racoma.com.phJ. Angelo Racoma on technology, economics, writing, problogging, and getting things done

I’ve been blogging for about four years now, and I’ve been a resource person in several blogging and podcasting seminars and workshops (iBlog, FNF, Digital Filipino). Blogging has been my passion and my occupation for most of that time, too. I started with being a corporate problogger, then a network/independent problogger. And just recently, I have also ventured into blog lordship (as they call it), with several blogs and blog networks under my care (a few of them very high-profile ones).

I’ve decided to up the ante. I’m now offering to share my knowledge in blogging through business blogging consultancy and blogger workshops. I know I’ve been helping people and even a few businesses learn the ropes of blogging (including business blogging). Perhaps some of my posts here are leading to that, too. However, I thought that making it a more established undertaking will help me become more organized, and perhaps even get me more clients.

Of course, my priority is still my problogging and and blog network management. Consulting will be part of the bigger picture.

Come to think of it, business blogging and blogging consultancy in general could be part of my network. I’m just not sure that can be included in our thrusts right now.

So what is this all about? If you run a business, and you’re interested in marketing your products/services through word-of-blog, I can help you.

If you run an organization and you want to harness blogs and new media for collaboration and information sharing, I can help you.

If you are clueless about blogging and you want to start blogging without having to learn the ropes the hard way, I can help you.

If you’re already a blogger, but you want to improve on your blog/s and blogging (like enhancing traffic, optimize for the search engines, and even earn or earn more), I can help you.

If you’re interested, head on to my consultancy and workshops page for information and for the contact form.

I got a pleasant surprise via SMS this evening. Gelo Ancheta texted me that I’ve been featured on the November issue of Entrepreneur Magazine (Philippines). I had actually been corresponding with contributor Justine Castelleon since late July, but I was able to send her my response to her interview questions only this late September. I was thinking the mag would no longer accommodate my interview since they already had a feature on online consulting in the August issue.

So off I went to the Mini Stop convenience store just a block down our street (at 1:30 a.m.!) to get my own copy. True enough, it was there. The Entrepreneur feature wasn’t as extensive as I expected though, and it was mostly focused on the online aspect of consultancy work instead of problogging.

I also took the opportunity to browse other magazines available, and I chanced upon Abe’s article about earning from blogs on PC Magazine. I saw a screenshot of a familiar website, and it turned out to be The J Spot!

How I wish I were one of the top 10 entrepreneurs of the year (and how I wish I were earning like them, too)!

Holiday tech guide: Buy Angelo a MacBook Pro!

Blog screenshots. Mine’s at the upper-right.

Some Excerpts

From Entrepreneur,

Online consultants target clients who are comfortable transacting information online … To put up a good blogsite (I have an aversion towards this term. I prefer to “blogs” or “weblogs” -Ed), you must first pick a domain name that’s memorable, short and easy to spell, and usually reflects your business purpose. Your site must contain your business portfolio and contact information … Your site should be easy to navigate with a good search function.

Word of mouth is still the best way to market this business, according to Racoma. This is done by linking to other sites and writing comments on other sites linking back to one’s own. “Signing up with website networks, communes, directories, or even advertising on other blogs or sites,” are also ways to advertise your online business, he says.

From PC Mag,

J. Angelo Racoma has been a fulltime problogger since January this year: “I get to experience a more flexible work/business arrangemet. Now, I have more time to explore options and opportunities that weren’t available to me before when I was working nine to five. I get to watch over the kids, too!”

That’s pretty much the meat of it—at least with regard to what was written about me. Go grab your own copies if you’d like to check out the other great reads. Unfortunately, neither mag puts up all of its printed content online. Entrepreneur retails for PhP 125 while PC Mag costs PhP 100.