Why should you start a blog in the first place?
Step 1 – Find your passion and write a mission statement
Step 2 – Discover your tribe
Step 3 – Develop a memorable brand
Step 4 – Choose a web host
Step 5 – Setup your hosting account
Step 6 – Pick a blogging platform
Step 7 – Create compelling content
It was 2008…
I was unemployed, recently divorced, and searching for a passion project that had escaped me for my 50+ years on this planet.
Jump forward to today and my website, that you are on right now, has had over 16 million readers.
I don’t say that to brag. I say that because perhaps the craziest thing about this whole journey is that I wasn’t a “writer” in the traditional sense, and from a technical perspective I didn’t know the first thing about how to start a blog.
I used a spare $10 to start a blog and ended up growing it into something that others took notice of. I learnt about how to do all of that along the way. From defining my message, buying a domain name, figuring out this whole hosting business, growing a social media following, and eventually finding a way to make some money from the whole thing.
In the beginning the one thing that held me back from starting was the fear of not knowing how or where to start. The fear of not being good enough. The fear of failure.
Today I want to help you overco… Read More