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Things I Have Learned From Blogging

Things I have learned from blogging:

Things I have learned from blogging

I just can’t believe it’s been 4 months already since the day I started writing blogs. It is such an exciting experience.

Three months ago I wrote about how to improve my blogging skills and the purpose behind it.  One thing is for sure; it has come a long way from what I ever thought this blog could be.

Now, this month has been incredible, full of travel, and extremely eye opening.  I had no idea how much I could learn and how much I could gain personally by blogging.  So, these are 5 things I’ve learned on my countless word press-playing hours.

To appreciate the new things I learned from professor and this class.

This is an exciting class and Prof. BillBelew has been a very active and knowledgeable person in blogging. Of course, we do have pressure of completing the blogs on time, but sure we benefited from the marketing with social media class.

To appreciate whoever supports me and came to review my blogs and adding comments.

They are my fuel, inspiration, and drive to keep on doing this.  Without them I would be writing with no motivation. I always like to express my sincere gratitude for reading, commenting, and participating either here.

Being myself and honest is something I not only apply to blogging, but to life in general.

4. Other travelers are a great source of inspiration

There are so many inspirational travelers out there.  Some of my traveling inspiration comes from them – things to do, places to visit, and even traveling philosophy and styles.  There is so much to learn and share in the travel community.

5. I lose nothing by asking

I started this journey without any blogging knowledge.  At times I was afraid of asking simple things for fear of sounding stupid, but I still I asked.  99% of the time I got the answer I wanted, and I keep learning from my classmates and friends. I would never have motivation to do such thing without having attended this class.

6. There is so much power in social media.

Twitter, Face book, and other social media platforms have been great to spread the word, but spreading the word is not enough, connections have to be made, and a sense of community has to be created.

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Things I Learned About Myself From Food Blogging That I Did Not Expect to

I am working on hebeontheroad.com for 10 weeks, 10 consecutive weeks, one more-than-600-word post per day, even non-stop posting on weekend. It’s really new and challenging experience for me. I have to admit that I did personal blogs before, some of which exist over 10 weeks, but none of which has continuous records for one more-than-600-word post per day. Usually, I used to update them in 2 or 3 days and as days went by, I gradually forgot to update them.

I created hebeontheroad.com due to the assignments for Marketing with Social Media, one of the MBA courses I am taking in ITU. So it’s a compulsory work, rather than voluntarily work. Therefore, in addition of the due work and report, what do I get from the blogging?

Yes, there is something I didn’t expect when I start blogging  -

1. The food blog helps me to value my taste experience. 

I love food and the hebeontheroad.com works as a food blog, which would record down my taste experience from all yummy food I take. Before blogging hebeontheroad.com, I truly felt happy and joyful when I taste them. But that’s it. Happy and Joyful, and that’s all. I wouldn’t rethink exactly what the happy and joyful feel come from. After blogging for my food website, since I need to closely describe my taste experience, I begin to figure out what exact feel brought from those yummy food. Is that coming from the appropriate sweet, or perfect seasoning, or even the nice decoration? I am thinking about these when I taste them. The consideration makes me really taste them, rather than just biting them.

2. The food blog helps me better organize my daily schedule.

Since I need to blog continuously on daily basis, so the blogging need to be one of the routines in my daily schedule. Believe or not, I don’t have many routines, those necessary things in my daily schedule.  It takes me around half an hour to blog per day, so I need to spare half an hour per day, which makes me rethink my schedule and keep it going. The must half-an-hour blogging helps me become better organizer of my own time. Due to this, I rethink what I must to do: blogging, exercises and reading. I need to arrange the time very well to fulfill all the must-do things.

3. The food blog make me seriously think the really traffic.

As I indicated as above, I did other personal blogging before. Since there are all my personally blogs, I didn’t consider much about the traffic, or don’t even consider the traffic at all. The food traffic I am doing here is a business blog, so I take serious consideration of the traffic, the better structure for better user experience and what else I could do to increase the real traffic.

Prof. Belew also shared some experience about what he benefits from blogging at Experienced Bloggers qualify as SEO Experts and Content – Inbound Marketers.

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Write by: Bei He

Website: hebeontheoad.com

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