About Me
Dear future audience and my new blog visitors,
I would like to introduce myself in this very first blog post.
This is Jonah, 28 years old and living in Hong Kong.
Before the pandemic, I was doing sales and marketing in a German company, and I had freelance marketing experience a bit from my college years.
After I understood how powerful marketing is and I wanted to improve myself at this field.
Unfortunately, marketing is very competitive area, and it is difficult to show myself if I start a project and do something from very scratch.
However, I fell in love with coding later and I told myself that I should learn coding , combine my marketing skill and coding skill and I should start a project.
All these things I imagined doing was not difficult to master, but we all have obstacles when we want to start a project.
This obstacle that stops me is lacking enough time.
I can’t create enough time to myself to be able to focus on my own project.
Especially after the work, I feel exhausting so that I don’t want to do anything at all.
But with the beginning of the new year, I put all my excuses aside and do something for myself this year.
Finally, I created this blog and started blogging.
My main purpose to start a blog is I want to keep my journal and track my own development here in my own blog.
Why will I do this?
Because I want my own social proof for my career development and my future relations.
Also, I set some targets within this year to be able to be better myself and I listed them below.
Let’s check them out together.
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Starting a WordPress Blog, Journaling My Development by Blogging
I mentioned I had marketing experience when I was in college.
Let me clarify this.
Because marketing is very broad field.
How did I gain my first marketing experience?
I was studying business in college and once I started studying I decided to follow all the economists in the country and read their blog.
One of the economist was suggesting in his blog, if you want to learn something journal your development in your blog and it will help you to learn faster.
I was trying to improve my Chinese and I decided to start a blog in blogspot back in the time.
I was creating content constantly about Chinese language.
After 6 months I started to reach the audience and my blog started to get comments.
However, I could not reach enough people as I expected.
I could not reach because I was blogging in my native language in Turkish and Chinese Language was not a high volume searched keyword monthly in my language.
Blogging and creating a content is the easiest part of this journey probably.
What makes it difficult is keyword research and choosing the right niche.
In my country people want to learn English as a second language, not Chinese.
Also, choosing the right CMS platform is important too.
I was using blogspot back in the time.
Today there are many other options.
My choice is WordPress.
2. Why Did I Want to Learn Chinese?
Because I live in Hong Kong for a while.
Maybe I won’t live in Hong Kong forever but I will feel really sad if I leave this beautiful city without learning Chinese Language.
This year I made a decision.
I will be at least intermediate Chinese Speaker and I will learn Mandarin.
I have not decided yet whether I will learn by myself or I will take a course but I 100% percent sure that I want to learn this language.
Also, I will be creating content about Chinese Language.
3. Learning JavaScript, React and Node.
JavaScript always looked very difficult coding language to me.
Beginning of 2022 I convinced myself to give it a try and learn JavaScript.
I can say I learned all the basics I guess.
Before I start this blog I thought a lot whether I should code my own CMS or blog in WordPress.
I came to decision that I don’t have enough coding knowledge yet to do so.
But I will master JavaScript this year and I would like to claim at least I can do the frontend part in coding.
This will be another topic that I will be covering in my blog this year.
4. Hong Kong Outdoor Activities
When it comes to outdoor activities, Hong Kong is really fun place.
Hiking, climbing, water sports etc…
You can have an amazing experience and time in Hong Kong.
My favourite is water sports.
Until the last year I feared water.
But I decided to overcome this fear but I did not know how.
I always wanted kayaking and I did not know whether I should know swimming to be able to kayak or not.
Because I was seeing people are doing this and It was looking really fun.
One day, we called one of the kayak rental company and they said no worries, you don’t need to know how to swim.
When we went there we expected to go on a daily kayak trip but no, they started to train us as a coach.
These trainings helped me to overcome my fears.
After that I started to learn swimming.
Today there are a lot of activities in Hong Kong for people to overcome their fears like I did.
In my new blog I will be writing about this as well.
5. Building Audience in Twitter/Instagram/Youtube (1000 followers)
In 2023 my target is reaching 1000 followers in one of the social media platform above.
Instagram and YouTube atracts me a lot to be honest.
But this is one of my target in 2023.
Summary
Long story short, this year will be challenging for everybody.
And I wish everybody a happy new year.
Trust the process and let’s be better ourselves.
I will see you in my next post.
See you until then.
Jonah…