This month, I’m celebrating 10 years since I launched my little weblog. Since then, it’s
been fairly the journey and a lifetime of experiences I by no means might have dreamed.
How it began…
On January nineteenth, 10 years in the past, I launched a weblog known as Jenn’s Developments in Social Media Administration.
There was no technique. There have been no targets. I had no thought what I used to be doing. However I
began a weblog.
It was on a free WordPress web site and theme. I began publishing randomly and
incessantly. It was enjoyable, and actually it was only a pastime. Nevertheless it began to achieve momentum. I began making wonderful connections with folks all over the world.
I bear in mind “going” to Social Media Advertising World again in 2013. My weblog launched in January. SMMW was in March. It was a BIG convention and tremendous costly for me. So I did not go to the precise convention however I frolicked on the resort (it was right here in San Diego the place I dwell) and deliberately met up with folks, struck up conversations, joined group chats within the bar, and extra. I met a number of the most influential folks within the business.
And that was once I KNEW, I knew I needed to be a speaker. I knew this was the route my life would go. I did not know the way it might occur, however I the hearth was lit inside me.
After which, about 3 months after that, I fell in love with this “little” app known as Instagram. I cherished it however needed to know use it for enterprise. And again then, in 2013, there weren’t quite a lot of useful assets. So, I began running a blog about it. I examined issues. I hypothesized methods. I discovered accounts doing issues effectively. I stored running a blog about it.
And I began rating on Google. Loads. Not simply first web page outcomes, however first itemizing outcomes.
That is when issues began to alter. I migrated my weblog to my very own area. I began getting strategic with a posting schedule. Mates began inviting me onto their Google+ exhibits to speak IG. I began getting invited onto podcasts – I nonetheless joke that I used to be a podcast whore and just about mentioned sure to anybody that invited me lol. Nevertheless it labored. My viewers grew. Exponentially.
After which I slowly began getting requests to talk. I spoke at Social Media Day San Diego after which at SMMW15. Two years after crashing the social gathering, I used to be standing on the stage at SMMW (whereas pregnant too lol) and doing what I knew I used to be meant to do.
However that was simply the beginning!
It’s been a tremendous 10 years!
I can not probably break down the whole lot that is occurred over the past 10 years into one easy record.
My enterprise has witnessed me undergo a ton of life experiences – having a child,
getting divorced, being a full time single mother, homeschooling throughout covid, sending my child off to high school, and a lot extra!
It has been a curler coaster however I feel my enterprise is healthier for it and I do know I am higher for the whole lot my enterprise has helped me accomplish.
Nevertheless it’s a lot extra than simply that record
What I’m most grateful for over the past 10 years is the folks. I’ve made probably the most
wonderful connections with folks all over the world.
I’ve associates that are actually like household whom I by no means would have met with out this on-line world connecting us.
Folks through the years and all over the world have helped me construct this enterprise, they’ve given me microphones and levels, they’ve helped me welcome my daughter to the world, they’ve toured me round their cities, they’ve held area for me by means of my divorce, they’ve provided assist and recommendation, and a lot extra.
Whereas this video doesn’t seize all of it, it’s actually quite a lot of highlights of fantastic
folks over the past 10 years:
And I’ve realized rather a lot this final decade
Once more, approach an excessive amount of to distill right into a single weblog put up, however listed here are a number of the enterprise classes I realized within the final 10 years:
