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"I don't have time to blog" = "The time it would take me to blog is worth more to me than the ROI I'd get from writing a blog."
and "I don't know what I'd write about" = "I don't know who'd be reading my blog so as to make it easy to know what to write about."
Facebook and Twitter address both objections by giving users a well-defined, sometimes really big audience.
The idea of writing stuff they think no one's going to read isn't very appetizing to most people.
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"I don't have time to blog" = "The time it would take me to blog is worth more to me than the ROI I'd get from writing a blog."
and "I don't know what I'd write about" = "I don't know who'd be reading my blog so as to make it easy to know what to write about."
Facebook and Twitter address both objections by giving users a well-defined, sometimes really big audience.
The idea of writing stuff they think no one's going to read isn't very appetizing to most people.