Thank You! One Year on

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At the end of July 2019 I decided to posting more regularly to my own blog and on the 5th August 2019 I posted my first video on YouTube. his post is to say thank you to anyone reading this and any other post or watching a video.

I remember being highly amused when I got 25 subscribers and when people I respected in the community re-tweeted my links to blog posts and YouTube videos. I find it amazing that in July 2020 I had almost 9,000 page views of my blog and over 3,400 views of my videos. They can’t all be my dad, can they?

So I would like to thank the people who read my blog posts, watched my videos, subscribed, re-tweeted and even tweeted their own tweets regarding my content. I’ve been unbearably happy when my posts have been included in community leader round-ups. It has now become a passion of mine to blog and record videos and every like, comment or smile I get is what I do it for.

If you haven’t yet found my YouTube channel it is at
https://www.youtube.com/lauragbpowerplatform

The Data

But let’s be honest really I like the numbers. The pretty charts that show numbers going up, the ways you can track what is going on it is all fascinating for a data geek like me. Without even loading data into Power BI I can get charts and see progress.

Page views on my blog from Google Analytics
Page views on my blog from Google Analytics
Google Search Console Results Chart
Google Search Console Results
YouTube Views
YouTube views

I am no expert on Google analytics and promoting sites etc. Megan Walker has done a great series on setting it up and click here to open it

Advice

When I first started my blog I got one piece of advice from a friend, Pieter Veenstra who has a very successful blog SharePains

Every time you are asked a technical question, write a blog post as the answer.

Pieter Veenstra 2019

I’ve not managed to follow that completly but it has meant I always have topics to blog or record about. I haven’t got organised enough to promise a post every week or a video every week. One pattern I will endeavour to follow though is every video gets a supporting blog post.

So to pass the advice on, if you get asked technical questions, start a blog or YouTube channel.

Thank You to everyone!

Over 20 year experience at being passionate about training, solving problems and loving a new challenge especially in the Microsoft's Power Platform suite.