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Interview with Kamil, creater of BlogSoc.com

If you have been reading or writing blogs for more than a day you are familiar with widgets like mybloglog, in fact if you look at my sidebar you’ll see a bunch of pictures. That is the mybloglog widget and while its a nice widget and allows me to know and sometimes contact the readers of my blog, it is severely lacking, and that is where BlogSoc.com comes into play.

BlogSoc.com is the creation of Kamil Kwiecien, I found out about BlogSoc.com when I stumbled across Kamil’s blog my-first-million-dollars.com back in early August. My first comment was “The only one going to make any money will be the people running the network.” Kamily quickly replied and I realized my quick judgement of it was completely wrong and decided to educate myself about it and signed up an account. Two months, 100 members and countless new features later, I decided now was a good time to interview Kamil.

The Interview

KingJacob:First for those who may never have heard of blogsoc could you give a 2-3 sentence elevator pitch of what blog soc is?

Kamil:BlogSoc.com is bloggers community site. It is place where bloggers can meet blog readers and exchange opinions, ideas. Where for socializing You can earn shares in community earnings.

KingJacob:What made you want to create blogsoc?

Kamil:I have created BlogSoc.com because other blogger communities don’t provide everything I want, and they earn money thanks to people socializing, when those people doesn’t.

KingJacob:With most blogs already using site like mybloglog, how do you plan to get blogs to change to blogsoc?

Kamil:I’m also using MyBlogLog ;). They have one good widget thats all. I offer BlogSoc.com members opportunity to earn money on socializing. The earn share is BlogSoc.com earnings end in this way also monetize their Blogs. BlogSoc.com have now very similar tool like other blogger communities, and we are developing new to make BlogSoc.com even more attractive and useful for our members.

KingJacob: Have you ever been involved in building a large site like this?

Kamil:Yes, but it was online game, so different market. I’m using now this experience to create better community page.

KingJacob:How old are you?

Kamil:I’m 23.

KingJacob:where are you from?

Kamil:I’m from Poland, Warsaw.

KingJacob:Is english Your first language?

Kamil:My first language is polish, I’m still learning english, having blog helps me with it.

KingJacob: What type of education, certifications do you have?

Kamil:I’m student on Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology on 4′th year. I have Zertifikat Deutsch in German, and LCCI SEFIC Level 2 in English.

KingJacob:You also run a blog my-first-million-dollars.com, how has blogging been going for you?

Kamil:Blogging is my hobby, thanks to this I have met lots of great people around the world. I have this blog for 4 months now, and it’s subscribers number is growing.

KingJacob: What one tip would you give to those launching a blog, website or any product?

Kamil:Be patient. Really. If You don’t have 4 digit budget for advertisement, everything must take some time. I see this on my projects, they are developing slowly but after few months results are good visible.

KingJacob: When did blogsoc first launch?

Kamil:I have bought domain BlogSoc.com on 2007-07-14.

KingJacob: How many users does blogsoc now have?

Kamil:BlogSoc.com have now 119 users. Part of them have unactivated accounts, so it’s about 100 active members.

KingJacob: Do you have an eventual plan to monetize blogsoc?

Kamil:Yes. We want to monetize BlogSoc.com now because we need some money for advertising. There are 3 ad spots available for sale $25/month each. After our community will reach 300 members we will start monetizing BlogSoc for our members. They will earn money from shares in BlogSoc.com earnings.

KingJacob: About how many hours a day do you spend working on BlogSoc.com?

Kamil:Always between 3 to 6 hours.

KingJacob: Currently you have the blog popularity tool and recent viewers tool, Do you have any more tools you plan to launch in the near or distant future?

Kamil:Yes. I’m planning to launch tool to share rss news from our members sites.

Note: This tool has now launched and there are still a few bugs but I think its way better than BlogRush already.

KingJacob: Besides the prospect of possible earnings why do you think people will join blogsoc.com?

Kamil:Because of good tools and great members which number is growing every day.

KingJacob: Do you code in polish or english?

Kamil:I code in PHP ;), comments are in english.

KingJacob: Are you the only person working on it?

Kamil:No. I have hired graphics designer to make nice looking design which we have now. All coding I have done myself. Basic idea was mine, but now I’m co-working with other BlogSoc.com members, their opinion is very important for me.

KingJacob: How do you pronounce your last name?

Kamil: It should be like this: Kviecien.

I hope you like BlogSoc.com as much as I do, though please realize it is a work in progress and is a Blog Society. You may get a bit more traffic or a few buck from using BlogSoc but the main reason to use BlogSoc is to help create and be part of an online society for bloggers complete with all the necessary tools,widgets, communication bloggers need to truly network without being bombarded by spam and unrelated content. I think BlogSoc is a little edgy right now but with a bit more work and time I believe it will be the Facebook of Bloggers sites.

What are yalls impressions about BlogSoc.com?

P.S. KingJacob is my screen name I use everywhere if you didn’t know so if you see a kingjacob on a site or forum its probally me.

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