{"id":34747,"date":"2014-12-25T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T14:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=34747"},"modified":"2014-12-22T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T03:38:31","slug":"seasons-greetings-from-problogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/seasons-greetings-from-problogger\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasons Greetings from ProBlogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Melbourne Australia where it has just ticked past midnight and we are now officially celebrating Christmas day (or at least I am&#8230; while the rest of my family are asleep).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/duaneschoon\/4182924393\/in\/photolist-7nCzG6-dELXX2-7qyRqe-92Kzhk-5G5bCS-dDeoNo-7mwZ7w-b6w9TT-94Jp2A-96VRju-94z3yW-hEydXu-iAarfq-guLzEq-95dzft-aY9zAM-8YupFS-94sMAv-ihCZ9G-dECxo2-pTqg99-pTfHvg-imMAfT-7pQRCe-qboBTH-dAPVzZ-ij6qJE-ikZV6Q-dCCU93-dCVucU-92Kbj3-7DEpU-dD3BJd-7q7smX-4bVNF6-4cFg6d-dDmFnY-6q3jz-iBHRzg-eeteem-ihytvS-5CKdeA-ix7RV2-iEvG5U-7pYPmT-8YGpgp-4furcR-t1jDf-8YpDYm-aDE5eJ\/player\/\" width=\"600\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As I sit here &#8211; having just wrapped my latest gift &#8211; I&#8217;ve been contemplating what a massive year it has been.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been big for our family &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/styleandshenanigans.com\/\">Vanessa&#8217;s blog<\/a> kicked up a gear, our second eldest son started school, his older brother joined every sporting team he could and our youngest&#8230; well he just doesn&#8217;t stop!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been big for our team &#8211; in fact we&#8217;ve had our biggest year ever on many fronts. Our Aussie event grew to 550 attendees, we relaunched <a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/\">ProBlogger.com,<\/a> and saw a heap of new members join up, we hit record traffic levels on my <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\">photography<\/a> blog and a couple of hours ago we sent our last email on our biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-photography-school.com\/12days\/\">12 Photography Deals of Christmas promotion<\/a> in five years.<\/p>\n<p>This year also saw my little team grow again. We now have nine of us working in the core team (many on a part time basis) and another 30 or so people contributing in different ways as regular writers, designers, developers, editors, and more.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling particularly grateful to this team. They&#8217;ve worked hard this year, many of them behind the scenes, to help keep ProBlogger and dPS running. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly I am very thankful to those who keep coming back to my blogs, forums, sites and events as readers, members, customers and friends. Without you this little business that I&#8217;ve managed to carve out of blogging would not be possible.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to 2015 I&#8217;m excited about the many possibilities and the plans we&#8217;ve already put in place for a new new ventures and experiments. But before we get into that&#8230; it&#8217;s time for a little summer break for most of us here at ProBlogger.<\/p>\n<p>Some of us are going to the beach, others of us are taking road trips and a few of us are going to simply recharge at home and watch some cricket. But we will all be back in a week or two when we&#8217;ll ressume blogging here on ProBlogger &#8211; so stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time &#8211; don&#8217;t forget to check out our &#8216;best of&#8217; series from the last week or so with all our best posts of 2014.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/most-popular-posts-on-problogger-2014-monetization\/\">Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Monetization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/most-popular-posts-on-problogger-2104-content\/\">Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Creating Content<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/most-popular-posts-on-problogger-2014-social-media\/\">Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Social Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/most-popular-posts-on-problogger-2014-writing-tips\/\">Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: Writing Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/problogger.com\/most-popular-posts-on-problogger-2014-general-tips\/\">Most Popular Posts on ProBlogger 2014: General Tips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a safe and restful end of the year and we&#8217;ll see you in 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Melbourne Australia where it has just ticked past midnight and we are now officially celebrating Christmas day (or at least I am&#8230; while the rest of my family are asleep). 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