Having visited visited your blog many times (not always commenting), I can tell by your writings that blogging is a passion of yours. You interact with your commenters and through your words, show much joy.

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Hi Nez,

Adding blogging to family life and self employment can get tricky. Isn’t it amazing how we find time for it, even though it eats into our sleep time. All of a sudden, we find ourselves surviving on an hour or two less sleep each night.

You will be one of “those” one day. It’s just a matter of patience, perseverance, dedication, and the belief you can do it.

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As someone who is self-employed, I then have to ask myself is what I’m doing detrimental to my business (as in taking time away from business-related tasks), or is it eating into my time with my family.

The answer usually is it’s eating into my sleep time

And no, it’s not easy — I admire someone who can post high quality content on a regular basis for a long period of time.

I hope to be one of those one day.

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Have you defined what success in blogging means to you? I have not written it down, but in my mind it would have to be a blog that is popping (one that has regular readers that participate).

Are you enjoying the journey? Absolutely!

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I agree we are in the early stages of blogging. Many people do go online to get the news, or to find an answer, but millions are still dependent on TV, books, magazines and the newspaper. Won’t they be surprised when they realize they can have a conversation with the author of the “story”?

At this point in time, I agree most commenters are other bloggers, commenting to bring exposure to their own blog. But getting comments also depends on the subject of the blog. e.g. If a blog supplies recipes, many will print off a recipe, move on, not taking time to comment.

Hi Hunter,

It did take awhile for Canada to get all of their records online. The biggest problem is most genealogy records are translated by volunteers, and after reading thousands of lines of information (of ships manifests), I don’t know how they are/were able to decipher some of the handwritten records. I’m just thankful I found Gramma.

I agree with what you said in reply to Ian’s comment. we will be glad we didn’t wait.

Hi Jodith,

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be able to blog full time?

Your goals are very realistic, and doable. Isn’t it fun when you meet or beat a short term goal, and then set your sights a little higher. That way, they are more attainable.

With your knowledge about Administrative Assistants, I could see you writing a book…maybe an e-book, or teaching classes at your local community college, or even doing some type of YouTube tutorials. I’ll be following your progress, so it will be fun watching what direction your blog takes you.

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My definition of success, long term, is being able to make enough money to do this full time.

Short term, I have a few more manageable goals. At the moment, my initial goals are towards pure traffic. My first goal will be to get 100 unique visitors in a month. Once I achieve that (which may be this month, as a matter of fact, I will shoot for 500 uniques in a month.

After that, I will probably start looking at including subscriptions into my goals, but I haven’t looked that far ahead yet. Right now, I’m just trying to get the blog on people’s radar screen and start driving a bit of traffic there. I’m concentrating on regular, quality updates targeted at my chosen audience, and SEO optimization, since a good bit of my content will appeal to persons in other populations besides my targeted audience.

This particular project is too new for me to be frustrated with it yet, and I still have quite a few ideas on marketing the website.

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