Living with a Mommy Blogger
August 30th, 2010 by Renzi Stone. Posted in Entertainment, Industry Expertise, Tips and Tricks
A couple of years ago, my wife Lee Anne started a blog about our family. At first, it was just a tool to share pictures and stories about our young family with our friends and family. She used the easy setup at BlogSpot (now blogger) and with a few clicks, she was up and running. Her early posts concentrated on our parenting skills, new experiences with children and some of her general philosophies about life. Then, our second son, Isaiah, was born and diagnosed with epilepsy.
I began to get engaged in the blog, and together we began posting as doctor visits, hospital stays and uncertainty set in. Our posts about regular life turned into rollercoaster stories of heartache and faith and our collective struggles. Lee Anne added a hit tracker in April, even though she had quite a following already, just to see how many people were visiting. Her blog went from zero to 35,000 hits over the course of three months, culminating with thousands of hits a day when we lost our precious son in May. It was on our blog that we announced that he passed away.
Since then, Lee Anne went back to serving as the primary author on her blog, and I have gone back to my business blog. We haven’t spent a lot of time talking about her blog as a tool for communicating until this weekend, when she was asked by a fellow mommy blogger to make a guest post, a strategy that savvy mommy bloggers are using to increase their page views. She was flattered to find out that this stranger reads her blog.
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