Ever Consider Having Your Own Blog? (Part Two)

February 11th, 2008 admin Posted in Business |

In Part One I talked about how a blog can help people find you and your art. And maybe you have been thinking about creating a blog but do not know how or where to start. And you may also be worried about having enough content, or enough discipline to keep updating it. Well let us tackle one thing at a time.

How do you begin to create a blog?

First you must decided what blog service to go with. There are several free options out there that are well tested and easy to use. I recommend starting with a free blog to see how blogging suits you. If you like it you can always upgrade it later. Let us look at some of the more popular options. (In no particular order.)

Blogger. This is Google’s blog service and can be handy if you already have a Google account.

Wordpress. Wordpress is probably one of the more popular blog services out there. The free version has lots of features and a deep community of users backing it up. Also it is easy to upgrade if your blog really starts to take off.

LiveJournal. To be honest I do not know much about LiveJournel, just that it is a popular choice.

I have experience with Blogger and Wordpress. Both worked well for me. I’d recommend Blogger if you want to keep it simple or if your not sure about this whole blogging thing yet. And I’d recommend Wordpress if you want some more options or you think you will want to upgrade your blog. By upgrade I mean have your own unique domain name and the ability to customize it fully to your liking.

I started this blog using Wordpress hosted by Wordpress for free. My original address was www.zaf622.wordpress.com. I now host it on my own server so that I can have a unique URL, www.ArtPalaver.com. Starting with the free simple version was nice though because it gave me a taste for blogging. I was able to kick the tires and see if I liked it.

If your interested in adding a blog to your self promotion tool kit just click on one of the links above and sign up. Each site makes getting started pretty simple. But you don’t like to write, or you fear not keeping the blog current, or a blog will just add one more thing to your long to-do list. Stay tuned fearless reader, we will talk about that in Part Three.

this post sponsored by Beet Street.