Are you a Tech-Frustrated Fellow Blogger?
If so, WELCOME. I welcome you with open arms, an open heart, a bit of humor and a deep, deep empathy to the newbies trying to make money online. So let’s get to it.
It’s been almost two weeks since uploading Wordpress.org onto a hosting account and buying a domain name to have this blog hosted by a hosting company and therefore safe because it’s paid for. That is – the hosting and domain name was chosen by me and I paid for it. Rule one – never open a free blog for a serious project or serious attempt at blogging. Free blogs run ads on the blogs but the worst part is they can take your blog down – and take it away. You know – bye bye blog! You must decide if this is worth it to you. Now that was an issue that did not need mulling over – no question, it was a blog that I paid for – which is the hosting and the domain name. So I dowloaded the Wordpress.org - not the free Wordpress.com.
So, here is a Wordpress.org blog uploaded and after staring at the dashboard, for what seemed like forever and ever and ever… I decided to purchase a theme called Thesis. I took one look at the ease of use of that theme – and purchased it. Wow, what a great decision. I thought – Hmmm…. this purchase will enable me to start my first blog. And so here we are – first blog, first post… albeit one step at a time. After all, I’ve been reading about this and watching videos on internet marketing and blogging for close to three years. How hard could a blog be? And additionally, this theme made it easy. This Wordpress theme had videos that showed you how – with a click of your mouse you could move columns in the blog, change fonts, simply do amazing things with such ease. In fact, I watched all the videos on what it could do more than three times. Ok, they had only three or four videos that lasted minutes each – but heck, I took notes. Ok, I didn’t take notes but really paid attention. But the saga continues…
With Thesis Theme installed it simply was still a blog without even a post. I had writers block along with Internet Marketing Overload Block? Could be. I’m sure it will not be long until someone diagnoses this ‘disease’ of not understanding the how to do this and why so many develop what I like to call – Deer In the Headlights Syndrome. In fact, there are too many names to call this ‘mystery can’t get it online stuff’ and that is why this blog exists. This will be an extraordinary attempt to remove all the little holes in internet marketing – but let’s just start with the blog for now. Every step taken will be methodically written down here in laymans terms so you can understand it – all of it – and video to follow. Nothing will be left out. I’ll be one step ahead – and we will start conquering this thing one day at a time.
But stay tuned. You’ve probably thought of outsourcing your headaches, haven’t you? Well, tomorrow you must hear about the adventurous search to find local help and the help I finally did receive. In addition, let’s take your first steps to getting your blog up. I’ll go over what I’ve done to host it – and all the who, what, where, when and how to get you to set up your first blog. We’ll go through it all – in baby steps.
Are you ready? I hope so… because we are going to have some fun using our huge passion for success along with the intent to earn our first dollar online!
Susan Naftali
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