David Turnbull has been blogging for over ten years
now. He started his first website when
he was twelve, and he started blogging the year after. David started blogging as a result of his
interest in building websites. Blogging
allowed him to speak his voice in the digital space since he was very quiet in
school. Now, at twenty-three years old,
David is a professional blogger living in Sydney, Australia and managing a
blog, a YouTube channel, and projects that he wants to focus on for his career.
David is the creator of Nintendo 3DS Blog, a blog
dedicated to giving readers the latest news about the Nintendo 3DS handheld
video game system in a way that is easy to read. The site generally gets 100,000 visitors a
month. He gets paid for his blog through
Google Adsense ads and Amazon links.
Since there was no blog about the Nintendo 3DS at the time of the system’s
release, David decided to take matters into his own hands and start one in 2011. Nintendo 3DS Blog is unique because it was
the first blog to focus on the Nintendo 3DS, and he updated the site very
quickly and frequently when the Nintendo 3DS was still new.
Another unique element about Nintendo 3DS Blog is its
YouTube channel called Nintendo3DS.
David recaps all of the latest Nintendo 3DS news at the time on this YouTube
channel. David wanted to do something
new for his blogging experience, and since YouTube was becoming so big, this
was a huge opportunity for himself and his blog. This YouTube channel has
brought several people who may not have found the blog on Google to Nintendo
3DS Blog. David also has been able to
connect with others on the blog and has been showing his face and speaking his
voice to his viewers.
David believes the blog’s strength is the fact that it is
solely focused on the Nintendo 3DS and was one of the fastest sources for
Nintendo 3DS information. He feels that the
blog is relatable and appealing because it is just him doing the blog and not a
big corporation.
David believes that his blog’s weakness is him having all
of the responsibilities of running the blog. This resulted in David wanting a break, but this
would result in him not working on the blog or not having the break. He also believes the blog’s success depends on
the Nintendo 3DS’s success because it only focuses on the Nintendo 3DS.
David better understands how he wants to work. He doesn’t like tight deadlines, so now he
will work on projects that allow more time.
He also feels the blog was egocentric because he wanted a big audience,
but now he doesn’t have that stress.
His advice to bloggers is to create a blog that the
blogger wants to read. Everything that he does for the blog is based on this
advice.
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