Blogging my everyday this week: Day 2

Sorry guys, I meant to post this last night, but forgot too!

Today (Tuesday) definitely started out better than yesterday (Monday) went.  I finally got my phone to charge fully and it should be on the up and up now.  I decided to treat myself this morning to a bagel from Einstein brothers with their delectable honey butter and a starbucks.  In all honesty, I purchased the starbucks to shoot a vlog that I’m posting up next week.  I’m kind of excited about it – it’s funny to me… but then again, I think I’m funny a good bit of the time when I assume others do not.

I failed to get a picture of the bagel because I was starving and practically inhaled the thing, but here I was all this morning working away on my video with my starbucks in hand.

I finally finished editing my video to the best of my ability and patience for now, then decided to start working on an e-mail subscription list.  When I was at Blog Elevated, we had Sugar Rae speak at our conference.  She was awesome!  She is a little edgy and her material probably isn’t for everyone, but she’s good at SEO!  She shared this information with us about why it’s so important to build an e-mail list.  Basically, “if you aren’t building your e-mail list, you’re an idiot.”  If something happens to google or wordpress in the future, how will your readers continue to get your information?  The answer is, they won’t and you won’t have a way of knowing who to begin sending your blog posts and information too.  I’ve always been reluctant myself about subscribing to people’s feed and I hate the RSS thing, but if you’re a subscriber of Mandy Rose, then you understand that an e-mail list doesn’t have to be annoying or full of gimmicks.  You also don’t have to receive the SAME INFORMATION if you enjoy reading the blog.  I enjoy reading Mandy’s blog daily, but I also look forward to her newsletter that she sends out because the information isn’t the same.

I want to create something similar.  If something ever happened to blogger, I’d like to still have readers interested in reading my information.  So today, I began building my e-mail list.  I intend on creating an incentive for people to subscribe (some kind of e-book or DIY/recipe tutorial that isn’t featured on my blog).  If you’re interested in subscribing anyways – to receive extra information that won’t always be found on my blog – then feel free to go ahead and subscribe!  I promise, I will not cloud your inbox with meaningless e-mails, you’ll get a maximum of 2 e-mails per month with what I would consider quality information.  I can assure you, I get the most annoyed at pointless e-mail clutter!

I meant to go on a run this evening before dinner, but I ended up taking a nap instead, so there’s that… Then I met up with my friend Jamey and her husband for dinner and drinks (although I had already eaten to save some money because the place we ate can be kind of pricey for my non-employed budget right now).  I didn’t do much after dinner and I neglected to get a picture.  I’m starting to realize each day that Blogging my everyday isn’t as easy as I expected it to be and I’m not really that great at it! haha Hopefully you can expect a post tonight and I won’t forget like I did yesterday.