Ok so that was a very long post. Sorry. But I think if you started reading you would be hooked by Flutara's story, it's quite amazing what 1 person has been through. Unfortunately she is not even unusual, there are SO many of these sort of stories here in Albania.
That Women's Day post was my 150th post by the way. And it has taken me 3 yrs to get there! and 20 followers, that averages out at 0.6 of a follower per month. Oh dear I wish I hadn't worked that out.....just as well I don't do it for fame, fortune & fanfare. But if there is a semi-follower out there or even a point6 of a follower then please do join me!
I'd better go to the Cybermummy conference & get some hot tips on improving my blog. By the way, I'm going to go out on a limb here, but didn't anyone else think £100 for a day conference rather expensive?? Even £80 the 'discount' rate is a bit steep. Maybe I have just been living abroad too long, maybe that's the 'going rate' for a London based conference, for lunch & some seminars. Maybe the experts are all professionals being paid for their time. I had thought it was going to be a bit more informal with 'blogging mummies' just giving advice from their experience. but actually it looks like it's all about PR & making money from your blog (even though several recent posts keep telling us that's a non starter), marketing yr blog etc. Maybe there will be champagne & wine & take home goodies & that's why it costs that much. Maybe they are not expecting many so it needs to be that price to cover costs.
I mean that's more than a day at The Sanctuary Spa in London. I know of course that people will say "Well, you don't have to go, but the point is, I want to go!"
I also think that MOST people's motivation for going will be because they want to meet other bloggers, the ones they have been reading & 'met' in cyber space.
Maybe I'm just too much of an 'old style blogger' & of course my little unzooted up, low traffic blog is evidence of that.
But I felt like the child in 'The Emperor's New Clothes' who pointed the finger & said "the king's got no clothes on!" when I went to the discussion on the British Mummy Bloggers website & everyone was so excited about it. Only 2 commenters, that I could see, said "Wow, I need to find out more before I commit £100 to this" or "I will do all I can to scrape the money together", which I thought were more normal reactions.
After all isn't the point that we are, by definition, Mummy Bloggers, ie not working or working that much, whereas the price reflects more of a professional market I would say.
Well clearly someone is making money out of blogging.
Tell me what you think, & please correct me if I'm wrong. I would like to know what I am misunderstanding.
