Blogging is simple, fun, freeing and highly uncomfortable sometimes.
I know; I have blogged for the past decade. Through ups and downs, I identified a single factor that heavily influences – and increases – your blogging success. Bloggers with it, succeed. Bloggers without it, fail. What is the factor?
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If you are a blogger, I think you can easily turn your blogging to a successful online business and I want to share some tips to get you to it.
Let me quickly point out that blogging isn’t a bed of roses. Like any other business, success in blogging requires skill development, time and other resources. Don’t let anyone fool you into thinking that blogging is a click-to-the-bank business.
The good news however is that the income opportunities in blogging are unlimited. The reason is that blogging allows you to build a marketplace. With a business mindset, this is already an opening to earn income consistently.
Bloggers are awesome people. Most of us don’t only write. We’ve found out one of the ways to make money and walk in financial freedom is to create a product.
There are tons of ideas to create your own product. You just have to think and take the bold step to be an author.
I want to help bloggers get exposure. So I will be regularly inviting bloggers who have come up with something to share with us details about their products, giving us discounts and allowing us experience what they have come up with.
Enstine wrote and published a smashing guest post on my blog recently. Read it here:
The Fail-Proof Method to Connect with Top Bloggers (and What Not to Do!)
Any time I read a highly successful blogger like Enstine, a light bulb clicks and I need to share an idea to give new or struggling bloggers clarity. I pondered the thousands upon thousands of hours pros like Enstine and I put into becoming established bloggers.
Visualizing our practice, our creating and our connecting, I quickly observed how we grab influential blogger’s attention spans regularly. How?
Infographics have grown in popularity over the years.
Unlike long-winded blog posts, infographics are visually stimulating in nature. The best ones have stunning designs that you can’t help but read and ogle from top to bottom.
In fact, this single statistic is why you need to incorporate infographics into your content strategy:
According to Venngage, 40% of marketers agree that infographics improve audience engagement.
They not only make sharing content much easier, but they also help readers process information faster!
However, designing them is no walk in the park.
Sure, there are tools to help you create one that you can feature on your blog post and share on social media.