By Mary Hill
Successfully growing a blog does not happen overnight, not even in a matter of months. Profitable blogging takes contacts and know how which is why I am excited to share a special community that will help you in blogging endeavors.
The Blog Workshop is where blogging meets business. It is kind of like our Thursday Linking with My Ladies Bloghop but only bigger. You connect with other successful bloggers to get tips, ideas, and resources to improve your own blogging.
In this community, you can share ideas through Tuesday Twitter sessions. Guest experts join in the chat sessions answer questions on a variety of topics such as how to successfully utilize Facebook fan pages to increase readership or to answer your questions about other social media sites like Pinterest or Instagram. To learn more about the Tuesday Twitter chats visit the main site at: http://theblogworkshop.com/groups/twitter-chats/forum
If you want to go even further and turn your blogging efforts into a real career, you can join The Blog Workshop University. The Blog Workshop University is an important sector of The Blog Workshop teaching community. The mission is to facilitate the learning of bloggers and vloggers so they can be forces in the blogging industry. Courses offered in the university program include Blog Design, Blog Writing, and Blog Business. The University officially opens in Spring 2014. Bloggers can enroll now and receive a tuition discount. To learn more visit this website: http://theblogworkshop.com/university.
In the meantime, the next blogger workshop opportunity is set for July 24. Click on the video below to learn more about the workshop. It is a don’t miss opportunity!
To register for the next workshop link up at : http://theblogworkshop.com/workshops .
Disclaimer: The opinions featured today are my own. I have been compensated for this piece.

I am not satisfied with blogging at the moment, perhaps you don;t this I started blogging in 2006.
A very successful blog but because of not very nice comments(I can take critiscm) but not abusive comments. I deleted my blog then had a series of blogs that Chrome would not accept after a few weeks. I have my existing blog and it’s been an uphill struggle to get followers. I spend hours commenting on the ones I follow but perhaps I may get five or nine at the most, I join in most of the blogfest enjoy blogging and have a few “Faifhful” followers. But this past week I am gradually losing follwers. If people knew hard some days it is to comment because of pain in hands but don’t like to let people down, I am at the crossroads of my blogging life to continue or not.
Yvonne.