I’ve already discussed why you need to get a blog if you’re a freelancer, but now I’m going to pull out the facts and show you why you need to have a blog.

ProFreelancing has been up and running for 30 days now. You might think blogging is a lot of work and a big waste of time, but I’m going to tell you why you’re wrong.

Blogging for me has done three major things to benefit my writing career:

1. Build a name for myself online.
2. Get new clients for my business.
3. Find prospects for my information products.

I have written 25 posts in the past 30 days, most of which took between 30-45 minutes to complete. From a purely business standpoint, that’s approximately 15 hours of billable time. So, if I’m going to be spending that much time on a blog each month, it better produce results, right?

Absolutely…and here’s a breakdown of this past months ProFreelancing results:

Work

• 2 new clients with the potential for long term relationships.
• $650 of projects that I received through ProFreelancing visitors.

Networking

• Emailed back and forth with a number of people that are more “connected” than I.
• Found a number of great blogs through my readership that I now read and learn from.

Readership

• 82 subscribers and rising fast.
• Over 3200 unique visitors from 84 different countries.
• Over 7500 total pageviews.

Those numbers might not seem at all staggering, but remember… this was the first 30 days of this blog. I had no connections beforehand and I didn’t promote it through any pre-existing blogs that I run. All I did was read, write, and comment - here and on other blogs.

I encourage you to consider starting your own blog if you haven’t already. I’m pretty excited with the 30-day results and am looking forward to seeing the ProFreelancing community grow as I continue to dish out as much helpful information as possible.

Thank you to everybody who has subscribed to the RSS feed and commented on this blog - and even to those who have just stopped to see what’s up. I appreciate every one of you and look forward to having you visit in the future.

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