Do Bloggers Actually Support Themselves? Self Evaluation Time!!
Supporting other bloggers? Surely they’re your competition… Why would you want to help them? Sadly, I think there are people who do actually think this way. For me, this attitude is the complete opposite to the attitude you should have about your fellow bloggers.
Most of this comes down to good karma. If you put in the work to help others. You know what? They’ll be more inclined to help you in return. This is called the Law of Reciprocity.
Do you remember the person who you tweet and who never responds? Nope, you will be too busy with the people who do respond. The person you retweet and support, yet they never retweet for you? The person that never responds to the comments you leave on their blog; will you keep visiting and commenting? Probably not.. You see this blogging thing is reciprocal, you get out what you put in.
Bloggers need other bloggers. The blogging community wouldn’t be nearly as successful as it is if it weren’t for bloggers supporting other bloggers. Collaborations are hugely important in the blogging community for many reasons. Sometimes, you have to ask yourself this question, “how successful is your blogging career?
When I started blogging, since it was the most frequently given advice, I took it seriously and started working like a machine. Posting every day became my ultimate goal and I stopped paying heed to the content quality. After a month long writing spree, when I sat down to have a look at my stats, I couldn’t help noticing one thing. No matter how much I blog, Monday used to be the only day of the week observing a huge spike in traffic (80-100 visitors), the rest of the week falling flat with anything from 10 to 20 visitors a day. And the reason was pretty clear – Mondays were spared out for interacting with the fellow bloggers. So I slowed down writing for a week and started spending more time networking in the blogging community. The results were exactly as I expected and I understood where I was going wrong. Networking is inevitable when it comes to blogging because it’s not you but other people who would form the reason for your success. If you have read my blog post “Reasons Why Your Blog Gets No Traffic” ,You will understand the importance of supporting other bloggersReason why you should support your fellow bloggers are:
1. You need to discover in order to be discovered – Why Are You A Blogger? There’s no point of writing blogs if people aren’t reading them. You might be working really hard but let me tell you the fact that would help you stand out in your blogging journey. You need to discover others in order to be discovered. Blogging is not a one-way traffic that can bring you instant success just because you have been putting up content on a regular basis. There are millions of blogs out there and yours is not an easy one to be found. People won’t come finding your blog to read them. You have to get them to your website and you have to give them a good reason to keep coming back. This requires effective promotion of your blog by posting comments on other people’s blogs. And don’t just drop comments for the sake of it. Comments like ‘Nice post’ and ‘Amazing blog’ would hardly bring any traffic. Your thoughts need to be insightful and should represent your blog in general.
2. They can be your support system and can be your source of learning – I remember writing something short and precise on my blog in September,2020. I wasn’t personally satisfied with what I wrote but I posted it anyway because I hadn’t posted something for weeks and I thought it would be better to post something than leaving the site look unattended. Shortly after the blog came up, a fellow blogger was kind enough to drop in a mail that the post looks incomplete and that she was left wanting for more. I thanked her for her valuable insights and realized how important it is to get people’s feedback to improve your work. I removed that post immediately as it looked more like a liability to me than to be of any use to my readers. Also, as a blogger, you should never post something that doesn’t satisfy you in the first place. Networking with bloggers can help solve the biggest of your problems but you should be open to comments and criticisms and use them to add value to your work.
3. Learning from their successes and getting inspiration – Your blogging network is your biggest resource when it comes to bringing up new content for your blog. Every time I feel short of the ideas, I go through some of the best blogs in the industry to see what’s working for them. Their blogs can be a great source of ideas for your own blogs and their posts can help you learn a lot as a reader. Heading over to other blogs for ideas isn’t a bad thing unless you copy their work and serve nothing from your own perspective. There are hundreds of bloggers to be inspired from and networking with them can help you learn a lot from their successes.
4. Collaborative projects with fellow bloggers – When I started interacting actively in the blogging community, I learned that it’s your only way to gain exposure while you are trying to establish yourself. There are bloggers who need guest posts for their blogs and there are others who have amazing content to offer to the former. Interaction alone can help you gain a lot of opportunities in an otherwise saturated blogging industry. And opportunities are not limited to writing guest posts, but also sponsored posts, affiliate marketing and access to interactive communities having thousands of followers. So if you plan to ditch the isolation, interaction with bloggers can land you some amazing collaborative projects with some of the best in the industry which is a win-win situation for both the parties.
5. Blogging can sometimes be lonely – Okey, so here comes the sad part. Blogging sometimes can get lonely which is what separates it from the corporate work environment where you are surrounded by people all the time. So there’s no harm in making friends who can make this otherwise lonely journey interesting for you. Even if you are a self-sufficient human being who is happy with herself, you will definitely want to seek a varied set of opinions on your work. That’s when your blogging network comes handy.
When I initially started interacting with fellow bloggers, I used to find it time-consuming and contrary to my personality as I’m not so much into online interactions. But I realized that it’s impractical to survive in the blogging world without interacting with the ones in the blogging industry. If you want to be read, you have to interact regularly. Yes, it’s not an easy task to keep doing that but it gets easier if you manage your time properly. If an hour of your day goes in to writing, be ready to spare another one hour to market that content. To write once a day and being able to market it to 500 people is any day better than writing 5 days a week hoping that someone will come finding you. All you need to remember is that quality matters over quantity, and it’s completely alright to serve just one quality article every week that is at least worth your readers’ time.
So when I decided I would put up the topic, I wasn’t worried at all. Its all about the truth. Unfollow them if you can’t support them. It wouldn’t hurt if you showed them a little support. This isn’t my first blog post directed towards the importance of supporting bloggers because I have realized there is no blogging without bloggers. The blogging community is really large and we should learn to interact and appreciate ourselves. It makes no sense if you follow them and don’t acknowledge their efforts. We should do better than that. No likes,no comments,no support,no encouragement?! Unfollow them!!!
I believe that not supporting others is not a winning choice; interacting with other people, is the first way to get to know and be known also, to create a good friendly atmosphere, which helps the blog to “have a long life” over time. people want to feel welcomed and create circular relationships is a great way 🙂
great post 🙂
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Thank you giusy. You are absolutely right🧡❤
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❤❤🤗🤗
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Much love🧡
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🌻❤
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Great postt with tried and true tips.
I always LOVE your content. I’m glad you aren’t posting as much cuz i don’t want to miss anyting and I can’t keep up with that many in a day. As our sites grow, it’s not possible! ❤️❤️❤️
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I really took your advice and its really helping me. I got to realize that content matters more than the number of posts you make. Wouldn’t have known that if I wasn’t networking with you. I really appreciate your contributions to my blog. Much love🧡❤
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Oh I’m sooo glad that it’s helped!!!! Thanks for sharing that with me. I’m blown away at how much content and information you deliver but I agree with you about how much we can process at once. Even my 3 times a week posts feel like too much. We’ll see. You are so welcome and you to mine. We will do that interview when you get a hit of how you might want to engage with me. Have a great day! ❤️
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I really appreciate that. Being quite busy and haven’t really thought about the interview but I won’t call it off. Much love cindy🧡
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Great post and you are right on! Many want the followers but don’t do anything to even say thanks or like your content or follow back. I’ve had so many blogs throughout the years. I’m starting a new one now for my small business, so here I go again building a community lol.
http://www.higoandmiel.com
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Quite like me. I’ve had 7 blogs since last two years. Each one just seems to have issues when I start it up but I learnt from my mistakes and settled for this one. I’m glad I’m moving along. I really support your opinion, it isn’t much about following a blog or blogger but how much support you can offer. I hope your business turns out well. What’s it about anyway? Definitely going to support you. Much love🧡
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Oh you’re so sweet and thank you! I sell hand-poured candles but you know it’s not only about selling but also about giving others, so I love to blog. But managing a business and blogging can take up your time lol.
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It really does take up valuable time but…..its a hobby for me so it isn’t so hard. I really love writing. Before I started blogging, I was always busy on wattpad or other websites I could write or read stories. I’m glad blogging helps me to achieve both aims. Have a great day🧡
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It’s a choice Anita
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You are quite right but networking and proper communication is essential for a blogger. Be blessed👍🏻
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That is what most bloggers don’t know. You help oneself in lifting others
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There you go. Thanks for contributing Joshua🧡👍🏻
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Stop thanking me. It’s something I have to do since the day I resolved to be a blogger
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Really? Thats so sweet 🥺🥺🥺🧡
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I noticed you reblogged my post. That is really encouraging and nice. Thank you so much🧡👍🏻. Goodnight
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Great post, I really do also believe in supporting other bloggers ❤
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It really is the best thing to do. Goodnight🧡
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I’m a new blogger and trying to get the hang of WordPress more, so this post is what I needed. Your emphasize on blogger interaction encourages to me to share my thoughts to the writer, after reading their blog. It is also inspiring to know how much bloggers depend on one another. Your words demonstrate the blogging community as unifying, rather than competitive. It makes me very excited to share my content, while ensuring my interaction with other writers. I’m learning so much so far, and now I trust I will gain more knowledge to be a better blogger. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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First, I would say “welcome to the community or rather family”. I trust you will excel with your blog. I’m glad my post could contribute positively to your blog and blogging experience and that’s really rare. The blogging community is quite unifying for me despite many people have a twisted belief about that. I really appreciate your contribution to my blog. Better days ahead Tiffany🧡. Much love❤
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Great post. I agree it doesn’t take anything off people to support other bloggers. Liking commenting and genuinely engaging.
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You’re quite right there….it really doesn’t cost anything. Good morning and thank you for your contribution🧡👍🏻
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Hi Anita! Nice post. I enjoyed this, and feel the same. Collaboration, is a good idea. At the moment, I’m not sure how we could collaborate together, as I have not thought about it enough….and I am a bit reserved and cautious when thinking about collaborating….Having bad experiences in the past tends to leave bad notes in my mind. But, I would be willing to hear ideas. I think it is difficult, I’ll speak for myself, to consider collaborating with other bloggers, when perhaps, my subject matter is very different from others who are open to the idea of collaboration. So, if one blogger, for example, specializes in ‘Oil’, and the other blogger specializes in ‘Water’, then, in the physical world, those two things don’t mix well together. So, how do bloggers with very different topics collaborate? What are the connections? How can bloggers like these two in my example, do something to get the other blogger’s subscribers interested in your content?
I guess, your post has me thinking about the topic again.
I have collaborated in the past, but it wasn’t all that fulfilling, that’s another issue, I guess …. If nothing else, I did enjoy reading your post.
Take care!
Nawfal
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I really love your point and your questions are really important. I will dedicate my time to write a post that would enlighten you more on what you asked. Collaboration is quite hard and currently, i’m collaborating with 2 of my good blogger friends and I think it’s quite nice. There is always a way to connect two opposites together and I believe I can make out enough points to convince you in my next blog post. Thank you for your contribution. Good morning🧡🧡
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Thanks! It will be nice to see your thoughts on this. All the best!
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Sure. I just made a blog post for it. Read and enjoy🧡🧡
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Supporting others means supporting yourself in the long run especially in the case of blogging. Only celebrity can stay calm and their followers will find them anyway. Nice post, it was a learning experience as well.
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Quite right Krishna👍🏻. Thank you for reading and commenting🧡
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You are welcome(^.^)
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True! Awesome! Brilliant! Wonderful
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Great Post!
It’s sad to have an inactive audience
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Tell me about it.
Its quite discouraging.
Appreciated for leaving a comment.
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Bogging is definitely a community and we need to support each other. It’s just as rewarding as writing the posts.
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Or blogging – clearly typing is not a strength!
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Thanks for visiting my blog and encouraging me to come over here and see you. Once you get past a certain number of subscribers WordPress cuts off the number of blogs m you can see in your Reader even if you’re following them. I rely on people to comment on my posts so that I can see them. Some people don’t know where to find their comments because they don’t use the dashboard.
But if my comment gets a like and no response, I will assume that this person is not interested in having a conversation. My absolute pet peeve is when someone waits two weeks to answer my comment after everyone else reading the blog post has responded to me.
I think that taking time to respond every comment slows us down and gets us in reflective mode. And that is extremely good for creativity.
And you are right, there is a not enough time worry about what bloggers are (not) doing.
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Visiting your blog was really interesting for me. I didnt know about the limited view of blogs and this kinda explains why I miss out some blog posts sometimes. Thanks for the info.
I usually kinda get pissed off when I spend so much time on someone’s blog only to receive little acknowledgement for that. I usually didn’t pay much attention to blogs and their contents but suddenly, I started going down with my views and likes until I started interacting with the community here. Some bloggers are really nice people and you are one of them. I really hope we can keep in touch and become friends, what do you think about that?
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That would be fantastic. Thank you so much for reaching out. I always make time for friends so visit me any time. And I will definitely look out for you in my Reader.
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You are welcome. So Glad you visited. Always expect my comments❤
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When I observed Traffic will be mostly on Monday and Saturday 😊 you written facts and information is very clear.
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Thank you so much for your lovely comment❤❤
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Absolutely right,👌👌👌❣️❣️❣️
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Great post! Engaging with others and supporting each other is very important! Thanks Anita💗💗
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Definitely.
Supporting other bloggers is the best way to grow your blog and the best part is that it isn’t difficult to do that.
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Thank you for your lovely comment❤
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Definitely
Thank you❤
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Reblogged this on Bien-Être pour Bien Vivre and commented:
Thanks Anita for your wise advice! Supporting each other is what we need to do here. I use a translator ( copy the text to Google) for the blogs written in foreign languages when they don’t have the translation widget! Read ( I don’t Like it when I get continuous notifications…it means the person reading has not read anything…just liking without reading😕), Like (if you truly like/appreciate the post) & Comments (sincere comments even if you don’t 💯 agree with the post!)
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Thanks so much for re blogging this on your blog. I also make use of the google translator and to be honest, supporting bloggers can be time consuming but I always find a way to blend it in because I discovered that its the key to success. Thank you so much Mimi
I quite agree with all you have written❤
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SMiles Annabel
My Entire 9 MiLLioN
Word Free Verse EPiC
Long Form Poem Is
Poetic Responses And
Or Messages To Folks
Around The Globe
i Never Give Now
With Expect
Of Return And
In Fact Science
Shows When We
Wire Ourselves to
Give Without
Expect Of
Return
We Are Naturally
Rewarded By Nature
Yes God This Way
Within
Eternally
Now Yet
It Will Not
Work If The
Giving Is not
Compassion Filled
As Indeed Compassion
At Essence is A Self
Healing
Cocktail
Of Neurochemicals
And Neurohormones
That Make Heaven
Within
Real
As We
Only Travel
To Give So True
The Teachings Far
Beyond Just The
Man
Of Jesus
In All We Need to
Do Is Give Love When
True And Spirit Filled
Sincere
Is Yes Even
A Science Proven
Way To Attain And
Maintain
Heaven Within
Ignorance Has
Asked Me Many
Instances Why Are
You So Happy
Not Making
A Penny In
Life With
No Reason
To Get Something
Material in Return
And Then i Tell
The So-called
“Christian”
Give
Without
Expect Of
Return And Truly Love
It’s True The Essence
Of The Teaching
Is Truth
In Light
L O V E
It Matters
Not Who Brings
A Message Of Giving
Love the
Giving
Of Love
Now to Others
With No Expect of
Return Meanwhile
Folks Are Waiting
For The
“Star Of The
Show” To Return
Making Fun of
The Physically
Capable Homeless
Person Dealing
With Invisible
Suffering
Of ‘Demons’
Within When
If Someone Would
Just Visit Him And
Or Her As Human And
Treat
Them
That Way
They Might
Just Help Them
To BREaTHE Soul Again
Only Way To Do This
Is Do Our Best
To Fit
In Shoes
Of Love With Others
Blogs Will Be Just
Another
Avenue
To Spread
Wisdom Of Love
Courage Kindness
Fearless
Free
With
Least
Harm
Yet
One Must
Learn To
Accept The
Differences
Of Others And
Have Strength
Enough To
Defend
What
They
Believe
In Without
Sending Different Away
Yep Gentile Jew Servant
Free Woman And Or Man
No Labels
For Love
Yet
Giving
More Love Now
If Science Agrees
‘Christians’ Shall
Become
Love too
Giving One Will Hope…
Yet Remember it’s not
The Form Of One
Man
It’s The
Color Of
Love That
Gives Essence
Of God In Deeds of Give…
And Yes Of Course As the
Story Of JeSuS Teaches
When We Empty Our
Pockets
Of Gaining
Material
Goods We Will Be
Much More Successful
Obviously Giving When We Don’t
Spend Our Lives Expecting
Receiving
Yes Science
Proves
This
Teaching
Of Jesus
Correct And
You Will Find
Homeless Folks
Doing The Same
Too Living off The
Kindness Of Others
That is Most
Ironically
Kindness
Provided
By Those
Who Follow
Giving Love
With No Organized
Religion Yet Giving Love
Why Did
Jesus Stray
Away From
Organized
Traditional
Religion And
Break The Sabbath
For It is True The Very
Nature of Tradition is to
Exclude Those
Who Are Not
Part of
Whatever The
Organized
Religion
Is And This is
Why Jesus Would
Not Be Accepted
Today If Returned
The Same
Way He
Came
Before
As Muslim
Buddhist
And Hindu
Yes Atheist
Too Whoever
Welcomes All
Into The
Kingdom
Yes Queendom
Of Love For All
Will Be
The Only
Human
Souls
To Rest His
Home Love For
All Yet Again
This
IS A
Good Cop
Version of Jesus
In The Bible Not the
Matthew Version that
Changes Christian Sheep
Who Do Not Care For
Homeless in The
Street
To Goats
And Burn
Them Forever
In Torture For
The Human Without
Love To Give The
Homeless
Is Truly The
Homeless One
Already Burning
In Hell
Who
Needs
A Hand Up
Most Yep Be The
Good Version of
Jesus Per
Teaching
Not Just
The Common
Trump Version
Firing Folks Forever
Who Do Not Bend
Over And Worship
Selfish Organized Traditions🔥
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This is really great❤
Have a nice day
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You
Too
Dear
Annabel
Thank You
With
SMiles
Dear
New
FRiEnD
From Nigeria❤️😊🙌
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You are really very kind❤🥺
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I don’t care.
I can support all the bloggers.
I m not a that kind of attitude person.
I’m competition of myself and not for others.
Please follow me all.
I m ready to always support you guys.
Visit my site:
sreenadhraj.com
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Thats really a good attribute of a blogger. I’m glad you are willing to support everyone and I will support you too.
Good night❤
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Good night dear
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Thanks
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That’s so true, I find it irritating 😒 if you don’t want to interact or anything why on the earth did you followed my blog???!!! Still I try my best to talk to them but they just don’t care, it really puts me off 😐😐
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I really get pissed off too, some follow but don’t bother about your contents while others may just randomly like your posts. I try to show so much attention to those who visit my blog often and I always support them too. Thank you for commenting and visiting❤
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Ive found that interacting with other bloggers has been the most unexpected perk of having a blog. A great reminder, and those who do not participate are surely missing out🌺
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They are definitely missing out a lot🤞🏼
Lovely comment dearie❤❤
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Really helpful tips. It’s a community and we need to support each other.
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Thank you Joanne…Are you Nigerian?
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Yeah.😊 How did you guess?
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I know my sister when I see one😅😅
Beautiful you..🤗🤗
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Yeah, we know ourselves 😁😊
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Yes we do🤗❤
Let me quickly add you up to my list of special blogs😏😏
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You have a list?😅
I’d like that very much
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Yes….I have a list😅😅
A list is important when you have about 500+ followers…
Some people just follow to be followed and I like to fish them out😅😅
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Yeah, that makes sense.
I do like your blog posts though. They’re really fun and informative.
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Thank you Joanne….that means a lot🤗🤗
Wanna hear a secret?
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For sure!
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