I’m glad you liked the post…and like you, am glad it’s Friday.

Have a great weekend.

Barbara’s last blog post..And You Say You Are Not A Gambler

I love reading about topics that are familiar but done so in a new, interesting twist, like what you’ve done here.

It really points out how our languages, choice of words, points of view all present information and experiences that are at the same time digested differently by different people. And yet, sometimes we’re all talking about the same thing, and we all understand it at the same time.

ooh, I think I’m rambling…must have been a long week, yay for Friday!

Thanks for the insight, and yes, we “gamble” all the time: jobs, relationships, child-rearing, etc.

Our biggest gamble should probably always be, “Live the life you want (without hurting others).”

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Patience is very important. At first when I stated blogging, I just looked at where I would be in six months, but then I realized if I was going to be serious about blogging, I had to look way into the future. It changed my perspective, and probably also changed the way I blog.

Hi Ian,

We have talked about this before with regard to your blog, and how it may be helping others, but they are not sharing due to the subject matter. If you are getting traffic, and find they are digging through those old posts, that’s a good sign. In actuality, I can see those old posts becoming even more popular based on the current economy.

I think I would dig a little deeper and figure out how your visitors are finding those older posts. If it is due to search strings, I would write another post, using those (or similar) keyword phrases, and then link to the old posts.

You are definitely helping others, however, without them sharing their thoughts, you’ll just have to “believe”.

Hi Deb,

With regard to monetizing your blog, I would so a little of that now. Why? it takes time for earnings to build up. If you use Google AdSense, they don’t even send you a check until you have earned $100…with some ads paying only cents, this takes awhile. (Watch for a post about that subject here within the next week).

If you are interested in free lancing, I let your audience know. In your side bar, you could put a little “ad” type block, plus do some legwork of your own, enter writing contests, do guest posts (I know you have done one), etc…Sell yourself.

Like Catherine said, you can get a WordPress blog for free, but it is on a WP hosted account. To get yourself familiar with how WP works, you could sign up for a free account (using a different domain name), and see what you think. This would entail a time investment on your part. However, before doing that, I would suggest you watch the video tutorials on Business Blogging 101 and see for yourself what WP is all about.

At this point, I wouldn’t worry about your RSS feed, as you can do a redirect when the time comes.

Your fiction post may not be working since that is totally different than your normal posts, thus changing the message on your blog. Stick with what works and gets readers.

For practicing writing, I would use either a “word” type program, off of your blog site. Save your work, and it could become part of your “portfolio” Or, have a category on your blog, that is your fiction work.

In the past I wrote how bloggers have ADD…they love to read other blogs, however, they want it to be a quick read (or a long one that holds their attention),….then they move on to the next one. With that being said though, and based on your comments, I think your visitors are more moms like you, or parents of children with special needs.

Hi Hunter,

You said: “To me that’s very different from gambling in a casino, where you’re basically paying people to take your money.”

With blogging, we are basically giving away our time by the amount of it we invest in our blogs. Our time has “value”, but too often, we don’t think that way.

We need to ask: “When I blog, do I receive “something” for the time I’m putting into it? It may not be a monetary return. In fact, it could be priceless.

Each blogger has to answer that for themselves.

Barbara’s last blog post..And You Say You Are Not A Gambler

Deb, you might consider writing children’s ebooks. That way you’re still writing your fiction, but distributing it in big chunks once in a while instead of small chunks weekly. People who aren’t into fiction can easily ignore an occasional ebook, and the ones who like your fiction would probably prefer to read a full story instead of a snippet.

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I will wait on the Wordpress thing. I don’t see the point of putting too much money in until I think I might be seeing some kind of return. (But I’ll check out the magazine part you suggested.)

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