Many of you probably know Bud Hennekes, but I would highly recommend you listen to his interview for his insights on blogging and life.
- Taking tragic experiences and finding motivation in them
- How to pursue your passions and the issues with the education system today
- The advantage of being young and being in college when it comes to your business
- Using healthy competition with another blogger to get more motivated, and the payoffs that could results from it
- The Launch of Reality Switch
- Leveraging networking and guest posts to grow traffic
- Exponential Growth and hanging in there
- Multimedia content and the future of blogging
- Why you should respond to every single comment on your blog especially if you’re an up and coming blogger
- Why going off the deep end and sharing your failures might be the best thing you can do for your blog
- Why you have stay hungry even if you are ahead of the game
- Why we can learn anything we want to learn and there’s no excuses
Bud Hennekes is an 18 year old blogger who is dedicated to changing the way people think about themselves. His blog www.aboundlessworld.com empowers people to create and live in a blissful reality. His hobbies vary depending the day but more often than not he enjoys meditating, reading, connecting, and writing.
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Hey Srinivas and Bud,
I loved this interview. I know you were talking about the blogger who reached out to his readers about my low readership. Since then, I’ve worked through the hard time and moved on. My readership is growing slowly and I’m enjoying blogging.
It helps that I have regular communication with other bloggers.
I totally agree with you that you have to reply to comments on your blog. This builds loyalty for your readers like nothing else.
Gordie´s last blog ..Why You Should Make Your Life Remarkable.
@Gordie: I’m glad you enjoyed the interview. It’s good to heard that you are growing readership and more importantly enjoying the process of doing it.
Srinivas Rao´s last blog ..Interviews with up and coming Bloggers: Bud Hennekes
Srini!
I’m only at 14:21 in the interview, right where you guys talk about video.
Let’s just say I’m going to be shooting some video very soon, on a very, very regular basis. What will it be?
I don’t know, but NOBODY’s doing it, so it looks like I’ll be pioneering it.
You heard it here first.
Brett – DareToExpress.com´s last blog ..Breaking Free – Eschewing Conventional Blogging Wisdom
Hey Srinivas: Thanks again for the guest post and interview. A bit shaky on my part. But not bad.
@Brett: Excited to see your videos. I’ve been making a ton of videos lately as well.
Bud Hennekes´s last blog ..Your Only Competition: You
Hey Srinivas.
Good interview hosting here. Glad to hear it.
Good point about pushing “Publish” when some tough stuff to post comes to mind. Those are some of the best posts. We are not so different from each other as people, so they aren’t taken the wrong way.
Also, on the point about time management, Bud got it clear there. Anyone can make time for the things they want to do. I don’t see anyone angry all day long because of a lack of time. I say if you are going to be angry about something, you should be consistently angry about it until you fix it, or else it’s fake.
Srinivas bringin’ the audio~
Armen Shirvanian´s last blog ..You Don’t Know What Works Until You Fully Try
@Brett: I’m excited to see what you are going to do with your video work. Let us know how we can contribute at all to your project.
@Bud: I think you were great. I think, both my readers and I learned alot from the interview. I’m glad we got a chance to connect.
@Armen: I think it’s going to be interesting when I start pushing publish even more on crazier things. To me that’s often the moment in which a blogger has found his or her voice.