As some of you know, I’ve been working from home for a while now.
When I think back to my days in the corporate environment, I’m amazed that I used to do it at all. Driving all over the UK, 14 hour days, week after week away from home…
Working from home means my life now is a lovely combination of spending time with my family and working.
However, for many people making the jump to working from home for the first time, there are a number of things to consider before taking the plunge. I thought I’d draft some of these down in the hope that sharing my own experiences may be useful for the new blog businessperson…
Over the New Year I’ve been so busy with the Income Blogging Guide Membership Course launch I’ve not written any ‘reflecting’ or ‘looking forward’ type blog posts.
You know the sort of ones where you talk about your mistakes and success in 2009 and what you hope to achieve in 2010.
I will get around to writing such blog posts because 2009 was a life changing year for me and I am hoping for a great 2010.
But today I want to discuss ‘comments’.
I know that sometimes it’s really hard to write articles that grab reader’s attention and generate more traffic at the same time. Online users would become frequent visitors if they see that your site contains useful and important information.
It’s even harder to get people to comment!
This week I had a guest post accepted over at my blogging buddy, Case Stevens blog, Affordable Internet Marketing.
My blog post is entitled, “How Do I Get People To Read And Comment On My Blog?” and so far it has attracted a much higher percentage of comments compared to RSS subscribers than Darren Rowse and Yaro Starak.
Guest Post By Gerlaine Reliford
You are here at this post, because either you were intrigued by the magnetic headline or you are really interested in how to write a better blog post. One way or the other in the next few minutes you are going to learn how to write a more effective blog post. By effective, I mean a post that gets the reader to read past the first paragraph and possibly peruse your blog further.
Focus on Your Reader
Read that topic heading again: Focus on your reader.
So this is what happened this week:
The ‘up’ times
Outsourcing
I decided to employ someone and ‘outsource’ some of the administrative and everyday tasks associated with my online business.
I was spending so much time doing all the things you have to do to keep several sites up and running, that I was finding no time to create any more of my own products.
So, this week I have been handing over work to my new employee.
I’ve been creating videos to help her quickly come up to speed and I must say, the early stages in the ‘partnership’ are turning out pretty well.
Last week I started my weekly post of my ‘up’ and ‘down’ online experiences: The internet marketing bad times
So this is what happened this week:
The ‘up’ times
Free guide – How to build a profitable blog in 45 minutes
I’ve received some great feedback on my free guide, “How to build a profitable blog in 45 minutes” and this week I got round to updating it. So I’m pleased as punch!
Blogging and Traffic
I’ve noticed that the big bloggers like johnchow.com, problogger.net blog almost everyday, so this week I decided to do the same.
Simon Cowell in normal mood!
We all have good experiences, days, weeks, times – whatever we wish to call them
And we have bad times, don’t we?
During my working week, I experience both and rather than just sharing theory, knowledge and advice, I thought I’d make a change and share with you my good and bad ‘working’ times I have experienced this week.
But rather than good and bad, I’m going to call then my ‘up’ times and my ‘down’ times!
Why?
Hi, Andrew Rondeau here and this blog, my blog, will not lie to you. I will give it to you straight.This blog is about blogging, the Internet and sharing my experiences and advice on 
