bloggers and guests are not native english speakers and they make mistakes, important is that your articles are interesting, insightful. But since improvement is also a key to success, take the english classes (I know I should )

By: BMapblog

BMapblog — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:43:49 +0000

Well things aint so good for mine. My blog aint attracting too much visitors. Perhaps its my English. Well, back to English classes again..

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:03:34 +0000

Hi Randa,

Thank you for your review. I can see your point about focusing more in my area of expertise to give the blog a direction and provide value.
I agree with you, migrating to Wordpress is something that needs to happen sooner than later.
I will try to take your suggestions on board and be more focused.

Regards,
Ian

By: Traveller

Traveller — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 04:31:58 +0000

This is useful. I have been blogging for a year too and I think one of two things work in increasing readership and retaining existing readers: focus (your point above) or the quality of your writing (humorous, insightful, etc.).