Welcome to my new blog!
To build on my momentum from 2024 where I started my weekly-ish newsletter, I’m creating a standalone website for all blogging activities outside of my regular newsletter cadence.
Reasons why I’m starting this blog
- Document my learnings publicly, so I have something to look back on and content I can share
- Build an audience and community interested in the things that I’m interested in
- Develop a writing habit and improve my written communication skills
- Have a creative outlet, start producing instead of consuming all the time
- Learn more about digital marketing and content creation
Tech stack + Cost of maintenance
- Namecheap for domain name – $3.68 / year (discounted rate for year 1)
- Bluehost for web hosting – $35.40 / year (discounted rate for year 1)
- WordPress for CMS (content management system) – Free
- GeneratePress WordPress theme – Free
- NordVPN for VPN – $41.89 / year (discounted rate for 2 years)
- Beehiiv for email newsletter platform- Free
Total cost for Year 1: $80.97
Goals for this blog in 2025
- Write at least 1 blog post per week
- Experiment and narrow down on a couple areas of interest I’d like to write more about
- Achieve 5,000 monthly page views!
- I have no idea how to accomplish this, but I’ll share progress as I go so we can see how I track against this in real-time
For anyone who stumbles on this first post, cheers! Here’s to a productive 2025 🎉