This is my story of Blogging, in which you will get the best quote with example of my experience “Failure is the key to success”. Lets have a look!
Hello! Everyone, my name is Saba Malik and I believe that “failure is the key to success”. I am an entrepreneur from Chiniot, Pakistan. My journey started 4 years ago when we didn’t have enough resources to continue education. I started freelancing as a #contentwriter and got my first project of content writing within 1 day.
In the next 2 days, I did jump from content writing to academic writing and found 3 new projects. It does happen in one week. Here at this point, I have 2 permanent clients who give me orders regularly. Within this duration I got 2 more clients who gave me weekly projects, I was earning a good amount which helped me complete all resources for education and other expenses.
A year later my younger broth @abdullah gave me an idea of #blogging. I was very much excited about this idea, and started two websites:
- Actingexcellent.com
- Nanahow.com
Due to limited resources, I was unable to continue this blogging alone so I started these two websites with 2 partners. The 2 of them are my clients.
We did write one blog daily and hired a writer too, but due to our other work, we were not able to continue this work. Within 3 months our partnership broke. I lost my one client due to blogging, but due to my good work, a company offered me a freelancing job at @virtualbuy. I earned a handsome amount from this company around the 2 years we worked together. Blogging was left alone because I got multiple orders from multiple clients.
After one year domain name was in renewal options, I did contact my partner but he didn’t want to continue. And my resources were limited due to ongoing expenses and education. So, I did choose actingexcellent.com for renewal and left nanahow.com here.
During the past 2 years, I have done many research publications and due to my high research interest, I started the International Journal of smart agriculture, business, and management with the partnership of @saddamwahla. We did multiple meetings but we were unsuccessful due to responsibilities and not enough resources. As for this system (the journal system) I started an IJSmartpublishing company.
Till here on this journey, I was unsuccessful in business due to limited resources and time management. I forgot to mention to my friends and roommates I started a blogging website @vamlifestyle too with a personal partnership. We all were girls and didn’t keep up the good work, so this business was a disaster too.
After my graduation, I struggled for a separate office, because at that time we had only 1 room in our home. Our city Chiniot is small, there is no office here, you can say I am the only businesswoman here who has her own office. After 2 months of struggle, I did manage a small room near my home as an office. The location was not good people found it difficult to start.
Now the question was where to start. Because I have multiple businesses:
- Blogging sites:
- Publishing Company:
- Academic Consultation
I forgot to mention during my preparations I was preparing #CSS too, so when I started an office in a small room I did start preparation with a proper 6-hour daily time. In the office day time I do freelancing and in the evening at home, I prepare myself for #css.
Life was going in this flow for 2 weeks, in the 3rd week with the same routine I was studying Trek of Pakistan a book that is used to study the history of Pakistan. I found a chapter named “Tharek e Pakistan”. I admire the conference mentioned here All India Muhammadan Educational Conference. I started working on the board and made a foolproof plan for the conference.
Now I have started the conference “All World Muslim Educational Conference”, and dropped the plan of CSS. Through my company #Ijsmart, I successfully achieved my aim of conducting 1st conference in my city in a fast university. At that point when the conference was performed I realized that my money got wasted and I lost in giving a positive message of research to society. I spend my all savings here, conducting seminars, and in-office meetings, and 70% time is used in conferences and I lose almost all of my clients.
No, I was left with empty pockets, but did have some references and contacts due to the conference so for the sake of SDGs I did one more project anemia awareness campaign, Which was a quite good awareness program but I realized that that’s not my path. I was going in the wrong direction. I did take a break from all these things.
Due to this break and not giving time to my freelancing career, I was left with 0 clients. This let me go into the phase of panic attacks. But I did survive there and stand again do the marketing and make a plan again. Finally, after 4 months, I went back into the career of freelancing. Successfully I earned a handsome amount in 4 months. Now this money was saved.
Here at that point, I did make a clear point. After 4 months of day-to-night work, I did take a trip of 20 days and traveled to Pakistan with my own money. I did come back with a plan, a fresh mind plan. Now here I am standing with a good office and a perfect plan which is:
Blogging = Earning = Again Blogging + Conference + Journals + IJSmart + Academic Consultant = Aim + Success
I am successfully running an office with 8 employees, and some freelancers.
In the end, I want to make a clear point that I am not earning a good amount from blogging yet, I just started working. For me, money is not success but working for an aim is success. According to me now I am leading a successful life, and throughout my journey, I prove that “failure is the key to success”.
