Question:
I was wondering if you could share your experience, how did you get into blogging and reviewing DVDs? I have my own fitness business and I want to start a fitness article & product review blog. I just don’t know where to begin 🙂 How did you find companies willing to send you their products to review? Thanks in advance for your time 🙂

Pam Nixon

The World is Your Audience
I first started blogging about a year and a half ago when I took a business development class that was taught by one of the associates of my Teacher, Tulshi Sen. It was about the nuts and bolts of building an on-line business. It also inspired me to see the opportunities that are opening up across the world. We were encouraged to set up a free blog and practice writing and dream of ways we could do business on-line.

In the Summer of 2007, I started and ended about 3 different blogs until I decided on my topic – Teaching Kids Yoga. My posts were infrequent at the beginning but my mission was to give A LOT of free information about this niche topic in Yoga. Finding a Niche is highly recommended for new bloggers. If you are interested in reviewing products you may try to narrow down to a niche of only certain products. Plus when you find a niche that is really interesting to you, it is easier to write the content with authority and passion.

1. Pro-Blogger: this writer from Australia and his guest bloggers give tips on blogging. Check out this eye-opening post: How Much Money Do Bloggers Make Blogging?
2. Yoga City NYC :  This is a good blog on how to write your whole yoga site as a yoga teacher.

Once again I have to give credit to the original course I took through Tulshi Sen. I learned about the power of Visioning what you want and holding the vision. Visioning, simply put, is thinking of what you want and not what you don’t want.
I know I go on and on about this book, but what can I say except that this is how I learned visioning which led to the products to review. To see more about Visioning get: Ancient Secrets of Success for Today’s World, it has helped me develop my business using spiritual principles and practices I am proud of.

My Blog Vision 
What I feel is important to keep in mind is that people are reading blogs are from all over the world. Big cities, small towns, well known countries and mysterious lands (to me). With a world population of 6.7 billion there’s bound to be somebody out there who wants to hear what we have to say.

If you want to get started blogging, there finally comes a point when you put down the books, stop reading other blogs, and just start writing. If you really want to blog … you have to become a writer. Even before you decide on a name or a platform to host your blog on, start writing articles. Start a file of unposted articles. Start lists of topics you could write about. And write, write, write.

When it comes to blogging, writing is never a waste of time. It will come in very handy later when your blog is up and running and you’re thinking your readers are wondering where you are.

Thanks again for the question Pam. I’d love to see a link to your blog if you decide it is something you want to go ahead with.

Now a Question to everyone reading – do you have a blog? Is your blog part of your business? How has blogging helped your business? Why do you blog?