bwagy, the blog of Ben Young

Today I celebrate a year of blogging! Woo hoo!

I started off initially 1 post a week, then ramped up to three posts a week (a huge step).  Then in September decided to try and do one a business day.  Since then I have been set.  

I have explored doing more than 1 post a day but tend to avoid it.  By limiting my output I enhance the value of the posts that do make it.  Often I find myself deleting posts that are great but not great enough.

Some of the cool stuff that has happened as a direct (or indirect) result of my blogging:

• Written my first book The Best Ideas are Free*
• Succesfully got my ChangeThis proposal voted in (yet to be released).  Thanks to all that voted.
• Had the chance to interview Tom Peters (video here) 
• Priceless friendships & networks that typically require years to build
• Had the blog republished on GetFrank
• Also earlier this year after recommendations from readers of the blog it is now republished once a week on the NZHerald, one of New Zealands biggest media sites.  Consequently it is the #1 Business Blog on the herald (in traffic & comments).
• Built up my twitter network, meeting many many great people.
• Got invited to speak on Gen C & Entrepreneurship (video link) at the Digital Summit earlier this year
• Prepared several manifestos & ebooks Blogging Strategy, Blogging Strategy: Extras for Experts edition, bwagy marketing manifesto, Business Stripped Bare
• Generated of hours attention and thousands of visitors
• Established bwagy brand
• Forced me to explain myself, challenge myself, am much much smarter this year than last. (Reasons on why to start a blog today & video)
• By my calculations processed about 16,200 emails!… (compared to 2000 the year before).
• 214 posts – 353 comments…untold spam haha

The list goes on, it has been a wonderful year & I look forward to many more… so keep watching & participating, glad to have you here.

I just want to thank you all for reading – keep an eye on the blog for a follow up special* announcement later in the day 🙂 -Ben.

Tags: 1 year, bwagy, marathon

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 3:46 pm.