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Day 1 -31DBBB – Write an Elevator Pitch

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Today’s task in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge is to write an elevator pitch for your blog.

I’ve always had a tagline for this blog that went “Everyday Photos… Every… Day…” This blog is my blog about my life. But it is very much about my daily photos. I’ve come a long way from naming each photo post with just the photo-a-day and a number. That got pretty boring after a while so now I try and give each one some sort of title. So I think I’ve come a long way with this blog. While I will be doing the challenge with this blog I will also be doing it on my other one Read To Me, Dad. RTMD has the potential to be an incredible blog so I really want to work on that one. You can follow my progress in these posts.

By the way my elevator pitch for BenSpark.com is this:

“Everyday Photos… Every… Day… BenSpark.com is about my life through photography. Each image is a gateway to a story about my daily life. Occasionally funny, inspiring, interesting or creative BenSpark.com is real life in photos. With over 1400 consecutive days and five different cameras BenSpark.com has documented images from the mundane to the amazing.“

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For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

For the Things We Have to Learn Before We Can do Them, We Learn by Doing Them.

Quite a long fortune for today’s FortunateBluFrog post. Experience is the greatest teacher and you can’t get experience unless you do things. Such is the case with blogging, you can’t get experience unless you blog. New bloggers who want the quick fix are not going to do well unless they get their hands dirty and start blogging. You might think that you have nothing to blog about, but most likely you do.

Blog About What You Love

There are blogs around from everything to insects to inspiration. If you love something and can’t stop thinking or talking about it then you’ll do well blogging about it. Will you make money doing that? I can’t tell you that. I can’t guarantee that. But I can tell you that if you blog about what you love you’ll earn a fortune beyond money.

How Do I Know This?

I know this because I’ve been blogging about photography, travel, technology and my family. These are topics I truly love. Along the way I’ve made a couple of bucks for my time. But what has made me fortunate has been the friendships I have made, the experiences I have had and the conversations I have had. All of that was because of experience, on the job training. Those were things I needed to learn by doing.

I remember back in 1997 I wanted to learn how to kayak. So I bought a book about kayaking, I read through it and started trying to learn as much as I could about kayaking. However, I knew nothing about kayaking until I got in a boat and started paddling, finally.

What are you going to do today?