271: How One Blogger Simplified Starting a Blog by Sharing the Load

How One Blogger Worked With Others to Start a Blog We continue our series featuring stories from new bloggers who have recently completed our free Ultimate Guide to Starting a Blog course. We hope they’ll inspire others as part of our International Start a Blog Day on February 7. Today’s story comes from Jacob West, who started the blog Live Life Liberated. His blog questions social norms and traditional ways of thinking. Jacob's blog doesn’t tell you what to think or do. Instead, it provides a friendly and open-minded environment to discuss such topics and build a like-minded community. Jacob’s tips on how to prepare, if you want to start a blog: Ask friends for help. Share skills, learning curve, and success Care about blog’s focus Stay passionate. Always have goals to pursue Be willing to work hard and plan for various tasks Links and Resources for How One Blogger Simplified Starting a Blog by Sharing the Load: Live Life Liberated Podcast Motor Courses Starting a Blog ProBlogger Pro – 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Join our Facebook group. Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Darren: Hey there and welcome to Episode 271 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name's Darren Rowse and I'm the founder of ProBogger, a blog podcast, ebooks, courses, and events that are all designed to help you to start a blog, and to grow that blog, and to build profit around that blog. Now, today, with are continuing our series of podcasts with stories from bloggers in their first year of blogging. These are all short stories and tips from participants in our free starter blog course, which we launched last year. We're sharing these in the hope that they will inspire others to start blogs as part of our International Start a Blog Day on the 7th of February. Each of the bloggers in these series will be sharing their story and some tips that they learned along the way, which will help those of you who are starting a blog. If you've been thinking about starting a blog, and we know a lot of listeners this podcast are thinking about starting a blog, or you know someone who's thinking about starting a blog who should start a blog, head over to problogger.com/start-a-blog. You'll find our free seven-step course to help you through that process of getting a blog started and also some information on how to get involved on the International Start a Blog Day on the 7th of February. If you are listening to this after the 7th of February, that's totally fine. You can still start a blog using our course. It'll be there all year, so problogger.com/start-a-blog. Now, today's story comes from Jacob West, and he shares a short story that he submitted via video this week. He has a blog called Live Life Liberated, which you can find at livelifeliberated.com. He sent us in a video story. I'll strip the audio out to use on the podcast today. You can find the full transcript of his story as well as a link back to his site on our show notes over at problogger.com/podcast/271. I'll be back after he shares his story to pull out a few of the things that I noticed about what he shares. Here's Jacob. Jacob: Hey, everyone. My name's Jake West. I just wanted to spend five minutes of your time to talk about my experience as a 2018 blogger. My site is Live Life Liberated at central URL, livelifeliberated.com. It's a blog designed to question social norms, traditional ways of thinking, and a friendly, open-minded environment. It's not really telling you what we think but more or less discussing, and so it's very centered around the idea of having open debates, and commenting, and emailing between one another, and really just having a fair wondering of what's really going on. I started that in June 2018 so we're on five months now. Essentially, the reason that I decided to start it because I had ...