How much can we share?
A few months ago, I announced I was rebranding this site as Blue Mushrooms, and moving away from journaling and more toward actually providing good information to people who want to market online.
Since then my traffic has dropped a little. I thought long and hard this weekend and realized the following.
- Going back to the domain name was a good idea. It’s unique and memorable.
- My information is not. “Here’s another great Wordpress plugin!” = less helpful than one might think.
And my truly helpful posts, like fixing the Wordpress is_home error and dealing with horizontal scrolling issues in WP themes, are few and far between. - I, however, am unique and memorable.
So I’m back to journaling. I’m importing all posts and comments from the Sapphire blog I started and killing that blog. I’ll continue to share good info, but mostly this site will be about me taking those “387,923 Difficult Painful Steps” that it takes to get to a full-time living online.
There’s another reason for this decision, though. Another thing I realized this weekend is that if I ever do figure out how to make tons of money online… I can’t exactly just blog it on here, can I? Then everyone would do it, and it would stop working for all of us. When you finally get where you’re going, there are some things you have to keep for yourself, and some things you can only sell at a price.
What you can always share freely is moral support. A laugh at your own mistakes. Reality checks. Those things have a lot of value. I’ll still be sharing the latest WP plugins and all that jazz. But instead of limiting myself to such “just the facts, ma’am” stories, I’ll also be posting about my perspective on what I’m trying, succeeding and failing to do online.
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