@Sandra Harvey @Robert Hamilton
Your frustration sounds strong, and warranted if you have been at this for over two years. I am at the beginning of the "request journey" full of optimism and excitement that Wix will come through. All I can say is that Wix (in general) has made a product that is superior in its market space and has the potential to acquire significant marketshare from competitors, the 4 sites I have built for owners in the past few months is proof positive. I tested all the competitors and Wix offerings are superior hands down.
Now the Wix Blog. It has enormous potential, you can tell the company and its leadership is aware it wants to offer an option to the blog market, but how committed they are depends on how much value they see in this space. I personally was not a "blog fan" in the past, I could have be jaded by my uniformed position assuming blogs are just for niche people with too much time on their hands. What I have uncovered is the "Blogging Experience" offers a solution for what I consider is the leading reason people surf the web, perhaps only second to eCommerce, and if being honest maybe porn too.
Think about all of social media, it's essentially a Blog, Facebook is a glorified Blog, Twitter a short handed blog, Youtube Channels are a video blog. A Blog by definition is: a regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style. Facebook, Twitter, Youtube Channels, and others have just taken this Blog concept, rebranded it, and made it easy for everyone, everywhere to build their own Blog Page in the form of posts, channels, and pages.
Leadership should be aware of what is next in this cycle. Now that the market is saturated with individuals and opinions of all types across all social media, and we know dissemination of info is instantaneous, consumers are next going to be looking for reputable sites/professionals/outlets to sift through all these individual opinions and provide them the executive summary and supplemental commentary, I see Blogs being able to provide this solution. Leadership should see the writing on the wall and invest all in on Wix Blog, because one day soon it will be more popular and in demand that Wix Shop.
A large portion of small businesses will need a way to provide daily information in an interactive and professional way, outside of the circus atmosphere on social media platforms, and this need can best be served by a Blog format on their small business websites. Its just a matter of: does Wix Leadership see this trend coming and can they get their Blog product to a point where it can lead the way?
Here's the Wix leadership team, maybe you should contact them:
https://investors.wix.com/management
It's a matter of priority, does leadership just want Wix Blog as a listed capability in its marketing material and when experimented with just turns out to be a fraction of what could be, or do they see the value in what is possible with Blogs and how Wix can lead the way for all industries of small business to be a useful tool in this next generation of communication and dissemination of professional and reputable information and opinion?