Keyboard Monkeys, with Renzie Baluyut

about this blog, and the blog author- Renzie Baluyut.

Hello, and welcome to my latest project, Keyboard Monkeys: Tips, Tricks and Advice for the digital entrepreneur.

The concept for Keyboard Monkeys first came about almost two years ago, when I was working as a copy writer/ researcher and SEO peon for an Australian-based e-commerce company.

I was part of the content development team (that's the rest of them, shown above). Search Engine Optimization was (at the time) a brand new concept for us all, and all these new and exciting concepts in Search Marketing and Social Media were definitely on the rise.

I had just left the local FM radio scene at the time (after seeing some 14 years of action), and I felt like I stumbled upon a completely new passion. Blogging, since then, has been my life.

I was a casual blogger at first- wrote about pretty much whatever I felt like and posted them all online without any system or regularity. Then after putting together a blogging workshop, I realized that blogging can be a legitimate money-making opportunity. Meeting several other local professional bloggers later on only made a bigger impact on me later on.

It was then that I found out that being a professional blogger also meant several things.

• You have to be exceptional at developing content, no matter what your blog is all about. Copy writing and editing, podcasting, even the production of viral videos all make for great content if executed well.
  
• You have to know how to market your blog, which means you need to know at the very least, some search engine optimization, how to use all kinds of social networks, etc.
• A knowledge of digital photography and blogging goes hand-in-hand.
  
• Even better: you add more market value to yourself if you actually know some programming.

• Serious bloggers are also knowledgeable about technology: at the very least, laptops, PCs and mobile devices, as well as removable storage media, peripherals and accessories- whatever helps with their blogging pursuits.
  
• A professional blogger actually knows how to make money online, or at least use his skills to make money off the internet, balancing their blogging efforts with work, or even working from home.

• Even more serious bloggers synergize their blogging and internet marketing savvy with other entrepreneurial endeavors- online or otherwise.
• Being an entrepreneur, in turn, entails a familiarity in running your own business, and so small business management and personal finance comes into play as well.
  

With those realizations came this blog. What I actually did at first was compile most of my entrepreneurial-related content from all my other earlier (read: amateurish) blogs, and put them all here.

While I would need to re-tag and re-categorize most of these earlier posts, new content will definitely be the priority. I have figured out that topics for KeyboardMonkeys.com will play around the following subject matters:

• Building a Better Blog.
  
• Buzz Marketing.
  
• Copy Writing.
  
• Digital Photography.
• Freelancing.
• Guerilla Marketing.
• Guides and How-To's.
• Internet Marketing.
• Making Money Online.
• Online Entrepreneurship.
• Personal Finance.
• Small Business Management.
• Social Media.
• Tech for Entrepreneurs and Small Business.
• The Business of Blogging.
• Working from Home.
• Writing Guides and Tips.

With that, I bid you all welcome to KeyboardMonkeys.com. I hope you find something useful within these pages, and I urge you to share what you can and even drop a comment, or join a discussion or two.

Cheers, everyone.