Most people looking at a doctor or a restaurant owner decide that person got lucky. The reprinted piece opening this blog argues the reverse: almost everybody starts from roughly the same line, and opportunity does nothing for you when you decline to answer the door.
Donato Stough is upfront that the piece belongs to somebody else and that he reprinted it because he agreed with every word, which is a more honest arrangement than most borrowing online.
His own writing covers a networking and blogging platform he uses, and the pitch rests on a question worth asking about your own site. Not whether you are publishing, but whether anybody is seeing it. He also sorts online marketers into groups, which helps when you cannot tell where you fit among them.
One post is straightforward campaign support for a presidential candidate and takes much of its text from that campaign, so weigh it as advocacy.
Take the post asking whether your blog is being seen at all. Publishing into silence is the condition most people are in without saying so.