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2 QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE STARTING A BLOG

ByGnomeAngel

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There’s only 2 questions that you need to ask yourself before starting a blog – it’s that simple. My hope is that by thinking about these questions and formulating your answers you’ll save yourself a lot of heartache and time.

A bit about my blogging journey

I’ve been blogging for over 11 years and since the joining Instagram and getting to know people on there I’ve had a lot of people ask me for advice about blogging. Now, I’m no expert but I do love learning (and I try to learn something new about blogging every day).

I love learning about the things that interest me and blogging is a big interest of mine. Over the years I’ve attended workshops, courses, events and read a book or two about blogging.  I’ve written over 1,400 posts on this site alone, not to mention the countless posts I wrote on Livejournal before buying my own domain.

Blog
noun: blog; plural noun: blogs
– a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis.

Over the years I’ve blogged about everything from interior design, stationery trends, our IVF journey and lately it’s been all about my passion for creating through quilting.

I love blogging. Love it! (Although there’s been periods where I’ve really struggled to keep the passion alive.) The thing that I love most about it is the community that grows around your blog. I love sharing and connecting with people and for me the blog helps me to do that.

I’m still learning and growing and formulating my goals for my blog. It’s half the fun of it!

I know I’m not alone, that there’s people out there that want to know about starting a blog, how to improve their blogs, how to grow their communities and what the heck is ‘search engine optimisation’!

Over the coming weeks I’m going to share what I’ve learned so far, the places I go to for advice and some handy hints, tips and tricks to help you grow and reach your blogging goals. The beauty of it – I’m still trying to reach my goals so we’ll be on the journey together.

Be warned though, it’s a never ending cycle there’s always that next bigger goal to reach!

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  2. Great tips Angie. It is always important to ask why you want to start a blog. I had a friend come up to me and say she was going to start a blog so she could get hosted invites. I remember telling her if that was her reason she wasn’t going to succeed. She went ahead and opened a blog, wrote one post and gave up because she found it hard… I guess if you truly love something, and do it full heartedly, opportunity eventually follows. But to create a blog solely to gain something but not want to work for it, is never a good start.

    1. Thanks Rose. I agree – it’s a lot of hard work (with little monetary reward) to be putting in on something you don’t truly love. But I think that’s like anything with life you’ll succeed where your passion and drive combine. I’m really excited to see where the next chapter of all this goes and I’m so happy that you’re on the journey too! 🙂

    1. Any time 🙂 If there’s anything in particular you’d like help with, questions you’d like answered or just want to know more about something just leave me a comment or send me an email via my contact page and I’ll do my best to help. 🙂

    1. It’s funny how the evolution happens. I think most bloggers do it – start with one thing and end up somewhere else completely. Will be interesting to see where we’re at in another 5 years. 🙂

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