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.
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Nice to learn more about our “famous blogger” Hesham! Good interview. I think it's funny that there's a Famous Bloggers and an I'm Not a Famous Blogger site!
Awesome interview. I did not know about your “music” side Hesham. That's good to know. Also, I really thank you for telling everyone about my blog. That's really appreciated. As for your MMO Social Network dream, I think I might have a good proposition for you, will send it via email. Just be patient until all this X'mas season is over, hehe.
Anyway, and as Holly mentioned, it is indeed funny that there is an opposite side to your famous bloggers website. Thumbs up Ben. Good choice for an interview, Hesham rocks
Great interview Hesham, what a brilliant thing to do for your wife's birthday, very touching. If you haven't seen Avatar yet, you should see it, it easily bests Transformers and Gladiator as a better film in my book.
This is the conflict inside of a bloggers
Ah! I have a short song of mine that I have recoded it years back, I will maybe send you a link or email it to you
Take all your time my friend, it's the time to enjoy then we can do some good work indeed!
I really didn't know what to do at that time, you know when you have to be a way from the person you love and you feel there noting in your hands, this is a very hard feeling, but thanks to the internet
I have seen Avatar 2 days back, and man it's a fantastic movie, it's really hard to find a movie that makes me shut up and watch until the end LOL!
An interview of a famous blogger, it is. Hesham an interesting interview. You're a transformer fan huh. What about Star Wars, what do you think of this saga. I'm a Star Wars fan . There is so much to learn from the movie, not just the special effects.”Do, or do not, there is no try.” And you can hit the notes? Well you can record a song for us and upload it here….lol…I'm sure all of us will enjoy it. Happy Holidays!
what a great opportunity to know you better Hesham. I am delighted that from all your money-making posts, the find a personal blog post as your best.
Great interview of a famous blogger
Another great interview never knew you played and sing music but no podcast a blogger who runs famous bloggers club declaring himself and being interviewed thanks for interviewing hesham this guy is great
Jena,
It is always nice finding another Transformers fan like Hesham. Thanks for stopping over and leaving a comment. Are you part of the SocialSpark “I'm Not A Famous Blogger, IZEA Insider” Crew? If not joine up we'd love to have you.
Hi Roy,
Thanks for stopping over and leaving a comment. Are you part of the SocialSpark “I'm Not A Famous Blogger, IZEA Insider” Crew? If not joined up we'd love to have you.
I need to get out and see Avatar, Dragonblogger. I'm going to go hopefully in the next week or so.
Hesham,
Like I told Dragonblogger I'll be seeing Avatar next week or so. It looks amazing.
Hi Holly,
Thanks for stopping over and leaving a comment. Are you part of the SocialSpark “I'm Not A Famous Blogger, IZEA Insider” Crew? If not joined up we'd love to have you.
Actually the reason I called it this was because I moderated a panel of Big money bloggers and while I was standing there I said to myself, I'm not a famous blogger I'm just a guy on stage with famous money making people. Someday I'll be in the seats while someone else moderates.
Hi DiTesco,
I'd love to have you as part of my SocialSpark “I'm Not A Famous Blogger, IZEA Insider” Crew? If you join up I can interview you as well. I checked out your blog, it looks great. I'll be back for more.
Lawmacs,
I agree, Hesham is a great guy. Thanks for stopping over and leaving a comment. Are you part of the SocialSpark “I'm Not A Famous Blogger, IZEA Insider” Crew? If not joined up we'd love to have you.
No, I'm a pariah! LOL (long story). I don't even know what this “IZEA Insider Crew” is. Thanks for the welcome, though.
Well, everyone is welcome in our crew. Check out http://www.socialspark.com and also http://www.benspark.com/socialspark-saturdays.html
Well, you see.. I did this interview with you so latter when I am famous I am going to show this to people and tell them, I didn't born with a golden spoon, I was not a famous blogger since the beginning
One day the Famous will be infamous, and the infamous will be famous, you know this whole thing is like the earth planet, it runs in a circle, yeah! because if all of us are going to be Famous.. so who's going to be our fans?
I wish you good luck, and nice cooperation between Famous Bloggers and I am not a Famous Blogger!
Thanks for your kind words Roy, it's a pleasure to me to meet all the good people like you
I like the 3D work, Star Wars is fine for me as well, but my wife keep telling me I don't like this kind of movies because everything is not real, I say well. just don't watch it honey LOL! do you mean the New Moon? is that so then.. indeed.. it's a nice movie because they was thinking different when they create this movie, very soon we will have a vampire friends and invite them for dinned
Oh!, I don't think I can write a new song these days, I am getting crazy with blogging stuff, but if there is a chance I would love to do it for sure, at them mean time I am going to find the song I have and will send to you, I am sure that nobody will understand what it says because it's in Arabic not English, but I think the feelings are enough in this hard case
Thanks Jena for your comment and support!
I really don't talk that much about my musical hobbies, butwho knows what else I can do
The idea of our Club won't succeed with out your efforts and all our members Lawmacs! Thanks a lot man for the great support.
Tickles me that this interview appears in a not famous blogger blog. Hesham is famous now. LOL. Seriously, thanks for letting us in to take a peek at Hesham's life as a blogger. Twenty hours a day for blogging? Wow, that's passion, man.
Congrats for the fun interview. Enjoyed it very much.
20 Hours a day is a machine man. That is hard core. I'm not even doing that. Might be why I'm not A Famous Blogger… yet.
Hi Hesham,
Its a nice interview…. Me too like gladiator movie..Happy to see that you play keyboard…The best thing is that celebrating your wife birthday through online… Its was a nice idea…
Unique interviews between “Famous Blogger” versus ” I'm Not a Famous Blogger”.
Hey Ben, long time no see. Nice interview. I've been a member of Social Spark for awhile now but I haven't had too much to do with them. I think that perhaps I should have another look at it.
I personally liked the Transformer movies, that girl was hot lol. I'll watch any Sci-Fi movie or series, include Star Wars, Star Trek, Stargate….you name it and I'll most likely like it.
Hesham, that was a brave move my friend, moving to a new country, and I wish you all the best.
I am so happy that you like it Deepika, you are such a nice and kind person indeed to take time to comment here with your sweet words!
Adreian, the contrast between the two sides will show in the future (I hope we can make it), thanks for your comment buddy!
You hit the point of time, time is the most hard challenge we are facing in here!
Moving to another country was not easy indeed, I am even still having some difficulties to choose between Chinese and Mexican food in here
Well.. you can say that this is for now my friend (the past), and we are creating the future by working 20 hours a day LOL! I just hope that passion will not leave my heart before I am done with some good things, some times I feel tired but I have a great support from a wonderful community! Thanks for being here Jan!
You inspired me to dig up the post that explains that “long story,” BenSpark.
Interesting post. I tried very hard to follow everything. When was the last time you had anything to do with IZEA? I think you'd really like socialspark, they have an affiliate program for books called bookswim.
I've gotten to know a lot more about the personal side of Hesham through your interview, Drew. I had a good laugh on my part though. I thought I read that he was a single guy from Egypt, then read about his post for his wife's birthday! Huh? OK, simple guy. Gotta get my glasses checked.
That is okay Connie. Sometimes my eyes have to do a double take as well.
how does an accountant create websites? i graded from programming and some in design but i do not have work in it
Duong,
An accountant makes websites by talking about what they know. Offering advice is a great way to build a website reputation.
Thank u for such a nice website. Everything u do will be successful.
yours is not a such a good website. I stay in kuwait. I am the coordinator of a school in kuwait. called I.E.A.S.
Sooooooory i hate ur ****ing websit
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