The Art of Blogging and Teaching Online with Sumit Bansal [#TBS Eps 8]
Serial Blogger, MS Excel Exert & Blogging Coach Sumit Bansal talks about fundamentals of blogging, building credibility as a blogger, finding your audience, creating online courses and earning by blogging and offering online courses
In 2013, Sumit started the Trumpexcel blog, while working as business analyst at IBM, to simplify and teach Microsoft excel to his friends and colleagues. Today, his blog gets more than a million page view every month and his Excel courses have helped 1000s of students across the globe excel in their careers. Microsoft recognized Sumit’s work by awarding him the Most Valued Professional Award in Excel. His new blog, craft of blogging is aimed at helping new blogger common obstacles before gaining credibility and generating income through their blogs
Important Questions from the Episode
1. What got you hooked to Excel and Blogging? (4min,34s)
2. Do you have to be an expert to start a blog? (7min, 10s)
3. How did you overcome the imposter syndrome? (10min,25s)
4. How long did it take you to make a sustainable income through Blogging (14min,50s)
5. How do you build credibility as a new blogger? (21min)
6. How did you build your subscribers list? (25min)
7. Questions on Search Engine optimization (28min)
8. How do you decide what topics to write on? (35min)
9. How do you learn and master new concepts? (38min,30s)
10. Do you manage your blogs alone or do you have a team?(43min,25s))
11. Can you talk about designing and launching online courses? (45min,25s)
12. What are the different ways a blogger can money? (54min,20s)
13. Were there moments when you wanted to leave this and go back to your job? (57min,30s)
14. Sumit what are you expense while you are working on you own? (59min)
15. What are the tradeoffs of being on your own and not having a boss?(1hr,1m,25s)
16. What are MasterMinds groups (1hr,03m,45s)
Resources mentioned in the Episode
1. Youtube Cards & End Screen for promotional links
2. Backlinking articles (For SEO purposes )
3. Ahrefs (SEO Tool to increase search traffic. Not recommended for new bloggers)
4. Mail Chimp (Free tool for automated mailing)
5. Upwork – (Platform to hire freelancers)
6. Fiverr – (Platform to hire freelancers)
7. Camtasia – A Screen recorder and video editing tool to record laptop screens
8. Rode NT USB Mic – Mic to record videos. Not recommended for new blogger & Youtubers
9. Craftofblogging – Sumits blog about blogging
Links related to Sumit Bansal
7. Sumit’s Story in the Side Hustle School Podcast