{"id":43876,"date":"2017-02-02T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/?p=43876"},"modified":"2017-02-02T10:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T18:03:04","slug":"whyd-you-start-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moosepeterson.com\/blog\/whyd-you-start-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"“Why’d You Start the Blog?”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alaskan Moose
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The questions the hit my email box are humdingers at times! And that’s why the website was first launched back in 1995. In my infinite wisdom, I figured if I’d create this new thing, a website (we were the first wildlife photography website in the world) where I could answer everyone’s questions, then my daily email load would go away. Stupid me! Coming up on 4000pgs now, the website demonstrates that all the answers aren’t out there because as it should be, we keep asking new questions. That search for knowledge, that thirst for learning for many is stronger than ever and we turn to the internet seeking those answers. But it’s kinda like The Curse of Oak Island<\/a>, you keep digging, get mud all over yourself only to discover rather than finding an answer, you’ve got two new questions.<\/p>\n

The one reason we did NOT start the website or blog is for our business. Yes, it brings in many of you great folks to our events and workshops and while that is part of our business, it’s not our business. Our business is the selling of photography mainly in the editorial and commercial markets. While many of our clients come to the website to get a laugh out of Moose, when it comes to buying images, they use the old fashion method, the phone. And when we go looking for new clients, I don’t post a new photo here or Facebook or Tweeter, we use the old fashion method, the phone. So then why keep adding to the website, why keep doing all these posts you ask? On some days don’t think I ask myself that very same question out loud, a lot, cause it’s a chore. It all comes back to the need to make a difference, perhaps help someone with a lesson I’ve learned on my travels and to give back to an industry that has given Sharon and I so much. The funny thing is, the reason why I started the website way back when, to decrease my emails, ya, that didn’t work out so well. It only increased them which goes to show you how much I know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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