I had originally had a really rubbishy blog on a free site I had but the address name was really long and I wasn’t on Google or anything! I did try to get people on it and have a look but to be honest it wasn’t very good so they never looked at it again. I was a bit annoyed that nothing happened and I got a bit bored of just sitting around and doing nothing.

I started watching my mum on her course and watching her writing posts and on Twitter. She saw that I was quite interested and bought me a domain name. She started to help me build my site and write my blog. It was a lot better because I had people from all sorts of places coming to have a look, they had heard of my site from my mum or other people who knew my mum and it just grew and grew!

For many people starting a blog is a great way to make money whilst spending time at home with the family instead of working late hours and coming home when everyone else is in bed. It’s also great for us younger generation to do as you learn a lot and you will always be under the watchful eye of your parents, which may seem a bad thing but trust me you don’t want to be getting into trouble on the internet, there are a lot of nasty people on there.

Starting a blog can be seen as a bit of an investment at first but if you’re like Alex Jeffreys (over at marketingwithyou.com) earning $600,000 dollars last year, then it’s definitely worth it! It’s great to learn about managing your money especially for people who are still at school because that’s one of the many important subjects in life you don’t learn about. If you learn early you’ll be better later! Even if you’re an adult you can never stop learning, so don’t think you won’t get anything out of it except from the occasional pay check, because you will!

It’s good to be in a community with people that can help and support you, you can always learn from others’ mistakes as well as yours. It’s also important to have a leader, some-one who has a lot more experience and has got further than anyone else in the particular community. They are the ones that guide you most through your journey, and they are the ones you should follow most.

So what I want to know is why did you start your blog? What inspired you to do it and what drove you forward? How do you plan to move forward in the future? What are your plans for the future? Knowing this will hopefully help others who are more at my stage to move forward and get better. As I have said before you can learn from others’ mistakes and one thing I don’t think I have said yet, which is as equally as important, you can also learn from others success!