Blogging and The New Economy Experiment Part 1
I had read only one blog until about three months ago. That blog was a family member’s who set up a blog to display baby pictures and keep everyone updated on the baby. A link to the blog was sent to us in an email and we bookmarked it for future visits, so easy even a caveman could do it. I heard about the political and celebrity blogosphere in the news but it never interested me enough to check it out.
I had an idea for an online business and ran it by a friend who has had a few online businesses. He said no matter what you get into you have to do your research and you have to move fast in the digital world. There are thousands of websites going up everyday so don’t just stand there, get going.
I took his advice and started downloading the podcast Internet Business Mastery which boasted being the #1 podcast for internet business. Hey why not start at the top? Jason Van Orden of the show recommended a blog for a website because for the non-techie its easy to update and is extremely search engine friendly. And out of the choices of blog software, he recommended wordpress. Not knowing any difference, I just chose it and got started figuring the most important thing was to be continuously moving forward.
The next recommendation took longer to accomplish than I ever anticipated and that was to host my blog on my own domain. I posted the job on elance and it got done in about three weeks after two weeks of trying to do it on my own. Unless you know what you’re doing, I highly recommend hiring someone to set up your blog if you’re going to put it on your own domain. I didn’t get the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org so I set up a blog at wordpress.com first. You can still find it at theneweconomyexperiment.wordpress.com. I basically copied the first two posts over to this domain to get started.
