{"id":854,"date":"2015-10-25T10:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-25T05:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogginghouse.com\/?p=854"},"modified":"2015-10-25T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T10:15:30","slug":"interview-with-pradeep-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogginghouse.com\/interview-with-pradeep-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Pradeep Kumar, CEO & Founder of Slashsquare"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hey, readers! I think you are aware of our Blogging Interview Series. This time, we invited a great personality from India, and this is Interview with Pradeep Kumar, CEO & Founder of Slashsquare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Pradeep is an inspiration for the other bloggers. He is the founder and CEO of many websites including Slashsquare<\/a> and Hell Bound Bloggers<\/a>. Pradeep is also and successful blogger and making money. Due to his blogging skills, he has a lot of fans.<\/p>\n Now, I am going to ask him some questions about his blogging career.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Read his interview here:<\/p>\n 1. Thanks Pradeep for taking this interview. First of all, please tell us about your start. Means, how you started your network of sites?<\/strong><\/p>\n Hi, thanks a lot for this interview, it\u2019s a great opportunity for me to share my views and introduce myself. I started my first blog during my school days and it was just another website sign up for me, like Orkut or Yahoo! Mail, I didn\u2019t realise the power of Blogging, until I started to write some posts and get genuine responses to it. I started to realise Blogging is a wonderful tool to spread information.<\/p>\n This lead to Slashsquare<\/a>, which is an Indian Blog Network and Web Consulting Media, I\u2019m running this for the past few years. I created a hub of blogs under which I share quality information and create communities.<\/p>\n 2. When you started blogging, did you think that you will make money by doing this?<\/strong><\/p>\n I absolutely had no clue, I think that was a great thing for me at that time, else I would have entirely focussed on making money alone. I knew about Google AdSense, but I didn\u2019t really bother about it much and didn\u2019t know all the blogs could make money out of it. Making money is a part of your blogging journey and not your destination.<\/p>\n 3. Well, blogging is a hard thing for starting (for most users). Did your family try to stop you?<\/strong><\/p>\n They didn\u2019t stop me or anything, but they were anxious to know whether \u201cBlogging\u201d as a profession is a reliable one or not.. whether it is consistent or not. But yes, my passion was greater than their stopping force.<\/p>\n 4. What was the reaction of your family when they saw that you are progressing in blogging?<\/strong><\/p>\n They are happy that I\u2019m doing good in Blogging. My personal life and my professional life are way too complicated.<\/p>\n 5. Will you leave Blogging in any part of your life? I don\u2019t think so \ud83d\ude1b<\/strong><\/p>\n I was an engineering student and my academic life was very poor. I had like 12+ backlogs and it was really a big headache for my blogging passion. I decided to take a break from blogging to focus on clearing those backlogs, but unfortunately the break was very short than I expected. I started to blog like before, I decided to focus on my passion rather than something I\u2019m not really interested in.<\/p>\n 6. Why are you not using AdSense on HellBound Bloggers (HBB)? Is there any other method you are using to make money?<\/strong><\/p>\n HellBound Bloggers (HBB)<\/a> and other blogs under our Slashsquare network are not using Google AdSense for the moment. I somehow feel ads are kinda distracting the readers and moreover I started focusing on Affiliate Marketing and other Sponsored Ads.<\/p>\n 7. Did Blogging <\/strong>affected your Education?<\/strong><\/p>\n I think the question should be \u201cDid Education affected your Blogging?\u201d. Yea, kind of. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n 8. \u201cPosting articles frequently\u201d What do you say about this?<\/strong><\/p>\n A blog\u2019s posting frequency varies from niche to niche. If you are running a \u2018breaking news\u2019 tech blog, then your posting frequency should be very high. If you are running a blogging tips related blog, then your posting frequency need not be very high, but at least 5-6 times a week will be sufficient. It doesn\u2019t matter that much as long as you are posting well researched quality articles.<\/p>\n 9. Have you ever got any loss of money in blogging?<\/strong><\/p>\n Nope, I invested some money on Blogging, but even if they fail, they helped me to earn more next. So I didn\u2019t really lose anything yet. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n 10. Which is your favourite country after India?<\/strong><\/p>\n :O I haven\u2019t actually visited anywhere apart from India, but I wanted to visit Egypt once. That\u2019s it for now.<\/p>\n 11. Tell us the name of three persons who helped you in blogging?<\/strong><\/p>\n Initially when I started Blogging, I followed many people, I analysed what they do, how they reply back to the comments and so on.. then I got some readers for my blog, again I started to follow them, how they read my blog posts, what they expect next and so on.. these are the people who helped me a lot in blogging and list goes on..<\/p>\n 12. What you will choose, blogging or $1,000,000. Means, will you leave blogging if you will get a lot of money?<\/strong><\/p>\n To be honest, you can earn 100 x $1,000,000 easily from Blogging if you work hard & smart.<\/p>\n 13. I have seen that you have an interest in photography, how you got interested in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n There isn\u2019t any specific reasons mate, when I started to take photographs and analysed them, I can see something elegant and beautiful in that, I just wanted to learn more about Photography so that I can take better pictures for my blog posts and then I started Photovity. I\u2019m still a good learner.. lets see how it goes. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n 14. Now, I am going to ask a personal question. Will you marry a female blogger If her blog\u2019s ranking is not good?<\/strong><\/p>\n If you have asked me this question before few years, I would have given a good answer for this. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n If I marry a female blogger, my blog & her blog becomes \u2018Ours\u2019. So it doesn\u2019t really, matter we\u2019ll blog together and improve each other. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n 15. How Blogging House readers can reach you?<\/strong><\/p>\n They can reach me on:<\/p>\n Facebook: https:\/\/facebook.com\/spradeepkr<\/a><\/p>\n Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/spradeepkr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey, readers! I think you are aware of our Blogging Interview Series. This time, we invited a great personality from India, and this is Interview with Pradeep Kumar, CEO & Founder of Slashsquare. Pradeep is an inspiration for the other bloggers. 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