Should you go for a free blog that's a question that I'll try to answer on this episode.
Hey, we're ready what's up Abhishek here and I have these really really great questions thanks for from one of you guys that you know I think it's a great question which is should I go for a free blog.
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Free blog
When I'm starting out should I go for a free website when I'm starting out what I do not have a website should I go for a free blog a free platform and you know free platform free blogs they are really enticing they're really you know they cut your eye because you know if you go to wix.com weebly.com wordpress.com blog or Blogspot Tumblr those are free platforms that will allow you to set up a free blog in minutes and you know there are a bunch of people that I know successful entrepreneurs that they've started with their own free blog like Seth Godin.
For example, he started on TypePad which is another free blog and I think it's already it's still on TypePad by the way which is great.
Now the question that you need to answer is what I'll be using the blog for will it be to promote your ideas will it be some marketing strategy will it be your life and blood of your business will it be for your company what do you want one what do you want to do on the blog do you want to just spread ideas like Seth Godin does you want to capture emails do you want to do retargeting campaigns or maybe all of the above.
Alright so those questions are really important when you're setting up your first blow and should you go for a free blog because here's the deal free blogs are convenient they are easy to set up they do not cost a dime but there's a coast hidden costs a hidden fee associated with that which is which are rather limitations you will be really really limited in the number of things that you can do with a blog so for a sample if you go right now to Symantec Mansouri calm or Hernan Vasquez calm or rather blog or nan Vasquez calm those are self-hosted blogs.
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What does that mean that means that we have our own domains we're having on hosting and we have our own wordpress.org installations, okay and that's like if you're trying to get real ninja and real really advanced with your marketing techniques with all of the little pop-ups and the capture pages and the capture boxes and you know the culture actions and the videos that you can implement and all of that kind of things which are really cool it's super hard to achieve that on a free blog.
Okay because on a free blog you do not have access to hosting you do not have access to a ton of things that make a blog a real professional blog okay so my suggestion would be if you're starting out and you want to start blogging and you want to get and kind of start playing with the look and feel.
For example, WordPress goes ahead and makes a worker's comp look okay to make something like your name war purse calm start blogging in there start you know posting in there but and here's a big but not a big bag with a double team a big part this is big.
But if you want to upgrade do not try to upgrade from WordPress itself okay they will offer you get your own domain they will offer you get your own hosting do not do that because you will be limited for life-like literally because if you have like earn a Vasquez calm and I have it in WordPress there are a bunch of things that I cannot do.
So the minute that you want to upgrade to something like more professional to something that has your own domain that something that will allow you more freedom with what you can do and cannot do just migrate to new hosting and start you know you can migrate you can actually migrate all of your content so it's not lost but just start blogging on our own platform you can install your own WordPress installation on your own hosting account and you can start from there.
Okay so again if you're starting out if you're newly or you haven't blogged before or you have a website but you're not entirely sure if you could be blogging like once a week just go ahead you know and start with your own WordPress com Tumblr blogger Wix Weebly but have in mind that at some point you will need to progress from that and you will need to have your own hosted solution.
You do not do it on your own you can hire somebody to do it but just have that in mind okay so that there are no surprises after the fact okay there are a bunch of things that these companies will tell you that you can do that you cannot actually do because those are limited okay and they're free what can what do you expect all right so get the credit card out of your ass and start paying for things I'm just kidding.
But anyways guys I just wanted to touch base on that real quick because that's a recurring question that I have been having and you have any other pressing questions you know those questions that cannot you know they don't leave you to sleep like should I get a WordPress blog or not Oh what do I do if that's your case, not these pairs just drop them in the comment below take them out of your mind into the power of the Internet the YouTube power and I'll try to answer them to the best of the extent of my experience.
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