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Blogging for Hippo

Patrick Rauland
  1. Blogging for Hippo
  2. Schedule Sales with WooCommerce
  3. The Problem with Focus
  4. Give Thanks
  5. Be Thankful for the People Who Inspire You
  6. Give Yourself Space
  7. Build Resources From Support
  8. How Hard Can Membership Be?
  9. Adding Social Media Icons to WooCommerce Product Pages
  10. How to Export WooCommerce Subscriptions
  11. Upgrade Your Contact Form With Ninja Forms
  12. Why I Write
  13. Blog Comments Policy
  14. Content Marketing Works – Even with Furnace Filters
  15. Making Email from Your Website More Reliable with Email Delivery Tools
  16. A Happiness Podcast?
  17. Podcast Compensation
  18. Wishlists Done Right
  19. Enable Free Shipping on a Per Product Basis
  20. Improve Your Writing with the Hemingway Editor
  21. Tell Users What You're Doing
  22. 2014 Business Review
  23. Mind Your Own Business
  24. Think Different to 10x Your Business
  25. Let Projects Die
  26. Maximize Your Creative Energy
  27. Use Git Bisect to Find Bugs in Your Codebase
  28. My Personal Value of Remote Work
  29. Don't Spam Email Receipts
  30. Make Your Own Luck
  31. Cold Showers and the Power of Challenges

If you've been reading my blog for a while you might remember the Blogging for Benjamin challenge. It was a month long blogging competition organized by Daniel Espinoza to get you out of your comfort zone and I loved it. It was just challenging enough to post every day for an entire month and while it was a lot of work it was totally worth it. This year I'm participating in something slightly different. Our very own Bryce Adams set up Blogging for Hippo where we'll be blogging for an entire month leading up to the release of WooCommerce 2.3 – Handsome Hippo.

What I'm Expecting

I've already done this once and I know it was incredibly tough. Getting your butt off the couch to write a blog post on the weekend is pretty rough. This year since we're starting a bit early we'll be done on Christmas Eve which will give us a nice break after Christmas but it does mean working over Thanksgiving. sigh

Learning About Yourself

Even though it's definitely going to be tough I know it's going to be worth it. There's nothing like a good challenge to get my fire going again.

Last year after blogging every day for a month I learned how to write. What I liked writing, what I didn't like writing, what took the most time to write, and what resonated most with my readers. That's something that's really hard to learn when you blog once a month. When something is in your face every day for 31 days you can't ignore it as you might be able to do when you look at it once a month.

The Rules

The Camaraderie

I think one of my favorite parts about this competition is that I'm doing it with amazing people. I have an idea what I want to write about but I have no idea what they're going to write about. It could be WooCommerce, WordPress, Technology, or something totally unrelated and I love that. I don't get to spend a lot of time with my team so this is a nice way of interacting with them and learning a bit more about them and their passions through their writing.

Onto the competition….

All of these guys are going to produce some pretty epic content. And you can follow the thing on Twitter searching for #bloggingforhippo.

Happy blogging! 🙂

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