Still Chatting With Edie
June 22, 2009 by Jamie
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I am still chatting with Edie over at Millionaire Moms Media. If you’d like to see her part of the conversation, head over there and check it out!
Wow, Edie! That’s a great story. I think it’s neat how your blog helped you reach out to others in the same situation as yours. This crazy internet! I can’t believe the lasting friendships I’ve made with it!
She asked me:
Would you mind sharing how you got your start in blogging? Also, can you share why someone who isn’t “new” to blogging chose to be an intern for Moms Talk Network? (We have that in common!) What do you hope to gain out of your experience as an intern?
I was actually really into scrapbooking and owned ScrapLove. A lot of the girls on that site just kind of all decided at the same time to start blogs, so I did too. I signed into blogger–and started typing away! (I have since moved to wordpress on a self hosted site, but I don’t think it even existed, or was at least VERY new when I first started blogging.) Well, when my daughter was very young, I didn’t have time to run an online business, so I sold that website… but kept my blogging one. It’s kind of been an off and on thing for me. Sometimes I get really into blogging, and others I completely forget it even exists.
The reason I decided to tackle the internship even though I already had a blog was that my blog wasn’t accomplishing anything. Basically, the only reader was my dad, and I never really tried to do anything with it, ever. Now that I am working with Kelly, I have put a couple of different ad campaigns, etc. on there, and I have started blogging more regularly. I have also learned to be more honest and forthcoming in my blog. I’ve always been scared to sort of lay it all out there on the internet for so long, because I was worried what people might think, but after seeing some of the things the other girls in my intern group write about–I decided to just go for it. And… you know what?
They were right. When you’re blogging–the more you put it all out there, the more people want to read your stuff.
Now, my question for you Ms. Edie:
I noticed your site has a free ebook. How important is it to a site like yours to offer a free giveaway like that? Is that something moms should do with their blog in order to build a following or get a good email list for newsletters and such?
And, since it’s about social networking… what’s your FAVORITE way to social network?
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