PB015: Find a Blogging Buddy [Day 15 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog] - a podcast by Darren Rowse: Blogger, Speaker, Author and Online Entrepreneur

How to Improve Your Blog by Partnering with a Blogging Buddy
Today's episode is all about finding another blogger (or bloggers) to help you improve your blog. Blogging doesn't have to be a solo venture - in fact it can be incredibly social and when we grasp this idea of doing it together it can lead to all manner of great things.


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Why having a blogging buddy can help you to improve the quality of your bloggingAreas that you can work on with another blogger
3 ways to find a blogging buddyHead to the ProBlogger Facebook Page to connect with other ProBlogger readers - you might just find a buddy there.
Further Reading on Finding Blogging BuddiesBuilding Your Online Tribe: Jeff Goins Shares his Top Tips and Tools
The SITS Girls tell us how to Find Your Blogging Tribe in this first part of a several-post series.How to Form a Bond with Fellow Bloggers - Twelveskip
Kat from the How They Blog Podcast talks us through how to start and run a mastermind group during her chat with Trina HoldenFull Transcript
Expand to view full transcriptCompress to smaller transcript viewWelcome to the ProBlogger Podcast. My name is Darren Rowse and welcome to episode 15 and day 15 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, we're talking about blogging buddies, teaming up with another blogger to help improve both of your blogs in some way. Today's show notes are at problogger.com/podcast/15.

Hi there. It's Darren from ProBlogger here. Welcome to day 15 of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Today, we're going to talk about finding yourself a blog buddy. I'm an introvert. I've declared this many times on my blogs before. While I enjoy the company of other people very much, I get my energy by spending time alone. Blogging and podcasting are great mediums for me in this respect. I get to interact with people, but I had a bit of a distance. I get to monitor how much time I spend by myself.

However, one thing I've learned over the last 13 years is that sometimes I need to push myself out of my comfort zone, out of my solitude, and into the presence of others because when I do, my blogs actually grow faster, the quality of my blogging increases, and the impact that I have upon my readers grows as well when I work with other bloggers. I learned this very early on back in 2002 when I started blogging. Even in my first weeks, I remember I stumbled into the company of a very small group of other wonderful bloggers who helped me through those first really tricky weeks of blogging.

You probably remember those times where you had so many questions, doubts, fears, and so little knowledge about what you're doing. I had no idea what I was doing and it would have been very easy for me to give up blogging many times in those first few weeks, but with the support of that small group of other bloggers—friends, really; it was no formal group—I got up and running, and I started walking on my own feet. Gradually, I grew the knowledge. Some of the doubts and some of the fears—not all of them—began to disappear. I began to understand what I was doing.

There have been many times over the years since this has been the case for me as I've faced different challenges. I remember the times where I've been burnt out and struggling to create content and people have given me ideas, support, and encouragement. I remember times where I couldn't seem to find readers for my blogs and other bloggers helped me by promoting my blog to their readers really generously. I remember starting new blogs at different times and just being completely out of my depth with the technicalities.

I remember switching platforms from Blogger to Movable Type and then to WordPress and having no idea what I was doing.

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