What is the name of your Blog?Free Range Eggs
What is your name?
Phil Westwood
Where are you from? (include country, state and/or city)
Grantville, Victoria, Australia
What is your current age or age range?
62
Describe your blog
Life on a free range egg farm. Things that happen to make things a great day or a pain. Mostly it's pretty good!
Describe the main purpose of your blogging, what are you trying to accomplish?
To raise awareness about free range farming and let people know that we really live what they can see on our farm website.
What blogging platform do you do and why?
Blogger. Because as an uneducated computer user it seemed to be a simple way to get a blog up - and it worked!
What do you blog the most about?
Day-to-day stuff on the farm. Occasionally I stray into wider issues but the idea is to write about what happens on the farm.
What kind of blogs make you angry?
One's that seem to be totally meaningless and have ads everywhere.
Give five of your best blogging tips.
Keep blogs short and simple. Only blog about stuff you know. Write the way you talk (in other words 'be yourself') Don't be 'rude' but by all means be contraversial Post regularly (unfortunately I skip a few weeks sometimes)
What are some things you would NEVER blog about?
In the right forum anything goes - but on the farm blog I wouldn't touch anything not related directly to our farm.
Did you start blogging for the purpose of making money and if so, are you making enough money?
No. I started blogging to see if I could do it - the same reason I set up a website.
How long have you been blogging?
Two years.
About how many hours per day do you spend blogging?
Less than an hour.
Do you track RSS feeds and if so, how many do you usually track daily?
No. Don't understand that stuff.
Do you use Digg, and why or why not?
Don't know what it is.
Do you use Stumbleupon, and why or why not?
I have in the past, but since the advent of my new computer (with VISTA) that seems to have disappeared.
What promotional techniques work best for you and why?
For our business, word of mouth is by far our best promotion because we only sell our eggs within our region in South Gippsland.
If you could post a blog on any blog in the world, which one would it be and why?
There are so many blogs out there, I have no idea. I sometimes post on environmental blogs, and I am a member of Ecological Internet and various other forums such as Different Dawn. The main reason for being involved is the hope that maybe we can make a difference with whatever is the current issue - whether it's global warming or Whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Have you met anyone offline as a result of your blog?
No
What is the url of your blog?
Free Range Eggs
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