I want to introduce you to an online entrepreneur, Jared M Lee, who has a blog which has “Everything you need to develop a Business online. Tips, resources, and helpful information for at home entrepreneurs.”  This blog is entitled The Bloggers Destop.

I subscribe to his feed via email to ensure I get every post. He brings up details I would never even think about – such as the post “Never send out a partial feed”.

The difference between this blog and a lot of blogs online is that this gentleman knows what he is talking about. He not only knows the principals, but he has used them successfully. He coaches beginners on building websites/blogs and on how to earn money on line.  I subscribe to his feed via email to ensure I get every post.  He brings up details I would never think about – such as the post “Never send out a partial feed”.

If you think you cannot find the time to put into your online venture, take a look at Jared. Jared has a family – a wife and two children. He is also in seminary which takes tons of time outside of class to study and write. On top of this already full schedule, he coaches individuals in online business and web development which takes at least an hour a week per individual on the phone. He also maintains his websites and blogs, plus keeps up to date with the online happenings and new developments. Then he participates in the web 2.0 social networks. If he can find the time to do this, anyone can.

If you feel you are too inexperienced to set up a blog/website or keep it up, Jared not only does coaching over the phone, but he also is offering an email support where you can send questions via email to him at a very small monthly fee. If you just can’t understand the workings to set up a wordpress blog, Jared has a service where he can build the site for you. All you will have to do is keep adding the content (posts) every couple days.

Jared is also great at working with adwords. You might be able to hire him to run an adwords program for you. You would need to talk to him about that.

Let me end by saying you are missing out if you don’t go visit and read The Bloggers Destop.

I have worked on computers for years.  I know the one secret passed on from one computer worker to another is ‘be sure to keep your work backed up’.  I remember one day when a server crashed at work.  One of my friends had been working on a project for 3 months – and kept it all on the server since it was a shared application he was building.  Come to find out, the person in charge of backing up the server every night had not been checking it.  The automatic backup had quit working 3 months before.

Last night I decided to change the theme to one of my blogs Be The Weight You Want.  I had exported my posts and everything before when I moved it off the wordpress.com.  Then I had done an export once in a while to backup my work.  I had also been warned by others and by reading about blogging to keep my work backed-up.

Guess what?  I didn’t back it up.  I started running into problems and still didn’t make an export file.  Then I was locked out of the site admin – no way to do an export then.  And no recourse but to uninstall the wordpress, then re-install it.  Luckily, I decided to save it the hard way – go to every post and page and save the html.  At least that way I saved all my posts.

Do you back up your work regularly?  It is much easier to export your posts and comments, etc, and save them to your hard drive than it is to save every page.  And with the export file, you can import them back in when you re-install.  All the dates, tags, categories, comments – everything comes right back up.

Why should you backup your blog?  To protect your work – that you put time and effort into.  The work that made your blog’s ranking in the search engines.  The work that people come back to even months after you published it.  The work that goes out over your RSS feed.

Anyone else had to go through this?  Leave a comment and tell your experience, or any tips you have for safeguarding your work.