Many of you know me as monawea but my real name is Mona Weathers. I am a wife of almost 17 years (2008), a mother of a teenager, a preteen and a toddler. I homeschool the two oldest and chase the toddler around and clean up after her. I love being a wife and a mother. Most importantly I am a servant of God and a follower of Jesus Christ.

I am also a horse crazed gal and have been an equestrian for 23 years. Our family owns two horses that are a part of our backyard view. We also have a number of other critters-dogs, cats, chickens and a goat. I am what you might call a city-raised girl but a country-bumpkin at heart. As a child I dreamed about living in the country and I am very blessed to be living my dream.

I started my online work way back in the 1900’s. Well, the very late 1900’s- somewhere around 1996. My first online venture was building a website to sell my craft patterns. At that time it was important to be moderately html savvy. Though I did learn a lot about building simple websites I didn’t earn any money. So I took a break from my online income earning venture. I tried my hand at a number of other work at home income opportunities. I was a Mary Kay consultant, a Nest videos distributor and sold sewing and crocheted products at craft fairs and on Ebay. I also had many other business ides that came and went.

About three years ago I decided to try the online income earning thing again. I started out by building a website to help and encourage work at home moms and those seeking work at home opportunities. Moms Opportunity Network. I also created a work at home community forum that had a decent amount of traffic at it’s peak. Though I loved offering useful information to moms looking to work from home, the site wasn’t making any money and I was not able to work as much as I did for no pay.

Then I discovered blogs and how easy it was to build them. I also discovered that income could be earned through blogging. I did a lot of paid blogging/sponsored reviews within my first year of blogging and made a decent amount of money doing so. The more I immersed myself into the blogging world the more I discovered that there was more to blogging than I had originally thought. Though I made as much as $3,000 dollars within 3 months, my "paid blogging focused" blogs lacked pride of ownership. I did not feel I was contributing to the blogopshere as best I could. My goal at that time was just to make money. Though I did my best to offer useful information I had no sense of pride in the content of my blog. My blogs seem to own me instead of the other way around.

After months of researching and reading quality blogs I decided to start again. I created four blogs that had to do with my life and things I was interested in. My personal finance blog deals with my family’s journey toward financial freedom, my horse blog and community allows me to share my passion for horses with other horse people, my web tech blog offers me an outlet for the techie side of me, and my personal blog takes care of all of my mommy issues. Not all of my blogs earn a lot of money but they did earn me a place of respect within the blogosphere .

I have learned much in the past three years. There have been a lot of trials, errors, and learning what works and what doesn't. I have learned a great deal of information on low budget/zero budget online marketing, social networking, building and customizing blogs, niche blogging, monetizing, and much more.

So, why did I start HerProBlog.COM? I find great satisfaction in helping other people. There are millions of blogs online today and most are getting lost in the masses, and unfortunately many great women authored blogs are not getting the attention and recognition they deserve. The goal of HerProBlog.COM is to teach, inspire, and encourage women bloggers. We will be accessing knowledge from top probloggers through interviews and training sessions. Our desire is to help our readers, male and female, learn how to become professional bloggers.By professional blogger we mean, creating and maintaining professional quality blogs that either earn a full-time income through the blog and/or because of it.

There is much more to be said about the goals of HerProBlog.COM and you can read more about this site here.

You can follow me on Twitter - monawea. Follow HerProBlog.COM on Twitter while you’re at it.

Mona Weathers (monawea)
Founder of HerProBlog.COM

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My name is Gaida Rodgers and many of you may know me as GaidaR or egold. I am also a mother and sole parent rearing a teenager which is very rewarding but also challenging.

It’s amazing reading through Mona’s bio as our life path has been similar in so many ways.
I also had those early horse crazed years and was raised in the country until I moved to the seaside at the age of 8 which created challenges but also opened up so many new opportunities for myself and our family.

I’ve also sold my hand crafted items…painted glass & greeting cards at craft shops, craft fairs and markets…. And been involved in Amway & Mary Kay.

One of my passions is fundraising which I have been involved with over the years and know how hard it is to raise money. One of my goals is to enable fundraisers to use the power of the internet to help them raise their much needed funds.

Over the years blogging has allowed me to share my knowledge with my readers as author of several blogs, websites and ebooks. I ‘ve also been involved with paid blogging…( I’m sure Mona introduced me to that side of blogging).

My blogs include:
Scrapbooking Magic - Allows my creative side to evolve
Online Mastery Gold - Internet Marketing Tips & Resources
Beauty Insider Secrets - Sharing beauty tips learned from my Mary Kay consultancy.
Self Growth Discovery – Words for Self Growth and Encouragement
LifeStyle Discoveries – A mixture of everyday living including recipes, savings & work from home opportunities & local news.

I've learnt Webdesign, the secrets to multiple streams of income including Affiliate Marketing, Private Label, Resale & Master Resale Rights, viral marketing & ebooks. I studied copywriting and recently completed Financial Services Cert III….And discovered many hidden talents I never knew I had which has allowed my creativity to unfold.

Little did I realise what would reveal itself along my journey into Internet Marketing. And yes... it certainly has been a 'Journey of Discovery'. I've met wonderful creative and helpful people along the way and many new friends.

One of those friends is Mona who I met online a few years ago in a local forum. Keeping in touch I was thrilled when Mona asked me to join her in this exciting new venture and believe we compliment each other with our shared knowledge and experiences.

The internet opens up so many opportunities, for each and every one of us, to work from home and I want to share the knowledge I've gained with you to help you along your own ‘Journey or Discovery’.

Gaida Rodgers (GaidaR/Egold)
Contributing Editor

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