My Poor Self Needed a Blog (you may send money as well as sympathies)
If you’ve read my About page, you know I’m a little crazier than most. Oh, I do mean that literally. And when my poor brain/ body/ heart was attempting to reintegrate into the rat race, my hubby thought I would enjoy a blog for the following reasons(I, however, had absolutely NO idea what a blog was):
- no pressure - you blog when you want, what you want, how you want
- no cost (we already had a website and domain name)
- brainy - he knows that I melt into a little pathetic heap if I have to read Dr. Seuss and Dora books all. day. long.
- it’s writing! hello? Can you say therapy?
- Money. Yeah. I’m one of those. I got into it for the money. I think I had google adsense ads on here for a total of 6 months-maybe more. Keep in mind it took me about 3 months to learn HOW to get the google ads on my site in the first place. And I think I made…. are ya ready for it? ….$0.12. No, no. That’s not even per hour. Not per day either - good guess though. That’s ummmm.. total. All 6 months or so. Yeah, under Marketing Genius - there’s my picture.
Are you on the fence about blogging?
Questions to ask yourself:
1. Do you want to be RICH? Yeah. Better start right away.
2. Do you like writing? Cause, in case you haven’t noticed, its words, words, and more words, although video blogs are gaining popularity too.
3. Do you have privacy ishews? I don’t really care if anyone sees my craziness or life as life is at the moment. But for some generations (not my Mom’s or anything) privacy is a big deal. There is a thing about airing dirty laundry. Who doesn’t love that fresh scent? I simply don’t get it. A blog that inspired me right away was We are THAT Family because she airs the dirty laundry so to speak, but also is never demeaning (like me) and rarely sarcastic (like me) and is always positive (like me! ha.). So if you want a good example of a blog, check out hers.
4. Do you know all there is to know about Vulcans and Captain Kirk? No? You’ll fit right in. I didn’t know the difference between a host server and a domain name. Seriously. But I also had a lot of time to figure it out. So yeah, I’ve been blogging for a year and a half, however, I’ve just started figuring it out in the last 5 or 6 months.
5. Do you have a niche? I have a niche market on my other site - my Gluten Free Foodie site, and that does get more visitors than here. This market - the mom blogger - is pretty well inundated with Mom bloggers, so don’t do it if you want the fame. You’re gonna have to do something more interesting that THAT for fame. Go snatch Paris Hiltons purse or something useful like that.
In the beginning I had one blog. It was tibbles.net/blog. Catchy, no? Anywho. I posted all my parenting wisdom and gluten free recipes. Then it occurred to me through some stroke of brilliance, that those who came here to find a gluten free casserole recipe may not be interested in the pee and poop conversations (how cute!) that I was having with my children. And that I almost felt different when I was posting recipes - it was more formal, I could be propheshhhh, profeshhhh, profeshonal. Thus, my second blog was born - completely different focus, different market, different money making opportunities. On that one I’ve made $120 plus an apron, reusable shopping bag, business cards, and spatula. It’s a very nice spatula. :) I’m not holding my breath that I’m gonna get rich over there anytime soon.
Another great bloggy question by Nancy,
Concerning the giveaways you sponsor, do the sponsors with the giveaway items first contact you or do you contact them (and then proceed from there)?
ROTFLMAO
“WELL, (insert sexy deep announcer voice here), you see, I beat them off with sticks so that I don’t have to worry about this problem.”
When I give something away, it is purely to encourage a mom, or to lure more people to read my nonsense. And, sob, it comes out of, sob, pocket. Sob.
Now, this brings me to something about who reads my blog (Hi Nancy!) I don’t know who reads of my real-life friends and family, and sometimes I prefer to keep it that way. If I knew that some were reading it, who I just really didn’t like, I wouldn’t feel so free to share. But I always have that in the back of my mind, “What if …. read this?” And it gives me a good guideline to know what to post and how to post. When it comes to the kids, I ask, “What if their teacher or future boss reads this?” And so far, I think it’s fine. What boss or teacher wouldn’t think that she has the most devoted mother in the world to be posting all the cute things she does online? And most people who read me are people that I’ve met through their blogs or mine, and it is fun to joke back and forth, or even say a prayer for someone in need.
Blogging has turned into a life changing experience for me now. Not only do I feel more confident, but I think I’m getting better, or at least more practice in writing, which I really like to do. And, it lead me to meet some really great people this year, and EVEN to my present part time job at Desperately Seeking WordPress!
Are you inspired?
My Poor Self Needed a Blog (you may send money as well as sympathies)
If you’ve read my About page, you know I’m a little crazier than most. Oh, I do mean that literally. And when my poor brain/ body/ heart was attempting to reintegrate into the rat race, my hubby thought I would enjoy a blog for the following reasons(I, however, had absolutely NO idea what a blog was):
Are you on the fence about blogging?
Questions to ask yourself:
1. Do you want to be RICH? Yeah. Better start right away.
2. Do you like writing? Cause, in case you haven’t noticed, its words, words, and more words, although video blogs are gaining popularity too.
3. Do you have privacy ishews? I don’t really care if anyone sees my craziness or life as life is at the moment. But for some generations (not my Mom’s or anything) privacy is a big deal. There is a thing about airing dirty laundry. Who doesn’t love that fresh scent? I simply don’t get it. A blog that inspired me right away was We are THAT Family because she airs the dirty laundry so to speak, but also is never demeaning (like me) and rarely sarcastic (like me) and is always positive (like me! ha.). So if you want a good example of a blog, check out hers.
4. Do you know all there is to know about Vulcans and Captain Kirk? No? You’ll fit right in. I didn’t know the difference between a host server and a domain name. Seriously. But I also had a lot of time to figure it out. So yeah, I’ve been blogging for a year and a half, however, I’ve just started figuring it out in the last 5 or 6 months.
5. Do you have a niche? I have a niche market on my other site - my Gluten Free Foodie site, and that does get more visitors than here. This market - the mom blogger - is pretty well inundated with Mom bloggers, so don’t do it if you want the fame. You’re gonna have to do something more interesting that THAT for fame. Go snatch Paris Hiltons purse or something useful like that.
In the beginning I had one blog. It was tibbles.net/blog. Catchy, no? Anywho. I posted all my parenting wisdom and gluten free recipes. Then it occurred to me through some stroke of brilliance, that those who came here to find a gluten free casserole recipe may not be interested in the pee and poop conversations (how cute!) that I was having with my children. And that I almost felt different when I was posting recipes - it was more formal, I could be propheshhhh, profeshhhh, profeshonal. Thus, my second blog was born - completely different focus, different market, different money making opportunities. On that one I’ve made $120 plus an apron, reusable shopping bag, business cards, and spatula. It’s a very nice spatula. :) I’m not holding my breath that I’m gonna get rich over there anytime soon.
Another great bloggy question by Nancy,
Concerning the giveaways you sponsor, do the sponsors with the giveaway items first contact you or do you contact them (and then proceed from there)?
ROTFLMAO
“WELL, (insert sexy deep announcer voice here), you see, I beat them off with sticks so that I don’t have to worry about this problem.”
When I give something away, it is purely to encourage a mom, or to lure more people to read my nonsense. And, sob, it comes out of, sob, pocket. Sob.
Now, this brings me to something about who reads my blog (Hi Nancy!) I don’t know who reads of my real-life friends and family, and sometimes I prefer to keep it that way. If I knew that some were reading it, who I just really didn’t like, I wouldn’t feel so free to share. But I always have that in the back of my mind, “What if …. read this?” And it gives me a good guideline to know what to post and how to post. When it comes to the kids, I ask, “What if their teacher or future boss reads this?” And so far, I think it’s fine. What boss or teacher wouldn’t think that she has the most devoted mother in the world to be posting all the cute things she does online? And most people who read me are people that I’ve met through their blogs or mine, and it is fun to joke back and forth, or even say a prayer for someone in need.
Blogging has turned into a life changing experience for me now. Not only do I feel more confident, but I think I’m getting better, or at least more practice in writing, which I really like to do. And, it lead me to meet some really great people this year, and EVEN to my present part time job at Desperately Seeking WordPress!
Are you inspired?