Blogosis

So I just got www.justindupre.com online. Yeah, its another blog authored by me. This one is about freelancing, and more specifically, freelance writing because that is the only type of freelance work I do. Check it out if you are thinking about getting into the business of freelancing.

Anyways, it wasn’t easy setting up this blog, and any newbs out there to blogging should know that it isn’t all sugar and candy. There are blog themes to discuss,  content you should prepare beforehand, marketing tactics, and hours and hours of time will be needed to do all this. Setting up Justin Dupre.com took me about 8 hours from searhing through themes to getting the couple posts and pages up with plug-ins and all the other blogging necessities.

Having a blog is a time user. You need to update it regularly, care for its aesthetics, write posts, configure it for more traffic, reply to comments and emails and all sorts of other tasks. So before you start a blog, just make sure you are prepared for this amount of time you will need to work on it.

Even if you aren’t the most free person in the world, logged down by work, school or other activities, there are several ways you can still maintain a blog. Some of the most popular blogs on the net only update once or twice a week. Try setting aside 1 hour on the weekend just to blog. Blog durig your work break, or during a boring class that you won’t gain extra knowledge from (listen to your math lessons though. Working on my websites has made that grade bad. Really, really bad. Heh). Write posts down when you don’t have access to a computer and type them later.

Eventually, you’ll get into the groove of things and be blogging faster than a pro. Or, you might decide this isn’t the path for you. Either way, it is still time well spent as it can help you learn more about yourself as well as time management

Goals for Blogosis:

• · Get a custom, original, Wordpress theme
• · Create an active community where my posts get at least 10 comments each
• · Post at least once a day
• · Get submissions for guest posts (at least 1 a week)
• · Run weekly contests
• · Make $400 dollars a month from Blogosis

I will need a custom, professionally done theme if I want this blog to be truly magnificent, so when I make enough money I will certainly get that done. I want this blog to be active, so by the end of the year I hope to be seeing plenty of comments. I will always post at least once a day, even if I don’t have access to a computer, I’ll always schedule blog articles. I want to start getting some guest bloggers up on Blogosis. Blogging is a huge topic, and I want every area of it covered. So, if you want an article published on ‘The Process of a Blog,’ please email me at justindupre@blogosis.com. I also want to start offering weekly contests, alongside my big monthly giveaway contest. Hopefully, I can obtain this last goal within 2 months. $400 dollars would feed me, clothe me, and pay for my rent. It would take a lot of pressure off of my loan situation. Right now I am borrowing about 20,000 dollars a year for college, if I can cut that in half even, my future would be much more certain.

Subscription Goals:

• · 300 subscribers
• · 100 email subscribers

I am just studying the numbers I have now, and think these numbers are well within reason. After about, what, 3 weeks of blogging, I’ve built up a subscribership of 35 and 15 of those are by email. If that keeps on track, I will have well over 300 subscribers by the end of 2008.

Personal Goals:

• · Make enough money to bring my sister to Thailand (about $1600)
• · Create my own Wordpress theme
• · Make money affiliate marketing on new domains
• · Gain 10 pounds

I really want to make around 1600 dollars in order to bring my sister to Thailand. I miss her more than I’ve ever missed anyone, and I really want her to see what it’s like being on the other side of the world. She deserves it. I eventually want to learn enough coding to be able to develop my own wordpress themes by the end of the year. Luckily my college offers courses that may help me. I am just now getting into affiliate marketing since Adsense seems to have failed me. I am working on another blog, this one will be for a specific type of product. As for my last personal goal, I think I am a bit underweight. I just want to look a little heavier, haha.

That is a summary of my goals for 2008. Did you post your goals on your blog? Send a link on a comment so I can check them out!

Don’t forget the Blogosis giveaway! It is coming up soon!