Hey.
Putting yourself out there can be a challenging task. At least it is for me.
As I am working to advance my career, I’ve been hearing a lot about putting out your own content. Owning your own online space. I mean a space you can really call your own. YouTube is an excellent resource, but you don’t own the platform. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn are also great resources, but you don’t own those platforms, either, no matter how long you’ve been on them, how many posts or videos you’ve made, how many followers you have, or how many likes you get.
What I’m talking about is having your own website or blog, hosted on a domain that YOU OWN. And on there is where you can post all your content. Content is king. More content! Om nom nom, rawr, rawr, RAWR!!
I’ve been following John Sonmez for quite some time now. He’s an highly successful entrepreneur, and author of two best-seller books, Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual, and The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide. He’s also the founder of Simple Programmer, a site which helps software developers advance their careers, on both the technical and interpersonal sides. He also provides coaching in several areas of life such as business, health and fitness, personal finance, and mental & social advancement. He also created over 50 online courses for Pluralsight, which is a software developer training platform. I don’t want to seem remiss by leaving things off here, but in a nutshell, he provides lots of value to his customers, clients, and followers.
One of John’s products is a blogging course, Creating a Blog to Boost Your Career. It’s a free 5-part e-mail course that will help get you set up with starting and hosting your own blog website. It will walk you through finding hosting, coming up with ideas to post about, and getting traffic.
If you’re wondering how to take your software development career to the next level, be it getting a higher paying job, a raise, more freelancing clients, or raising your freelance rates, a blog may be just what you’re looking for. I’d recommend giving this free course a try.
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading!
– C. out.