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This is not a guide to the proper, clean way to start your own blog. In fact, the truth is that I am putting this airplane together while flying it.
It has been about 50% helpful and 50% intimidating to read all of the “how-to” guides to start a blog online. At some point it feels like the courses and e-books being sold must tell their audiences that the hottest topic to make a sale is to create your own “how to blog” post and push it out into all of the advertising channels, even if they know nothing more than “Buy a domain, use Bluehost, get WordPress and you’re done. You’re ready to publish.”
I am intrigued at how so many people have discovered the secrets of gaining audiences and making a living online, and yet how so many others can follow their step-by-step (paid!) guidance, and still not excel the same way. But I don’t believe in copy and pasting someone else’s work and insight if you haven’t tried it and tested it for yourself.
So here I am, working through the steps and exposing the messy side of creating a website as I go along.
I thought there might be others swimming in the same kiddie pool of website and WordPress chaos, and that either we can learn together, or my failures will help guide your successes.
What I’ve learned in the first few days of the process is that the guidebooks online are nice, cleaned up versions so as to attract and keep your attention without intimidation.
Tough love coming ‘attchya. The steps and the setup were fantastic at first. Then, out of nowhere, I was hit with a strong dose of “What the heck did I get myself into?!”
In true foot-in-the-door fashion, though, I am knees deep in costs for a domain name and hosting, so the goal is to truck on through and admit all of the faults and flaws along the way. Maybe you will help, maybe you will heckle but either way, I welcome you to join me as I stubbornly insist on adding “build a website and run a blog” to my relentlessly increasing list of new adventures I vow to attempt.
I create resources for female entrepreneurs and career-driven women striving to break out of their comfort zones and through the glass ceiling.
