Hugh Hollowell

Well, I have learned a lot over the past few years I have been blogging. For example, I have learned how to drive local customers to a store with a blog and how to market yourself and achieve your goals through blogging. Pretty much any success I am now enjoying professionally is a direct result of my blogging.

Because of blogging, I have met some awesome people and made great friends. I want to share some of that, to talk about the lessons I have learned and still am learning and how we can use the blogging medium, as well as the Internet itself, to market our small businesses and achieve our goals. I want to talk about small business in general, about how owning a small business can help you achieve your dreams, as it has for me. And, I want to hear your voice as well; I want to build a community of small business owners and those who want to be, to be a resource for them, to help them find their souls again, to engage their passions again.

I have a reputation for being politically incorrect; you can expect that to continue. I see myself as a change agent; sometimes that gets messy and requires some sacred cows to get grilled. That’s OK, I can take the flak. Regardless, I will be out here, flailing away at windmills with my scruffy toothbrush, talking about blogging, small business, making your own way and living your own life. After all, the reason you went into business was to be able to meet life on your own terms, to find your own definition of success. I have found what mine looks like; perhaps we can help you find yours.

For a living these days, (barring investment income and residual income) I make money in two ways: I help people with blogging, with everything from setting up a blog for you from scratch to writing content to just getting you on the right track. The other way is as a freelance writer, doing everything from writing websites about golf to doing press releases to writing biographical articles for the not yet rich and famous. It is tough, it is gritty and it is the most fun I have had with my clothes on in years! I am living my dream, and I owe it all to the internet. I truly feel I am a lucky man.