Have you ever thought about selling one of your blogs? Well if you have been thinking about selling your gold then you probably considered selling a blog. Both are very valuable.
So, I decided to share some information that I am learning in my own research. That’s right I am thinking about selling one of my blogs in the future. Yet, the posts below are helpful.
Think about preparing your house for sale. It is not an overnight job. This is also true about your blog sale. We need to assess it, prepare it and learn about the sales process. But an interesting thing happens when you about to sell your house. You clean it up and fix it up! Sometimes when you are finished you decide to stay? Well, I suspect when I get ready to sell one of my blogs, it will get cleaned up and fine tuned.
I have also included a book that is sold on Amazon about flipping your blog for cash. The title sounds a bit crude but you get the point.
Now one important note. If you are on a hosted blog platform like Blogger, Live Journal, Yahoo 360 or Wordpress.com YOU CANNOT SELL YOUR SITE. You need to transfer it and self-host it. After all how can we sell that we do not own? Yet, I train folks on the hosted sites to get their feet wet in blogging. But I encourage them to plan to self host those sites in the future.
Here are a few articles to get you thinking. I would love to hear from anyone who has sold their blogs.
Here is the only book I found, so far, on Amazon about selling blogs. I am sure there are others. I have not read this one yet so I cannot give you a review.
You can easily migrate your Blogger blog to the hosted Wordpress.com. Now, note I did not say Wordpress.org. Wordpress.org must be self-hosted. That means you pay for monthly hosting.
Whereas, Wordpress.com is hosted and you do not pay Wordpress.com for hosting the site.
I always refer to Wordpress.com as the homeless shelter. It is great for starting your sitess and getting a good feel for blogging. But at some point you will, hopefully, move to an apartment or a house. Thet would be Wordpress.org.
But Wordpress.com , like Blogger.com will give you instant internet presence. I am thankful for how that has helped me and others.
How many of you are blogging like you handle a hula hoop?
Some of us have forgotten how to hula and seldom consider picking it up again. I have a few blogs that have been neglected. Sure I used to be consistant and kept my stats up like a hula on my hips. But now I need to go back and practice once again.
Some of us get that hula on our hips and as soon as it starts losing momentum and slides down we just don’t know how to scoop down and bring it back up. I got hacked two times. It is not a good thing. I was ready to let that blog go to blog heaven. But then I decided not to give up and picked it up and kept blogging. NOTE: That’s why I am taking Cathy Perkins security workshop to prevent that blog from slipping off my hips again.
I just love the folks at Mashable. They have a great post sharing five Twitter applications for using video. Now these applications can be used to create video tweets but some of them can also be used to manage photos. How cool is that.
I just posted a video this morning using Twiddeo but I am excited about trying the other applications. So enjoy this post featuring Twitter video applications.
I just read where some of the major bugs in Wordpress version 8 have been exterminated by the Wordpress Pest Control. Well, not real bugs but those pesting errors that prevented folks like me from upgrading to the new version.
Now, for those of you who have no clue to what I am talking about. Allow me to explain.
iIf you are using a Wordpress self hosted blog platform you are given the option of upgrading to a new version. Now, there was a time that I found upgrading hard. I downloaded a plug in called wp-upgrade and that was a wonderful thing.
However, more recently, I have started using a really stupidly simple tool on my host called simplescripts. This script is just like the name it is simple. All I do now it go to the control panel of my host, http://www.bloggingforboomers.com/bluehost and click on simple scripts and they prompt me to upgrade. They even give me the option to view my site after it is upgraded to see how it looks. If there is an issue it allows you to go back to the way it was.
Pay close attention to the instructions to deactivate all your plugins before you upgrade. Do not take chances. If you want me to do a short video on this let me know.
Video blogging is also known as vblogging and vlogging. It is becoming more and more popular these days. It is just like posting text to a blog but instead you are posting mini videos.
You can not only create a book with your blogging but use your blog to promote your existing book. Now, that should get your juices flowing.
One of the reasons I am a big fan of creating and fine tuning your categories. Those blog categories can become the chapters for your book! So take a few minutes to review a short video I posted on rosiesblogclass.
I will probably write more about this but here is an excellent blog post by blogger and author, Edwin Crozier. He shares 6 Reasons to blog your book. Be sure to read the comments that were made to his post. They have some meaty insights.
The ever popular and profoundly essential blogging book By Darian Rowse, Problogger, is the result of blog posts.
So, hopefully, this will be enough to get you thinking. Of course if anyone would like to add more insights it would be most welcomed. Meanwhile, DO A BLOG POST NOW!
Do you have an interest in anything you want to share with others? Are you learning something new that you want to document? Are you excited about this new interest and want to keep the thrill alive?
This year I got interested in coin collecting? How? Well I had promised someone for two years I would learn more about coin collecting so I could help her sell her coins. I knew that she could just take them to a dealer but I also knew that it helps if you know a little before you go. Why? Because not all dealers are the same. I did not want her to take a rare coin to a shop and have someone devalue it.
Well, to make a long story short, I started reading books on coin collecting. Then I found a dealer who actually started to teach me about coin collecting. ( I have spoken to several dealers but he has been the best and most patient.) This baby boomer is hooked. I am more hooked on error coins.For me the idea of finding one is better than the lottery.
So what does this mean for you? You can start now to reflect on an interest that you have. What are you reading? What are you learning?What are your learning goals?
Tip#1 If you are reading books on your topics you can share information about those books as an affiliate link in your blog!
Tip#2 If you want to create an ebook or special report you can after several posts by clearing defining your categories and create a pdf document from your posts.
Tip #3 If you are in any social network you can join groups related to your blog interest and send traffic to your site.
So after you read this please reflect on your interests. Remember the more you are learning about that area of interest the more blogging you will do that will reinforce what you learn. Who knows, you just might become an expert.
I am still learning each time I read a Tweet on Twitter or make a mistake. Yet, there are bloggers like Problogger who has mastered some great Twitter techniques. For example, I attempt to post things that folks that follow me might want to hear. But I am careful to take time and retweet interesting tweets that are appearing at that moment.
When you think about it Twitter is just like face to face discussions in a group. When I facilitate a group I am careful to encourage the silent folks in the group to say something. At the same time I try to discourage domination by one or two people in the group.
In addition, most groups work best when the size is small and not huge. So, I am not under compulsion to have a BIG TWITTER LIST.
Well, I never want to be the person who just talks about me, me and more me in a group. Nor, do I want to be the quiet person all the time that does not feel my content has worth. So, those things stay on my mind when I am on Twitter.
Of course, I must admit, sometimes I go on Twitter when I feel like the pixels in my brain are frozen from fatigue. Then Twitter becomes therapy.
This picture reminds me of blogging. This weed is working itself around a steel gate. It has decided that it wants to live. How often do we see our blog dying because of lack of traffic or your decreasing interest or energy?
This weed is a powerful reminder to keep finding ways to hold on to the reason you started blogging. As long as that blog has life on the internet KEEP BLOGGING.
I am challenging myself to start using more of the pictures I am taking in my blogs. The question is why?
Pictures add color and excitement to your blogging. .
You can make comparisions or contrasts with the image and your blog posts
Pictures can motivate you and your reader.
It will motivate you to take more pictures.
Meanwhile, if you want to read a short tutorial on how to add pictures check out one of my sites I use for folks I am coaching when they are just getting started in blogging. In this post I am using Wordpress.com and the info works on Wordpress.org also. If you want help with Blogger let me know.
