What a journey just getting to this point with the site! It was only February 4th, 2009 (just a handful of weeks ago) that I decided to finally take action and bring my Live Green Smoothie vision to the web.
Although I’ve fiddled about with blogging here and there, I knew absolutely nothing about how to make it a profession, and certainly not a thing about the areas I’ve been intensely studying this last month and a half, such as:
- Affiliate Marketing
- Search Engine Optimization
- Knowledge Marketing (eBooks, etc)
- Social Media (Web 2.0)
I started out building my first site with Site Build It! (SBI). Great product, I’m just not the right customer for it — I require far too much freedom, despite my lack of web-design knowledge. So I migrated over to Joomla, which certainly offers much more flexibility and a more polished outcome for someone with my non-HTML background. But once I got into it, it was just too hard to manage — very time-consuming and non-intuitive, and began to waste my time like crazy.
Since I’m going to be the one designing, writing, and managing this site, I decided that WordPress was the way to go. I joined Jack Humphrey’s Blog Success, and he’s a WordPress guy… and I have some familiarity with it from having started a few blogs over at WordPress.com. So… even though I’ve spend a lot of time on my Joomla site, I’ve thrown it all out and have started all over from scratch.
Sometimes, that’s just the way to go. And I can feel I’m on the right track now. Things are flowin’ smoothly again…
One other change: I was holding back telling people about my site until “it was all done and ready for launch”. Not so anymore. I’m going to put up a “My Story” section with Before & After pictures of my Raw Foods/Live Green Smoothie Transformation, and then I’m telling everyone to come and visit and chat while I build the site to reflect my vision!
I have tons of passion and creativity on the subject of Raw Foods and Live Green Smoothies! My vision is very broad — it’s not to convert everyone to a “100% raw” lifestyle. That’s not even what I do in my own life. While I love and respect that choice when others make it, I simply want to show people new ways they can “jack up the raw” in their lives. There’s most definitely an entirely different Culture around “going raw”, to whatever extent one does it. There’s a different way of thinking, of preparing foods, of including raw, living and superfoods in one’s life. Anyway I can show others how to do that and to increase the vitality, nourishment, and super-charged POWER that comes from Jacking Up The Raw… that’s what I’m all about!
I also have a very specific “Live Green Smoothie Diet” to share with others. It’s what I did which completely transformed my life and opened up many new and wonderful vistas. When I get the basic legs of my site built, I’ll start sharing that as well.
In the meantime, here’s a compendium of the various blogs I’ve fiddled with and do update periodically. They point to some of my passions, and clearly suggest that I was born to be a blogger but just hadn’t found the focused channel as yet. With this Live Green Smoothie site, I most definitely have!
My Raw Blogs (Just warm-ups for what’s to come…)
- My This Raw Life Blog
- My Live Green Smoothies Blog
- My Bare-Naked Cuisine Blog
My Personal Blogs
- My “Angela Leeds” Blog
- My Ballroom Bodywork Blog
- My Breathplay (“Living in the Out-Breath”) Blog
Please check them out, comment as you wish… and come back each day to see how I’m progressing!
See you all on Facebook & Twitter…
Angela
