Blogging (along with email marketing) has been one of the most effective tools in growing my business. Here are 12 reasons why I continue to blog after more than eight years of consistent blogging:
1. Because it gives me the perfect platform to help creative entrepreneurs build the businesses of their dreams around the lives they crave to live.
2. Because I can promote my business.
3. Because I love writing.
4. Because it gives me a way to share my story–who I am and why I do what I do.
5. Because I can share my creative passions like watercolor and photography.
6. Because I can give potential customers a way to figure out if we’re the right fit.
7. Because I can do it in pajamas or an Anthropologie romper.
8. Because no one can delete my hard work (unlike on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram of any other social media platform).
9. Because I can provide valuable, consistent content for free.
10. Because I’m in charge and get to make every single decision.
11. Because it’s an inexpensive way to connect to my target market.
12. Because it’s fun!
CreativeLive invited me to share some tips on blogging along with Bonnie from Going Home to Roost, Abby from While She Naps and Kim from Mighty Ugly to help celebrate National Craft Month. We all have two things in common: we’ve all taught a course on the craft channel at CreativeLive and we all blog.
The beauty of asking multiple bloggers about their experiences is that you get to see that there’s no one right way to build a successful blog.
I enjoyed reading all of their answers and I hope you do, too!
Am a multi-talented person and i found out blogging seems to be the easiest way to express myself.
Managing a tech blog and a personal blog currently, i hope to create something bigger in the future when i had a PC.
Nice meeting you april.
*first time of commenting here*
I could sign on to all of your arguments for blogging, and would include because I love documenting and sharing what I make, for myself and for others to be inspired by
I blog because it’s been a very enjoyable thing to do, since back in 2004 when I started writing my first blog.
I do it because it’s a great way to feature my multiple passions which include art, design, writing, teaching, personal development and more.
I do it because it’s a way for me to keep a dialogue with people from all over the world, in my own time and at my own convenience.
I do it because it’s a great testing ground for ideas I want to develop into something larger.
I blog because it’s a creative outlet, because it’s a way to connect and form community, because it’s a way I learn and share who I am!
Started my first blog back in 2008 to support creatively and emotionally my business and me in a hard moment. It was fun and! I met lovely people. My business went through ups and downs, I even changed the media from patchwork to lingerie. I am now setting a new lingerie blog and it is fun again. It gives my business and me a face, media and contacts in such a enjoyable way!
PS Watching your Creativelive “MakeYour Creative Brand Irresistible” course replay now and I love your approach. Values and true self are so important. Thank you!
I had a blog back when blogs were new and all the rage, then I stopped. I recently started my business on Etsy and watched a few Creative Live classes, including yours, and all agree that blogging is very important for business. So here I am, starting again from scratch, learning new things along the way. I still haven’t finished watching your class on blogging, but it has given me so much information that I will apply from now on. Thank you!