Blogger Information

Manav Mishra

Blogger’s Name: Manav Mishra

About Manav: I am not someone about whom you there is much to know about, quite a simple man. Apart from blogging I love photography, driving, cooking, and Urdu Shayari/Gazal (reading, writing and listening).

Age: 29

Occupation / Profession: IT Professional

Blog name and URL: We have a network of two blogs and a Forum
Technospot.net (www.technospot.net), Technospot.in (www.technospot.in) (Co-author and Partner), and Technospot.org (A forum)

Blog Focus Area, domain: Computer, Mobile and Internet on Technospot.net, and any Indian Stuff on Technospot.in

Blog launched on: Technospot.net was launched in October 2006, by Ashish, I became a part of Technospot.net in Dec 2007, and later We launched Technospot.in on August 15, 2009

Monthly visits (page views) on website: Sorry, Cannot disclose it.

Do you have team of bloggers?
Yes, Me and Ashish are the authors on Technospot.net, and We have two more authors who joined our team for Technospot.in (Shweta and Nidhi).

Interest / Activities: I don’t have any particular interest, I do whatever I feel like doing at the moment, however me and some friends, once a month collect some money and we either donate it to some organizations dedicated to help poor and needy, or by distributing food and other such stuff.

Located at: Pune

Contact Details:
Twitter Id: Manav1
Email ID: manavmishra@technospot.net

Q: When and why did you start blogging?
A: Ashish started blogging and later persuaded me to join him, I was not sure about if I can really write, and he kept telling me that I can, finally I decided to give it a shot, and my first ever post was published in December 2007, this was how I started, later, I fell in love with blogging, making an Identity for myself is something what I am looking forward too, I am planning to take blogging as a full time profession, provided things go well.

Q: What topics do you generally blog about?
A: Software and Internet Tools are the main parts of my domain; however now I try to write about anything (about India) which I think is worth a mention on Internet.

Q: What do you think is the best part of the blog?
A: This is something which is huge to talk about, however, it is easiest mode to express yourself, moreover, it is bliss to get a comment from a person whom your blog post helped, one such comment belittles thousands of comments who just say ‘Good Job, Very-well written’ etc. like comments.

Q: Do you ever get stuck when writing an entry? What do you do then?
A: If I am stuck with something specific, I put it on hold, and search for something else, and if I am not able to write at all, I take a break (this could be something ranging from few minutes to few days as well).

Q: What promotional techniques work best for you and why? Do you use social medias & Which?
A: We haven’t started promoting it really but Twitter and Facebook are ones where we do most.

Q: How important is it for the blogger to interact with their readers? Do you respond to all the comments that you receive?
A: Readers are more like a customer for a blog, hence interacting with them and listening to them is damn important in my opinion. Yes we try to reply all the comments, however sometimes the comments ask something which has been answered in the previous comments, in that case we skip.

Q: Share your favourite five blogs.
A: Digital Inspirations, Mashable, Ghacks, Life Rocks 2.0, Read Write Web.

Q: What do you find to be the most gratifying aspect of blogging?
A: As I said earlier about a comment which gives you real sense of appreciation, and the satisfaction you get to read it is awesome, I used to read the same comments several times a day when I had hardly 20 posts online.

Q: Do you generate income through your blog? If yes, how other should monetize their blog?
A: Yes, I do, I think Adsense, Impression Based Ads and Direct Sales are best.

Q: What is your advice to someone who wants to start a blog?
A: Decide your domain carefully, first make a list of first 20 posts and outline ready, else the biggest problem which I have seen people facing is, after writing first 5 posts you fall short of the ideas, and slowly you lose interest and finally one quits. For the first few months, only one rule is worth keeping in mind, ‘Content is King’, everything else, later.

Q: Let’s conclude off with a few favorites.
Color: Black
Movie: Into the Wild.
TV Show: None, I generally keep switching channels when in front of the TV.
Book: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach.
Time of Day: Whenever I make a call and hear my Mom’s voice over the phone.

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