Blow Back from my Post About the Trump Blog
Posted in Telecommunications by jspirko on May 15th, 2007 
Recently I posted about Donald Trump's Blog. In short I said it sucks, why, read my article for the whole story but honestly I said it sucked because Trump does not post often enough and his staff does not know how to Blog. I had two goals with this post.
Goal One - I used the most successful person I knew that had a blog with real problems. A blog devoid of emotion and to "salesy" if I may be permitted to create a fake word. This was to help others who make the same mistakes. I consult with CEOs, Presidents, etc on blogging and most make these same mistakes. I wanted to point out these mistakes and show that even a world class billionaire was not immune to them. The goal, make people look harder at their own blogs and be willing to see their mistakes because if someone as big as Trump made them, of course they could be doing the same thing.
Goal Two - I was hoping that someone from Trump University would respond. Getting someone from a group like that to comment is a big success on any blog. The results were great two staffers from Trump University responded.
One by the name of Josef Katz took my criticism in stride. He said he had brought up some of my same concerns and was trying to effect some change and invited me to discuss this off line with him. I have informed Mr. Katz that I am more then willing to do so if he will just tell me how to get in touch with him. Mr. Katz is the Senior Director of Marketing at Trump University.
The second by the name of Barry Lenson who is an Executive Editor at Trump U. He was less kind in his response. He called me delusional! I don't blame him, criticism is tough to take especially from a relatively unknown person such as myself when you are part of something with the Trump name on it.
Anyway I took both comments as a true honor to receive and wrote a very in depth response to both Mr. Katz and Mr. Lenson. Check out the orginal post to see their comments and my response.
~ Jack Spirko
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P.S. - I actually think Donald Trump has a pretty good blog, despite the issues pointed out in this article. To be fair I have since posted an article about the positives and the improvements at the Trump Blog. That post is called, - Why Donald Trump Has a Great Blog that is Getting Even Better
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Josef Katz said,
May 17, 2007 @ 11:45 am
Jack, The link with my name is not me. It must be a different Josef Katz.
Chris White said,
May 17, 2007 @ 1:09 pm
Jack, why is your page rank zero? Tell me it’s a fluke.
jspirko said,
May 17, 2007 @ 7:55 pm
Chris,
What page are you looking at this blog is a 4 or a 5 depending on which data center you get the data from. It was a 6 before the Wikipedia Natzi’s found our I was an SEO and therefore concluded all the citations about this blog were spam. Even though I did not put them in myself. They were for my essays on Net Neutrality and WiMax evolution. Wiki sucks!
Josef, the link in the article above is part of an Amazon.com ad product. I may be turning it off soon I am just testing it for now. What it does is create links on words it finds on its own and links to Amazon products.
I will explain it when we talk on the phone.
Jack Spirko