Hey Edwin, in the past I have mainly relied on referrals and Upwork, and LinkedIn although mainly by accident.
Last year I finally decided to push myself to blog and to engage more in social media. It's been a hard process for me. I learned that writing outside of emails and chat messages was pretty difficult, and I have dragged my feet up to pretty recently.
I wanted to mention that because what I found is that I feel I haven't given it a great effort, yet from the work I've put in so far I already get 200 visitors a month to my blog with about 14% new users each month. It's not a lot, but the cool thing is that it didn't require much effort and gave me that feeling of accomplishment and belief that if I work harder I can get the results I want. I write about things I think people want to know about, I try to add relevant keywords, and many posts slowly start to rank. I also see visitors from many parts of the world that somehow find the content. It's been really cool to see the effect!
I'm focusing mainly on using LinkedIn to post and engage right now. I do use Alignable.com to connect to local businesses and I get visibility there (no leads yet), and I just found dev.to which seems like a really cool place to engage in. Oh I'm also just starting with Medium to re-post some of my blog posts. I also love answering questions on Quora where you can get visibility very quickly. Since late 2017 I have gotten 39K views on my answers.
Right now this feels like this is something I can handle. But doing much else (Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Youtube) just feels too overwhelming for me. There are just too many options. But maybe by the end of the year what I do now will seem easy and I will have built a more automated process for it.
I think the most important thing is to take that first step. Don't think too much about the future, and take it day by day.
So to answer your question, yes create your own blog, post on dev.to, medium, as much as you can handle. I don't know what you do, but I already want to know what you do. The cool thing about blog posting is that we all have a different story to tell. No story is the same. The more personal you can make it the more interesting it becomes.
I believe if you put in the work you will get the results.
An aspiring artist using code as another medium for creation. I am currently a software developer in an EdTech company focused on improving communication in the workplace. I work heavily in Ruby!
Hey Edwin, in the past I have mainly relied on referrals and Upwork, and LinkedIn although mainly by accident.
Last year I finally decided to push myself to blog and to engage more in social media. It's been a hard process for me. I learned that writing outside of emails and chat messages was pretty difficult, and I have dragged my feet up to pretty recently.
I wanted to mention that because what I found is that I feel I haven't given it a great effort, yet from the work I've put in so far I already get 200 visitors a month to my blog with about 14% new users each month. It's not a lot, but the cool thing is that it didn't require much effort and gave me that feeling of accomplishment and belief that if I work harder I can get the results I want. I write about things I think people want to know about, I try to add relevant keywords, and many posts slowly start to rank. I also see visitors from many parts of the world that somehow find the content. It's been really cool to see the effect!
I'm focusing mainly on using LinkedIn to post and engage right now. I do use Alignable.com to connect to local businesses and I get visibility there (no leads yet), and I just found dev.to which seems like a really cool place to engage in. Oh I'm also just starting with Medium to re-post some of my blog posts. I also love answering questions on Quora where you can get visibility very quickly. Since late 2017 I have gotten 39K views on my answers.
Right now this feels like this is something I can handle. But doing much else (Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Youtube) just feels too overwhelming for me. There are just too many options. But maybe by the end of the year what I do now will seem easy and I will have built a more automated process for it.
I think the most important thing is to take that first step. Don't think too much about the future, and take it day by day.
So to answer your question, yes create your own blog, post on dev.to, medium, as much as you can handle. I don't know what you do, but I already want to know what you do. The cool thing about blog posting is that we all have a different story to tell. No story is the same. The more personal you can make it the more interesting it becomes.
I believe if you put in the work you will get the results.
Hope this helps :)
Thanks! I find it really refreshing to hear about posting to feel rewarding. I do get a bit of dopamine release when I see someone views my posts :)!
Thanks for reassuring me! I hope to have some blog posts that might be peak your interest :)