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Please share about yourself and your story to enter in blogging?
I have been blogging for MakeUseOf.com professionally since the start of
2010, but I have been writing my personal blogs and websites (before
blogs were a thing) since the mid-90s. I had studied social media and
journalism, so it made perfect sense for me to find a tech blog to
freelance for. It was easy to get started and my work there quickly
became my primary source of income.
Now I'm an editor there and I write for all sorts of other publications too, as well as my own professional sites. It's great work and I love it, which is why I recommend it to anyone who can write intelligently on a given topic. It's also really flexible and has allowed me to live in France and have kids around my work, which you definitely can't say about most professions.
It really is the perfect job for travelers and parents of young kids, as it can be done any time of day and can be worked on in fits and starts when you've got a spare moment. I recommend it to lots of new mothers, but they don't seem to believe it's a real job. Can't blame them for being uncertain, but it really does work!
Now I'm an editor there and I write for all sorts of other publications too, as well as my own professional sites. It's great work and I love it, which is why I recommend it to anyone who can write intelligently on a given topic. It's also really flexible and has allowed me to live in France and have kids around my work, which you definitely can't say about most professions.
It really is the perfect job for travelers and parents of young kids, as it can be done any time of day and can be worked on in fits and starts when you've got a spare moment. I recommend it to lots of new mothers, but they don't seem to believe it's a real job. Can't blame them for being uncertain, but it really does work!
How the idea to make your own blog came in your mind? How you found the right people to develop it and what big obstacles you faced?
I'd seen what it was like to work as part of a team for a major
blog, so I knew that I knew most of what it took to run a successful
blog. I just needed to come up with an idea that worked for me and build
it. I tried to think of topics that I found interesting, that would
help people, that had many potential products I could make or affiliate
with in order to make money, and had sufficient interest from the
public.
Eventually I decided to start two blogs based on my own expertise and passions: Online Careerist for remote workers online, and Write Revolution for freelance writers online. Write Revolution was always intended to be written by multiple people, so I brought on several of my freelance writing friends from the outset. With Online Careerist, I wanted it to be primarily written by me, but with occasional guests. The biggest obstacle for both blogs was getting them off the ground. There's a lot of hustling, monetizing and promoting that goes on besides the writing, and it's really hard to keep writing at the start when you know there's no-one reading yet. But you have to ignore that and think of what people will see when they eventually do read your blog. Then you can push on and write great content, and get back to promoting and monetizing.
Eventually I decided to start two blogs based on my own expertise and passions: Online Careerist for remote workers online, and Write Revolution for freelance writers online. Write Revolution was always intended to be written by multiple people, so I brought on several of my freelance writing friends from the outset. With Online Careerist, I wanted it to be primarily written by me, but with occasional guests. The biggest obstacle for both blogs was getting them off the ground. There's a lot of hustling, monetizing and promoting that goes on besides the writing, and it's really hard to keep writing at the start when you know there's no-one reading yet. But you have to ignore that and think of what people will see when they eventually do read your blog. Then you can push on and write great content, and get back to promoting and monetizing.
Can blogging really change someone`s life?
Yes, I think so. Blogging requires you to always be learning about
whatever your writing about, developing your writing skills and growing
as a person. But aside from that, it can bring in an income that's not
related to going to a physical location each day. This means it has the
potential to turn around the lives of people stuck at home: disabled,
teens, and parents with kids to look after. It can also give you the
freedom to travel. So, yes, as it can take you from being unable to work
for a living to making a decent income: That's changing a life.
What are your favorite Internet marketing tools?
I love tools that make social media easier and more effective. I use
IFTTT, Buffer, Tweetdeck and Hootsuite to manage my postings to Twitter,
Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn. I love RiteTag for showing me which
hashtags were actually being used. Also, ClicktoTweet is fantastic for
getting your blog readers to share ready-made Tweets.
What is your daily schedule? and how do you maintain your tasks?
My schedule revolves around school hours, but generally when I get
started I will spend the first hour doing whatever has been bugging me
and thus seems most important. Only then will I check email and start
doing the regular tasks. I figure that keeps things progressing, instead
of only doing what I feel like I should do.
Blogging have different definition for different person. What is it for you?
For some people, blogging is all about having your own site and making
money from it, through adverts, affiliates or associated products and
services. For others, they skip all that and go straight to freelance
blogging for the bigger blogs and getting paid directly for each post.
Personally, I started trying to do the former, paused all that and went
freelance, then went back to running my own sites with my own income
streams associated with that. Unsurprisingly, that feeds back into my
freelance blogging too and gets me more opportunities through different
types of blogs. In the end, these days all aspects of blogging all very
much intertwined.
Which are your favorite blogs?
I love and write for so many blogs, and the answer to this
question entirely depends on the topic I want to read. At the moment I'm
really loving career-focused blogs, like these:
- https://www.themuse.com/
- http://www.levo.com/
- http://businessinsider.com/
- http://www.inc.com/
- http://www.forbes.com/
How much time do you spend on social media promotion and SEO of your blog?
I have set up a lot of automation for social promotion of my blogs, but
even so I still need to adjust things with my automation regularly which
usually takes a bit of time. I also do manual promotion and associated
tasks every afternoon for an hour or so, including commenting on blogs
and forums, and looking at potential freelance and guest posts I might
do.
How much time do you spend for blogging daily?
I feel as if I never spend any time actually writing blog posts anymore
(but I do) as so much of the work is in images for sharing and in doing
the marketing. I guess if you add up all the writing and marketing I'm
putting in a couple of hours a day.
Message for Readers:
Don't give up on your blog before it's had a chance to grow. Even if you
let the blog posts slide for a while, keep your domain name active and
build up a dedicated social following by posting things relevant to your
niche to each social channel. And while you build up a following and a
name for yourself, write for bigger blogs and get paid for your time.
You'll also learn a lot by working with a variety of editors.
It was a great interview with Angela Alcorn from Onlinecareerist.
eAskme team wish her best
of luck and bright future. Her journey as a blogger is an inspiration and like she said Don`t give up on your blog. If
you think that it is impossible, think again. You
have the ability to do anything and be what you want to be. So if you
still waiting to start a blog, I
must say you should start it
right now.
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