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If You Build It, He Will Come. Part 1
By Kimberly Bock | March 19, 2008
So here you are. You’ve researched ebooks, paperbacks, podcasts, videos, forums and then some. You begin to sprout little wings and you want to fly.
How can you prove your abilities? Build your resume‘? Gain experience?
If you are interested in the possibility of using your newfound skills but don’t know where to begin, this Buds post is for you.
This is the first of two posts to address a few options that are available to you.
I’ll only be discussing the advantages of one option today..
Create your own blog as your testing ground!
You’ll be in full control to add, remove, rearrange whatever you so choose as you choose.
Use it as a way to best express what you stand for, where you are most efficient, and what you have to offer as an SEO, a marketer, an associate, and most importantly as a person.
Strive for a niche to call your own. In the long run you’ll learn that you are not only marketing a product or a service, you are also marketing yourself. Create it and don’t be scared to revise it as needed. It’s called growth.
Once you’ve begun to visualize your priorities, your potential will excel. Because you can then reach out and claim it as your own. Your baby. Your niche. You see it. You know it. It is yours.
Then stick to it and build build build your empire to share with the universe.
Biggy: Do not feel pressured to be popular in the eyes of everybody watching. It can be a distraction to your goals. Don’t worry, you can express yourself as a gentle giant, even disagree with the ‘overseers’ of the realm and still maintain respect from others and especially for yourself. This is your time. Your resume’. Build it strategically and be true to you. The rest will fall into place.
Another biggy: Follow the leaders as an educational tool, respect and even protect their education as if it were gold. There aren’t any college courses out there that will teach you what you will find in the online networks you rummage through everyday. But be careful not to forsake fellow newbs. Seek out other quality members of the fold so as to exchange ideas and assist each other in the ‘coming out’ process.
These will be the most supportive in many areas of need because they also seek validation for their efforts. There work is often overlooked even though they may have valuable input. There are quite a few newb blogs that I am really grateful to have found.
Their willingness to ‘share the love‘ will be shown with link exchanges, votes in our prized forums, and a camaraderie that can be empowering to all involved.
Also, it’s well known that as other newbs are growing and learning the same as you, they may make mistakes and / or need help in areas that you’ve already covered or surpassed and vice versa. Assisting him / her with those challenges by commentary and active participation on their blogs enables us to also be teachers of sorts. Which only strengthens our resolves in return. And of course their reciprocation is highly likely as they want the same things as you.
Helping each other today during ‘newbiehood‘ builds tomorrows ‘A list‘ SEOs, marketers and bloggers. Allowing us to max our potential in career as well as our personal enhancement.
If you build it, he will come.
Hows that for the first step in building an awesome resume’?
Until later, have fun learning SEO!
Topics: SEO/SEM Training |
March 19th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Exactly, Kimberly. This is the best advice that anyone could offer someone learning about search engine optimization.
There really isn’t any substitute for rolling up your sleeves, and getting your hands on a web site. Tweaking titles, anchor text, headings, and using a content management system, and doing other things to make your site work are chances to actually do the work.
Great suggestions.
March 20th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Great Advice, I feel the message here. I just started blogging in July of 07. Still getting the hang of things, but you have to let it all hang out and not worry about the status quo. One day your hot, other days your not, but you are your own worst judge.
Since you can’t please everybody with your message, just find your comfort zone. The worst thing that could happen is someone clicks the back button or leaves a snipe comment. Aside from that it is pure upside.
Thanks for inspiring others to find their voice and speak up!!!