“Your life will be better if you take action on the things you avoid.”

These were the words I kicked usa bu off the 7th annual ProBlogger Training with – by quoting my mum who when I was a kid realised that I have a tendency to procrastinate and watch life pass me by.

I shared them because sometimes as bloggers it’s easy to procrastinate – and to avoid doing those important things that we know will bring life to our blogging.

The two days of the event this year were all about inspiring bloggers to be proactive and giving them the information and support they needed to take action.

This year around 500 bloggers attended PBEVENT

At RACV Royal Pines on Australia’s Gold Coast. Our numbers were a little smaller than last year which let us try some things we hadn’t been able to do in previously packed out venues – things like sit our attendees at round tables rather than theatre style.

That change might not sound like a big updated 2024 mobile phone number data one but we think it had a big impact as attendees told us many times that they felt the event was warmer, more inclusive, more welcoming and easier to meet people at. I think that they were right.

This year also saw an amazing number of Working with the semantic core and site structure new attendees to our event – over half those who were there were first timers!

Actionable Content

Another piece of common feedback this year from returnee attendees was that the content was more actionable than ever before.

While we’ve always tried to create these types of sessions this year we changed things up quite a bit with how we streamed our sessions.

In one room we had a ‘Fundamentals‘ track for those more at the start of their journey – with sessions on ‘creating content’, ‘finding readers’, ‘building community’, monetization and much more.