It all depends. What is your reason for starting a community blog? What do you hope to accomplish or gain? How much time and effort are you willing to invest? These are individual questions that I have asked myself a hundred times. I guess all bloggers have high’s and low’s. There is no difference when [...]
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If you have just found this site, I thought I would do a re-cap and summarize what I’m trying to accomplish here on bloggerlens.com. I publish a hyperlocal site in Monroe, N.C., monroescoop.com. Some call sites like mine hyperlocal blogs. Some call them citizen journalism sites. Whatever you prefer to call it, it’s a site [...] This article will be short and sweet, but very important to your hyperlocal blog. Twitter. Plain and simple. Go to Twitter and sign up. Start using it. There are a zillion articles written about Twitter, so I will not go into the details here. It’s easy enough to find out, just Google it. Twitter will send [...] I would like to take a little more time with you today to talk some more about your selection of your domain name. If you missed the first article, here is the link again. Selecting your Hyperlocal web domain name. It’s important to select a name in which you will or can dominate the search engines. [...] Is it expensive to become a hyperlocal blogger? I probably can’t afford it even if I want to start my own community site. The first answer is NO! You probably already have what you need to start hyperlocal blogging. Your biggest expense will be your time. Time is valuable and you success will somewhat depend [...] In my case, as someone building a community blog, in fact I’m actually trying to create my own job. We all have a story and I won’t boar you with mine right now but I’m at a point where I want to create my own job that will carry me for years to come. It’s [...] This article is a followup from my last where we talked about getting your own hyperlocal domain name. I gave this some thought and I would like to recommend that you do a little additional work. The good thing is that what I’m going to ask you to do is FREE! I don’t know about [...] I wrote about time commitment in my last article. Once you clear this hurdle in your mind you can move forward. I believe an important consideration will be what to call your site and selection of a domain name. I do not believe a domain name will make or break your site but I think [...] Making decisions are sometimes hard for all of us. Especially since it’s not always easy to predict the outcome. Most of us fear failure. All of us dream of success. Making the decision to leap into hyperlocal blogging was not an easy decision for me and I doubt it will be an easy decision for [...] I’m a hyperlocal blogger in Monroe, NC. My name is Steve Sherron. The road I travelled to get here is pretty long. I’ll talk about that as time goes on. Briefly, I took an early retirement after 24 years in a corporate job. I took an early retirement in 2006 to pursue real estate development [...] |
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