Mr Beach Bum.com

In mid-July I helped a fellow beginning blogger get a website up and running. She wanted to do a blog on her favorite topic - Hawaii. I got her set up on WordPress and she quickly saw how easy it was to write posts and make changes to the site all from within WordPress. She had spent a few months considering doing a blog but was feeling the anxiety that some of you may feel. Anxiety about failure, about not knowing what to do, etc. All this was keeping her from getting started but when she finally made the choice to publish the blog she was amazed at just how easy and fun it really was.

By the end of July her blog had already gotten over 890 visitors. This was in her first month and it wasn’t even half the month! It may not sound like much but it is a great start and really got her off on the right foot. This was also accomplished without a single penny of advertising. We only used Digg, Feedburner and Mybloglog to get it started.

Now that we’re at the end of August, I would like to share with you her stats for the month. Not even including tomorrow’s stats, her site has:

3,124 Visitors

1,905 Unique Visitors

35,651 Hits

Now some might not be so impressed by these numbers. But remember, this is only her first full month! I say well done and keep up the great work!

Check out her website and congratulate her. Let this be an inspiration to anyone who is “on the fence” about starting their own blog. You can do it!