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Interview with Dana Sibilsky (Art Blogger) : Journey of a Professional Blogger : eAskme
Other people are reading : A New Way to Grow Your Following on Facebook with Author TagsQ. How the idea to make your own blog came in your mind? How you found the right people to develop it and what big obstacles you faced?
Ans: A long time ago, I realized my passion was the interest of other people's passions. In other words, I enjoyed seeing people pursue their passions and what they love, I enjoyed seeing people accomplish their goals. I realized art is the worldwide language to help people express themselves and their passion in a beautiful way—a way that could be understood by anyone no matter what language they spoke.
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I've always been an artist, but seeing how fast art can spread around the world thanks to technology today is what got me deeper into this passionate language of expression. I then also realized blogging is perhaps the best way to connect to people of similar interest from all over the world. I combined the two, that is, art and blogging, to maximize my productivity in seeing passions reached and thus danasibilsky.com, my art blog, was born!
Over the lifespan of my art blog, I've come in contact with countless people which is my favorite part of blogging. I love getting an email saying how my blog has helped them tap into their passion through the use of art, then they can share my page and their passion through their social media. That's a win-win!
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The biggest obstacles we faced would have to be a lack of traffic in the beginning and iffy hosting. In the beginning we didn't know how to drive traffic so it felt like we were doing all this work for nothing so i started researching ways to drive traffic and implementing different ways. We eventually got the hang of that and now have a decent amount of traffic. The Hosting problem we faced was our first hosting provider had constant times when it was down. Rudes Review was down a couple times a week because of that and when I called them about it they couldn't even tell me why. They said they couldn't help me sort it out either, they said they couldn't do anything about it unless my site was down when I was contacting them,
Q. Can blogging really change someone`s life?
Ans: I believe blogging is one of the many gateways of opportunity to a changed life, that is, of course, if you let it change your life. I've heard of so many stories of people who got into blogging about their life, their family or their interest and through the course of this little hobby that was blogging, it became a new work-from-home career.
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Another instance I know of is a friend of mine who own a business. He had ran his home business for years with a steady flow of traffic. It wasn't enough to live off of, but it did help with the bills. Last year in June of 2014, he decides to branch out and begin blogging about his business and his expertise. It was almost as if he had success overnight! To this day, that day job isn't needed and he will be renting a space for his business in the next few months.
Q. What are your favorite Internet marketing tools?
Ans: To my knowledge, I don't know of very many marketing tools. One tool I have recently discovered to show a great deal of information of any website is SEOquake. This tool is a plugin for Firefox and an extension for Google Chrome browser. SEOquake will show you the pagerank, traffic, links, keywords, link to domain and so much more. I'm still learning about it, so I don't have all the facts and information of how to use it. I do know, that a tool like this can be used to look up the keywords of your competition. If your competition has keywords, you can get an idea of what they are selling on. I would write that information down.
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Q. What is your daily schedule? And how do you maintain your tasks?
Ans: I use the spreadsheet in Google Docs for all my information. I write down my list of things to do and what I want to accomplish with each task. This tool also helps me keep track of the time I spend on each individual task. It does wonders for keeping me focused.
Q. Blogging have different definition for different person. What is it for you?
Ans:For me as an artist and an art lover, blogging is art. With art you have an outlet to express yourself and share with the world what is important to you. Art is used to also increase awareness on an urgent matter such as breast cancer, wars or other serious world issues. Art is an absolutely powerful language known around the world because it is a part of us even as children.
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Blogging is the same way. Through blogging, a person can have an outlet to express themselves, their interest, their dreams and what they want to accomplish. It can be purely for fantasy or even educational. The definition of blogging for me would be the literature of the things we love.
Q. Which are your favorite blogs?
Ans: My passion is the passion of other people. Not many thing makes me light up and add that special sparkle to my eye that seeing someone discover their passion and chase after it. It's the reason why I made my blog—to help others through the power of art find passion. Likewise, my favorite blogs are those that are passionate. If the blog is educational, that is a major plus.
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Q. How much time do you spend on social media promotion and SEO of your blog?
Ans: Honestly with what little time I have between my family, I try to get to my blog and up the rankings as often as I can, but probably not often enough. If I were to give a rough estimate of time, I'd say I do so once a week for about 4 hours.
Q. How much time do you spend for blogging daily?
Ans: Whether I am writing in my blog or writing guest posts in someone else's blog, I would have to say I estimate the time I spend blogging every day to be up to 6 hours on average. Guest post would have to be my favorite because I get the opportunity to connect with more people and hopefully add value to them by spreading my wisdom and experience to them.
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Q. Finally, I would love to have your message for my readers and any suggestions for newbies?
Ans: Readers: If you truly love the content you read. If it has helped you in anyway whatsoever or if you believe it would help someone else, please take the time to share it and comment because it helps a great deal with rankings. Not to forget to mention that it means that someone found our work enjoyable. We do countless hours of research and try our best to consider our audience. When we bloggers write, we are thinking about you.
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