How to blog
Successful bloggers leave you a proven blueprint to follow.
Study the pros to cut your learning curve by years.
It is that simple but your blogging journey becomes uncomfortable at times. Obstacles pop up. Traffic or profit droughts may dampen your spirit.
In moments like these you need to double down on modeling successful bloggers to resist the temptation to engage in failing blogging strategies.
The whole idea of blogging and content marketing is like a kingdom and we know the 3 main components of a complete kingdom:
That’s exactly what blogging is. If any of these lacks or has a deficiency, the whole kingdom is sick.
If content is King, where therefore is the kingdom? What about the ruled? In content marketing, we have laid so much emphasis on the content being the king. There can never be in king without a kingdom and the ruled. Let’s look at these parties differently and see how they relate to blogging.
Content marketing is here to stay.
Creating helpful content and sharing it across a wide range of platforms ain’t going out of style anytime soon. People crave help. People consume help across their online channel of choice.
If you run an online or offline entrepreneurial venture you are in the business of helping people.
One lesson I learned over my nearly decade long entrepreneurial career: gives folks the freemium and they buy the premium. This means that if you help people for free a healthy portion of these folks will buy your products or hire you, growing your business steadily.
The dream of every website and blog owner is to create high-quality content, generate massive traffic, and make sales.
We all know the role traffic plays in helping you get an interactive blog community and in earning with your site.
Needless to say that without traffic your blog is as good as living in an internet desert and in total obscurity. Even though your dream is not to earn money with your blog, you still need people to read whatever you’ve got to tell them, right?
After reading thousands of blogs during my 9 year blogging career I spot patterns.
Successful bloggers master the principle of leveraging.
If you look at Blogging From Paradise – my blog – for a minute you see I give readers plenty of opportunities to join my list and to comment on my blog posts.
Email list traffic is traffic on demand; perhaps the ultimate form of leveraging. Blog commentators add credibility and content to my blog, both leveraging traffic builders. Social media tools fall into this category as well, such as an Instagram growth service which can be easily utilized to drive more organic traffic and increase the number of followers.
You may be dealing with a poop load of blogging resistance.
Because you don’t work a “real job” according to some people.
I know.
When new to blogging, family and friends asked me when I was going to land a real job. A job that paid the bills. A job that afforded me generous medical benefits.
Even today, some folks believe I am sitting on a computer all day long, dawdling around, passing the time doing something silly, or trivial.