BenSpark
Hi Hesham. You sought me out and asked me to do an interview with you and through our conversation you joined up with the I’m Not A Famous Blogger Crew. The funny thing is that you have a group called Famous Bloggers. Could you please tell the readers about yourself?
Hesham
I am simple Egyptian guy who moved to the United States recently in a try to discover his chances. It’s kind of weird that I have a bachelor in accountant and I hate dealing with numbers, I have a programmer mind and a designer soul, and this is why I toke the bath of web design at the first chance, and turned to be a full time blogger who spend at least 20 hours a day behind his laptop, you can call me a night creature as well, I make my living creating websites and online communities for my clients depending on great CMS applications, and I have a dream to build a social network for Making Money Online niche, so wish me good luck with this one.
BenSpark
Wow, taking a chance like that is amazing. I want to know more could you please tell us about your blogs?
Hesham
I am running 4 active blogs at the mean time, I didn’t know what to blog about at the beginning of my blogging life, so I decided to have a general blog so I can write about anything on my mind with our limiting myself, I call it My Life Thinking blog which opened all the doors for me to learn about blogging and think a head about my future as a blogger, after two years of blogging I came up with an awesome idea to introduce myself to others and create a solid community for my blogs, and this leads me to establish a new blog where I do interviews with the New Media Bloggers who are interested in Making Money Online, and created a fan club I call it Famous Bloggers Club, the club transformed into exactly what I wanted to be, a new cooperation blog came to life through this idea, it’s the Famous Bloggers blog which it’s basically all about tips of money making from personal experiences of its contributors team that I have succeeded to gather them under it’s umbrella!
BenSpark
That is a lot of work that you are doing. I am impressed. Why did you start blogging?
Hesham
In this world we have to fine more opportunities and sources of living, and I actually have a few offline projects as a source of income, but I don’t run them by myself I am only a partner, and I was having a full time job in Cairo – Egypt before I moved to the States and had to leave my work, I knew since time back that this could happen one day, so I started blogging before this happen to add another source of income to myself. You don’t know what could happen tomorrow, and I never put all my eggs in one basket!
BenSpark
Fascinating. You are now on SocialSpark, can you tell me what is your favorite feature of SocialSpark?
Hesham
What I like about SocialSpark is their ability to perform the concept of social networking and getting benefit from it for all parts of the community, I love the user interface and member profile page, it’s awesome and looks great as they even care of the small details in the design in a way better than most of social networks that I have visited before.
BenSpark
What should be improved on SocialSpark?
Hesham
SocialSpark has great features no doubts, and I am still discovering it, till now it’s perfect to me, and I didn’t find something that bothers me yet or need to be changed or anything from that yet, it’s actually amazing.
BenSpark
Which one plugin would you suggest all bloggers to have?
Hesham
I would suggest the CommentLuv plugin, I am a fan of this plugin and the idea of Andy the creator of it which simple let’s your blog visitors leave a link to their latest posts on your blog while they add a comment, it’s a benefit to both sides.
BenSpark
Comment Luv is a great one. What is the first thing you do when you fire up your browser?
Hesham
Actually I never close or turn off my browser because my laptop is always ON all the time, if I shut it down is because I am moving it from here to there or because I need to restart it, so… let’s say that I never fire up my browser, it’s always on fire, and the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is to hit the F5 and refresh my email page as I don’t like to miss anything from people who are contacting me, and I am always waiting for something new in my in-box, then I take a ride all over my blogs to see what’s going on there, then I move to the next level to check other blogs and what they have for me today!
BenSpark
If you could spend one year blogging about a particular thing what would it be and why? How would you keep it fresh?
Hesham
I would blog about news stories, it’s wide open topic and has lots of audiences from all different ages, and this is what makes it fresh everyday by nature.
BenSpark
What is your best blog post ever?
Hesham
My best post ever is the one I had for my wife’s birthday, let’s say it was an online birthday, we was not together at the same country at that time and failed on buying her flower because a problem on my visa card, so I was getting crazy trying to find a way to bring the smile to her day, so I wrote that post to tell her that I couldn’t bring you any flowers today, and I emailed the family and friends about it, and this worked for me and made my day before hers!
BenSpark
Outside of blogging what are your other interests?
Hesham
If I am not blogging that means one of two things, I am driving my car over the city, or playing some note on my keyboard, I like to write music of my own and sometimes I sing because the feeling of being a way from home.
BenSpark
Favorite Movie? TV Show? Book?
Hesham
I have two favorite movies that I like most; both are so different from each other, Transformers and Gladiator, I love action, technology and historical war movies, so… imagine what could happen when you compile all this together! I have watched these two moves so many times and never felt bored.
BenSpark
The first Transformers movie was decent, #2 was not and I being a longtime Transformers Fan (back from 1984 and such) I was embarrassed by #2. Okay, moving on what are you favorite blogs?
Hesham
IBlogZone.com by Francisco Perez, AKA diTesco. It’s all about making money from the internet, SEO and blogging tips, I love the read of useful posts from diTesco, I can that I have learned lots from his blog.
Social and Blogging Tracker, a social media addict & enthusiastic blogger. Determined to dissect the ideas and apps related to social networking, and present them with illustrations and easy How-To’s, Ching Ya is a very active and social person that I like to read her blog and connect with her.
Blogussion.com is one of my favorite blogs; it’s about blogging that provides outstanding tips for excelling your blog in a variety of topics.
BenSpark
Do you have any favorite Podcasts?
Hesham
Managing more than one blog and working long times makes it too much hard for me to listen to any podcasts at the mean time, I am focusing on other video content and materials to learn from them, I usually go for YouTube when I try to find something that I need to know about.
BenSpark
Being that interested and building communities makes me see that you are accessible so how does someone connect with you online?
Hesham
I am very active on several social networks and online communities; you can find so many ways to contact me just by searching my name on Google, or by following me on Twitter @hishaman and Facebook.
BenSpark
Hesham, thank you so much for taking the time to interview with me.
