It’s very true that you can make up to a six figure income
from your blog. But don’t get it twisted; it’s not always as easy as it sounds.
Like every other business, you have to pay your dues. What I mean is this, “there
is a growing and nurturing period”. During this period, you have to be
patient and “feed your blog”, by feeding I mean giving valuable FREE
content to your blog readers. This will certainly help you to build trust.
Blogging is time consuming, but if you get it right you can command cash whenever,
wherever, howeverJ. I mean you could be playing PS4 and receiving payment
alerts on your phone. Don’t get all excited too soon lol. Read on!
So, so… I just wanted to prepare your mind again with these 4
great tips that will help you develop the right mindset for your blogging
career. You shouldn’t start blogging without putting these things in check! If
you are blogging already, you could also learn a thing or two from this
tutorial.
So Here Goes!
1.
You Need To Break Out Off The“ Get
Rich Quick Mentality”
It’s understandable that you want to make money. I mean,
everyone wants to make money and even more… Right now, I need you to slow down
and reflect. Most of the guys on the Forbes list probably started from
somewhere and then over time, they grew their businesses to their present
level. When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he wasn’t as rich as he is now,
was he?
Today, every blogger wants to start a blog, throw up some
posts and start making money immediately. Hold on bud… It doesn’t work like that.
I need you to rid your mind off the “Get Rich Quick Mentality”. As a blogger,
when you have that kind of mindset, it will show in your quality of work. You
might be forced to start doing the copy and paste method (duplicate content)
from other sites and honestly, that isn’t way to go. As a blogger, you need to
think about your business for the long term and not short term. Think about it,
one year from now how credible would your blog be. I am not saying you have to
wait one year to start making money off your blog, but blogging is all about
building trust. Can you focus on writing one high quality article everyday for
the next one year?
2.
Prepare to Write At Least 100 Quality
Articles
If you can
write a 100 quality articles without quitting on blogging, then your success is
guaranteed! Most bloggers don’t have the persistence to get to that point. I
hope you read the lines clearly… I meant “Quality
Articles” and not some crappy or copy and paste shit. It’s unlikely that
those that give up before they get to the 100th post would not
experience the “Ultimate Blogging
Success”
The reason
why I am using the 100 article benchmark is this:
If you get to a 100 quality articles; then chances are you
enjoy writing! For me, writing comes naturally and I could do this over and
again even though sometimes I hit a writer’s block J that shit happens sometimes lol. I
always feel fulfilled when my blog post is being read by a stranger who
commends my writing either via the comment box, email or phone call. I feel
blessed!
If you are considering blogging as a career and don’t enjoy
writing, I suggest you think about it over and again. Also, the love of writing
can be developed over time… Still talking about a 100 posts; on the long run,
you find out that you get better by the day. You don’t have to be an English
tutor to write meaningful content for your blog; I mean you don’t need to ACE a
TOEFL or something. Just write in such a way that people would feel your
personality by more reading your blog posts.
3.
Don’t Burn Yourself Out Focusing on
Google Ranking and All That Alexa Stuff…
Until last week, I used to bother my head about ranking on
the search engines, checking my Alexa stats and stuffs like that. When my rank
goes down, I feel real bad! Truthfully, it doesn’t have to be that way. When
you read through a blog that tries to rank certain keywords for the search
engines, it becomes obvious that the writing is unnatural.
Of the truth, if your site happens to rank high then that’s
fabulous but if not, do not fret over it. All the keyword stuffing in between
sentences and things like that doesn’t make your writing feel nice. I advice
that you write as naturally as you can, the search engines tends to pick up
some long term keywords even when you write naturally.
4.
Build a List and Focus on Your
Subscribers
I don’t know if you ever heard of money being in the list. Building
an email list is “What’s Up” in the
blogging business. I call my list members “My
Loyalist”. If you have ever entered your email address on a website to
receive something free, I am quite sure you know what happens next! You receive
updates from the list owner; sometimes FREE content and other times PROMOTIONAL
stuffs.
If you have a list of 10,000 subscribers then it means that
whenever you post on your blog, you can send the link to 10,000 people. Even if
you get a 1% open rate, you still have 1000 people reading your blog posts and
offers. Do you understand?
You need to focus on writing for your subscribers and not for
the search engines. When you write knowing that you got 10,000 people waiting
to hear from you, it makes you want to write better stuffs. Lastly, It’s not
all about building the list; you should also learn to build a good relationship
with them. By relationship, I mean putting their problems first before yours.
What this does is to build trust. When they find out that you sincerely care
about them, they will buy products from you.
Thinking about starting a blog? Or started one already, I am
very sure these tips would help you in building your blog business and making
you money.
I hope this helps.
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