My Blogging Timeline - The Journey so Far - Part 2

Following on from yesterdays post - Part 1…

There were 2 blogs that I found that helped me more than the rest (and still do), and first introduced me to structuring blogs from a business point of view, planning them and promoting them using business and marketing techniques. They are Problogger.net by Darren Rowse and Entrepreneurs-journey.com by Yaro Starak. They are both packed with help and information about blogging, from their wealth of experience and knowledge. I also subscribed to the Blog Traffic King newsletter through Entrepreneurs-journey.com giving tips on traffic generation for your blog.

These were all pieces of the jigsaw but there were still gaps, I wanted somebody to take me by the hand and guide me through. While trying to find more information, I was finding it hard to keep up with the posting and marketing that I wanted to do. I was wondering if what I was doing was helping me or not, and that all added to the frustration. As I said early I was also subscribed to some internet marketers newsletters, and they were telling me that to get anywhere I needed help, I couldn’t do it on my own without a lot of trouble and it would take a long time to achieve anything. Great! They were saying I needed a mentor, and that happened to be them. But I didn’t want a mentor for internet marketing in general I just wanted one for blogging. Wouldn’t that be great, someone who could show me step by step how to build a successful blog. But there was no one out there.

Then in March I received an interesting edition of the Blog Traffic King newsletter, Yaro Starak was asking if anyone would be interested in a blog mentoring program ran by him. Would I! would have been an understatement. I just had to wait and see if it came off. I had to wait till June when Blog Mastermind was launched and I joined up straight away.

I’ve been in the program a month now and I am absolutely bowled away by the information and help I have received (I will go into more about Blog Mastermind in another article). Only one of my original 3 blogs still survives - Create Blogs. I used it as a starting point and somewhere to practice my newly acquired skills. But you wouldn’t recognise it after having the Blog Mastermind treatment. That’s why I have moved it from Blogger to Wordpress and it has now turned into the blog you are reading today - Build a Blog.

And that’s where I am now, enjoying the community, help and information I receive from Blog Mastermind and it’s members. I am looking forward to the future and creating and building my photography blog that I have wanted to do for so long. But I now know I have the support, firm foundations and structure that I looked for, and craved for so long. So here’s to my new challenges and their rewards, I’ll keep you updated. I’ll keep blogging and I’ll see you soon.

Mandy

If you would like to find out more, or follow my journey with blogs and blogging then you may like to visit Build a Blog