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Starting your own blog can be one of the greatest things that you’ll do. We all want to be successful in life, right? Of course, if you start blogging a whole world of opportunity can open up for you. This new media presence is constantly changing and evolving. The blogging revolution has provided more opportunities for people become “well known” purely from writing. Creating content that you’re passionate is exhilarating and rewarding, whether your audience is a handful of people or in the thousands.
Many new people start blogging and majority of these bloggers will resign. Blogging is hard work. Seriously, it takes a lot of hard work to be a successful blogger. Blogging is like driving. You’ll have times where your results will accelerate and other occasions where feel that you’re stuck behind a tractor for 5 miles.
When bloggers don’t achieve any results or any success procrastination plays its part. It’s easy to give up when times get harder. When you start blogging remember the reasons you wanted to blog in the first place. There are a lot of reasons why people blog.
Why I started blogging:
You’ll notice from that list making money isn’t there. Many bloggers procrastinate and give up, because they’re chasing the pot of gold on this blogging rainbow that they haven’t found yet. Many new bloggers have perished, because they start blogging for the wrong reasons.
Making money online is neither easy or a good goal. We all need money to live and to survive. However, relationships with people provide opportunities that can be converted into financial rewards.
Blogging for new skills is an excellent way of enhancing personal and professional development. Regardless what industry you’re in it’s important to harness those new skills and keep learning. Once we stop learning we stop growing as individuals. When you start blogging you’re on a journey to develop a more educated you.
Focus on learning. We all want those fat pay cheques, don’t we? It’s important to keep improving and reaching those goals. If you’re in the field of web design or multimedia you must continue to develop otherwise you’re history.
Life is full of surprises. You’ll never know what’ll happen. You could have a good job and all of a sudden you’ve been made redundant, whatever reason why it’s not good enough. We can’t have one source of income and especially when people are being made redundant in the thousands. Whether you’re employed or self-employed or even unemployed start blogging today! You can create many opportunities. Networking is powerful. We all need to have people in our lives that can help.
I am sure you’ve heard the quote. “No man is an island”.
Success means different things to different people. To me, success is making a difference, being respected and appreciated. Money isn’t as important to me, because I know it’ll come when the time is right. What is important that I network and help others to succeed.
The exchange rate of the Dollar, the Pound or Yen changes every day, but our knowledge and experience can be worth its weight in gold.
If you want to be successful you must start taking action and start blogging. You’ll enjoy the experience.
I invite you to share your thoughts. How do you motivate yourself to write an excellent article, when you feel that you don’t want to?
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This is a question that I get asked frequently. RSS is a simple method being kept up-to-date with your favourite blogs. Before, Web 2.0 and RSS feeds website users needed to visit their favourite site and see if there was any new content.
In this video, I’ll show you how to subscribe to Better Start Blogging and use RSS feeds in Internet Explorer; Firefox and Safari.
Why educate your readers on how to use RSS?RSS feeds are a productive method of locating new content. If you’re a blogger and need to keep up to date with the latest news. This is a great option. If you’ve got 15 to 20 favourite blogs, it takes a long with to view every single site.
RSS feeds are valuable and unfortunately many people don’t know how to use them. To increase the number of RSS subscribers to your site focus on educating your readers on the importance of RSS.
We only have so many hours in a day. We live in a world where technology is constantly changing. The way we obtain our news and information has changed dramatically over the past 10 years. For a blogger, it‘s important to stay head. However, many of us are prone to information overload, where we’re constantly bombarded with information from businesses and organisations. The social media era provides us with an alternative for obtaining information. The disadvantages of social media technology are that it’s very time consuming and can dissolve many of our waking hours away.
In this article, I will highlight a variety of causes of unproductive behavioural patterns, plus show you methods to enhance productivity.
For many businesses and employers, the internet is seen as unproductive. I’m sure you’ve heard of cases where employees are spending their working hours on social media sites such as: Twitter and Facebook. For bloggers, social media is seen to be an important method of generating traffic; it’s advisable to limit your time on these sites. Social media can serve us or it can control us.
Do you need to check your Twitter account every five minutes? Honestly, how many tweets to you get in one day? I’ve been a victim of social media addiction myself. You’re best off checking social media sites in the morning and evening.
Skype is a fantastic communication room that is used by many bloggers and entrepreneurs. An online chat room can be very addictive and can lead us to very unproductive work patterns. I’m a member of a Skype blogging chat room and it is an excellent way to create new ideas. A majority of these chat sessions are ongoing. If you’re a member of a chat room you could have a one hour session per week devoted to a certain topic. This would be more productive than random chat sessions throughout the day.
Checking e-mails can be another example of being unproductive. If you’ve read: “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss, you’ll have noticed that Tim only checks his e-mails twice a day. Constantly checking your e-mails isn’t healthy and provides false hopes. Seriously, what are you expecting in your e-mail inbox every five minutes of everyday? No news usually means good news.
Being self-employed or an employee requires that you plan ahead to meet your goals. If you have a deadline that must be reached by the end of the day, you’ll not have time to use social media sites and check your e-mails constantly. Planning ahead provides a more concise strategy and enhances productivity.
A successful employee, entrepreneur, or blogger will constantly carry a notebook. Your notebook is an extension of your thoughts. Use your notebook wisely and write down anything that inspiring or resourceful.
RSS feeds are a productive method of reviewing new content on your favourite blogs. I’m currently signed up to 10 RSS feeds and I use the RSS frequently. RSS feeds keep me informed when my favourite blog have been updated with new content.
It’s important that the mind as an opportunity to relax. Take regular breaks after working two or three hours. If you feel stressed take a break.
A successful blogger will always review their goals and see if they’re getting closer to where they want need to be. I suggest reviewing goals on a weekly basis, so that you can make fine adjustments if necessary.
For a number of blog posts I use speech recognition software. The software allows me to get my ideas in writing more rapidly than typing. Once I’ve created my articles I’ll proof read the article and make the necessary changes.
A successful career requires rest periods and time away from their chosen profession. A blogger needs different surroundings, inspiration from others and a wide selection of interests to create a successful blog.
Do you have any unproductive habits that cost you more time than you’re willing to admit? We want to hear them. Do you review your blog traffic seventeen times a day? Share your unproductive habits with us. We’ve all got some habits.
You’ve encountered this new passion for blogging. This new platform of communication provides opportunity and excitement. These emotions fulfill us momentarily. However, a few short weeks later, we discover that the honeymoon phase of blogging has past.
To keep your blogging career a success, you must develop new information consistently, so that you don’t fall off the blogging treadmill. As your community and readers grow in strength and numbers, you’ll need to develop new avenues of information to sustain their attention.
Blogging burnout is a common condition that can be cured. From previous experience, the main cause of blogging burnout is demanding more from yourself than others expect. Blogging burnout is often caused by exhaustion and can corrupt your creativity. To be free from creative burnout you must have a balanced lifestyle.
Subconsciously your mind is developing ideas constantly. Capture these ideas in a notebook. This is a simple way to develop good ideas. Consider brainstorming new ideas at least 15 minutes a day. Time yourself to develop new ideas and you’ll be surprised with the gems of information that can be attained if you just look for them.
Successful people have a balanced lifestyle. If you’re working constantly 24/7 on your blog you’ll quickly run out of ideas and steam. This is not healthy for your self-esteem and mental focus.
Have you heard the saying: “absence makes the heart grow fonder?” You don’t need to post every single day. I strongly recommend writing three or four articles per week. If you publish an article on Monday, publish another article on Wednesday or so on. If you publish seven days a week you’ll find your audience may become exhausted.
“All work and no play makes James a dull boy,”
The people around you are valuable. You must have quality time in your life. Relationships are crucial. Just as the song states: “loneliness is the killer”, (Killer, by Seal, 1990).We all need human interaction. Make sure you spend time with those you love and notice there’s more to life than technology and blogging.
A day off from blogging
4: Get off the computer
Do something completely different. The Internet has lots of useful resources. However, having your head stuck in front of a laptop screen for prolonged periods of time causes tension. The human body functions at its peak when we’re psychically active. Excessive computer usage leads to stress, tension headaches and can be very demanding on our mental focus.
There is an exciting world called “modern-day life”, that contributes to a variety of creative thoughts and inspiring patterns that can help you create great articles for your blog.
Do something different. Go outside. Take a walk. Go to the cinema. Go for a drive. Visit a natural place such as a: forest, mountainous region or beach and experience nature’s greatest of secrets. I can guarantee spending time away from a computer screen will improve your blog.
Copyblogger’s main rule is to develop great content. Brian Clark focuses on developing awesome information without the compromise of quantitative content. We can easily publish several posts per week; however, the quality can suffer. I focus on creating quality information rather than publishing a half written article. Blogging is about valuable and quality content.
The addiction of social media can easily eat up your spare time. Although, social media is a vital component of blogging, you must limit your time on networks such as Twitter, Skype and Facebook. The smartest approach is to spend 15 minutes per day or less on social media.
You can read numerous blogs and generate a string of ideas. Commenting on blogs is a time-consuming process. Blog commenting is not an effective link building campaign. You don’t really need to comment on 50 of 60 blogs a day to increase your blog traffic. If you want to increase your blog traffic, focus on creating well-written guest blog posts.
Many bloggers have full-time jobs. Therefore, it’s important to set realistic targets for your blogging success. How many hours can you devote per week to your blog? Realistically, 10 to 20 hours a week is reasonable for a full time employee.
Create a timetable of all your commitments. Plan accordingly where you can write a decent article. To create a high-quality article you’ll need roughly 3 hours. Planning ahead provides clarity and enhances productivity.
If your blog has a good readership, you should consider accepting guest blog posts. A strong blogging community needs new ideas and concepts. Guest blogging is a great method of developing new content. In addition, guest posts give the blog host an opportunity to relax a little and recharge their batteries.
Blogging can be very exhausting mentally. The body requires exercise too. Overtime, if you’re participating in any sit down job, your body is prone to weight gain. Sweating is the greatest method to relieve stress. Exercise is a remedy for blogging burnout. Take your mind away from the computer and you’ll discover a fresher approach to blogging.
Spend one day a week away from: twitter, Facebook and any other social media sites. If possible, also switch off your computer for one-day per week. We all need a day off from blogging. We don’t realise how much we take technology and electricity for granted. You wait until you have your electricity supply fails.
Everybody needs alterative interests than blogging. If blogging is your heart and soul, you must have different hobbies. Otherwise, you’ll be just obsessed with blogging and life will become very one-dimensional. A successful blogger has a variety of interests and hobbies. If you quit as a blogger and that’s your only interest, generally you’ll feel like a failure. Have a variety of hobbies and blogging will become more proactive in more productive for you.
A successful peorson understands that there’s only so much that can be achieved in a day. Focus your efforts wisely. Focus on the task at hand. Don’t let social media control you. Have a written goal and work hard to attain that goal. You’ll do much better when you plan for success.
As a blogger you’ll discover blogging burnout. Focus your attention on developing a successful mindset and the rest will follow. Do you have any ways that improves your creativity? Please comment and retweet. Thanks