This has been bubbling around in my brain for a while, but I finally decided to write about it.
I’ll admit, I’m having a blogging identity crisis.
When Chris & I started Mom’s Favorite Stuff, we wanted to write about products that are mom must-haves. We didn’t expect free product samples, and didn’t get them right away, but once we did, they flowed constantly (and still d0). I love doing product reviews and certainly can and do decline product samples. MFS gets lots of traffic, makes some good revenue, and in general, what I’ve been known for.
But lately, this blog has started getting more attention. With things like the Your Shape challenge, I’ve wanted to post on this blog, because it’s more of a personal challenge. And, with the Genesis Today event? I posted on MFS, but probably should have put it over here.
I don’t know what fits where, and I don’t know what people expect to see.
Help?
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Hmm… I would follow your instinct (trite, I know, but it works for me) but IMO, MFS seems clearly delegated to product things but here, by virtue of your name, it can be whatever you want. Maybe building out a separate fitness category would help.
Another option is starting a new blog entirely. This is what I did with PopDiscourse.com which truly is my personal blog. I don’t care about the metrics (actually, I don’t really look at metrics at Boston Mamas either…) and it’s purely my outlet, for all things random and interesting to me. It’s extremely liberating! At some point I realized I was writing less about pop culture (my original intent) and more about personal things, but then I decided I didn’t really care. Using comments as a barometer, people seem more interested in my personal ramblings than pop analysis anyway!
-Christine
Wow, it must be in the water! I blogged about my own identity crisis…well maybe of a more encompassing nature, but my blog and where to go with it was a big part of that. I’m grappling with keeping my personal blog and just building separate categories for the different things I wanted to discuss…but then I worry about trying to cover too much…but I’m afraid to start an all new blog and having to build readership all over again. UGH!!!
What you can do is maybe stream the MTM feed on the sidebar of MFS and vice versa.
I just went through a blogging identity crisis and it resulted in me leaving my “popular” parenting blog for my personal blog. I couldn’t take it anymore because I felt like I couldn’t be myself. I was hindering my success by hiding. Showing your personality is always good. Go with your gut and good things will happen!