Setting up a Marketing Campaign

When I went to Belize I started my first Blog.  That was six years ago. It was for the purpose of communicating with my friends and family all over the world - keeping in touch.  Like Facebook today, I guess but with a limited membership.  I had never attempted anything online before and it was quite simple.
The only snag was Google bought the one I started with and changed it to Blogger. Then the changes started.  Google calls them improvements but... Are they?  They only seemed ~ to me ~ to make life difficult.  

Anyway, I persevered and still have the Blog though it has been neglected of late. 

Then I was told that I should change to Word Press.  Boy, did I battle with that at first.  In fact it took me two years before I cracked it - not especially well and certainly I am not in any way an expert. 

I had taken lessons from various people.  Ron Passfield and Achim "Chef Keem" Thiemermann, for example, were really helpful and gave me a great deal of useful advice and training.  Then there was an Aussie, Rob Parnell, who taught me a lot about writing copy.  And so on.  The self-confessed marketing Gurus were not that helpful. I looked at Articles here and absorbed quite a lot.  All good.  

In the meantime another Aussie, Brendan Merrick introduced me to Wix and that was so easy I set up a site with them. I was making progress. 

I also started posting videos to YouTube.  My first one was  'Fall in Takayama' taken on my little Sony WS30 and the next I made from a slideshow which I called  'How to Make Orgonite'

A Facebook page followed and finally my About.Me splash page ~ is that the right term? ~ came into being.  This is a Switchboard for all my sites.  

At last I was ready for a WordPress site and over the past 8 weeks this has come into being. 

I have no idea how professional they look but one thing is for sure ~ I had fun making them all.