I received this random mention in a tweet today
I love music, I love teaching private voice lessons, but the more I do it, the more I find myself wanting to do something else. I recently began a twitter to try to promote my blog outside of my circle, it's been a few weeks and I only have 14 followers. But going from 0 followers to 14 complete strangers seems like a little victory to me.
About a month ago I ran across a community called Blessed is She. These Catholic women have an online presence via email devotionals, blogs, tweets, inspirational photographs, ect, that has also branched out to brunches hosted by willing members of this community. When I read the daily devotionals, which are written by the members, and their bios at the end of the email, I get excited. I want to write them. I did notice they have a blog and invite everyone to contribute and since then every time I am on my computer, that is what I want to do.
So what's the problem?
I am spending my time going from studio to studio and teaching. I don't have the time necessary to write a brilliant blog. I'm having a difficult enough time trying to "perfect" a talk on "pain, healing, and hope" that I have to give for a retreat. But I want to do this. I want to wake up, make some coffee, open up my computer and retweet gems of wisdom, post scripture verses and saints quotes, and write about the things that move me. Then in the afternoon, I want to open my door to teach voice lessons to students who travel to my house because they love it. And select nights a week, I want to continue being active in my ministries at church and in the local young adult Catholic community. I want to go to school and only worry about the piles of Augustine, Aquanias, Lewis, and Merton that I may have to read. So for the past year, I've been trying to figure out how I could work less so that I could have time to do more ministry and still be able to pay bills. It is quite the conundrum. Social media & blogging may be the answer. But I have no clue where to start to make that profitable. Followers/readers is probably where I should begin, So if you are reading this, pick your favorite post of mine and send it out to some people, follow me on twitter @madmosmusings, suggest my blog to others. If I could get up to 100 views per post then maybe I can start advertising and eventually make enough money to pay my rent. That is my goal for now.
So I'm gonna try to start typing a little more and you can start sharing a little more. The whole while I will think about this quote from St. Francis of Assisi,
it's only fitting, he left behind money for ministry as well:
"Start by doing what is necessary; then do what is possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Sweet! A few years ago, those were my plans! I will probably open a Twitter account soon. When I do, I will def retweet. xoxo
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, check out Kristen Lamb's book on blogging and her posts, too. And Pinterest search "ways to make money blogging." I've seen lots of stuff on there while researching networking and marketing.
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