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5 Reasons You Should Not be Blogging
Blogging isn’t for everyone, so why force yourself when you’re just not cut out for it?
In fact just for the record, I’ll say that you don’t need to be a blogger to own a blog. You can be a blog owner and get someone else to do all the writing and traffic building, while you focus on other aspects of the business.
As an expansion to Monika’s post “5 common beliefs about blogging”, here are some tell-tale signs that blogging simply isn’t your “cup-o-tea”:
- You absolutely hate writing - There’s no cure for this, and if you really loathe the thought of typing you should not be blogging. True, you can choose other type of media for example create a video blog or focus more on doing podcasts, but you’ll still need to write summaries and perhaps the occasional text post.
- You rather go out and play - If you don’t like looking at the computer for more than an hour, you can’t really blog. Yes again, you can be outdoor more often if you’re doing a video blog but you still need to edit the video, upload it and blog about it. Generally speaking, a blogger has to spend at least 2-3 hours a day looking at the computer screen.
- You don’t like to explore / learn - There is a lot of information on the Internet, to the point where there’s usually too much new things happening that you need to read, understand and eventually blog about. If you don’t adapt to well to learning new information, you end up with nothing to say on your blog.
- You choose the wrong topic - Spinning the same post in different angles can only get you so far. Although you can learn how to come out with creative topic to write about, usually if you find yourself running dry too fast, it has something to do choosing the wrong topic in the first place, a topic that you’re not really passionate about.
- You’re pretending to be another blogger - If have to develop your own blogging identity and style as soon as possible. You cannot constantly try to mimic what other bloggers are doing and trying to beat them at providing the exact same information, especially if your niche market already has several large, established blog.
If you’re guilt of any of the above, then ask yourself “Should I remove myself from the process of continuously creating new content, and focus instead on marketing and getting more traffic?”
New content is great, but there are tons of other things to do if you’re hoping to make a full-time income blogging, such as that you can sell from your blog etc that you may be more suited to.
In such a case, you should outsource the writing part to someone more capable, and you should see better results for your blog; more traffic, more links, and more money generated at the end of the month.
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I think someone need to determine what their ultimate goal in blogging is. If you’re blogging to make money it’s ok if you hate writing because you have a goal (making money) in mind.
Ha ha..obviously!
@ Jagdu: that actually makes sense doesn’t it? Trouble is that most bloggers have no idea on what their goals are. They jump on the bandwagon cause it is cool to blog and then they get stuck not knowing which way to turn.
I was watching a forum thread the other day discussing having someone write your blog posts for you. I don’t really fancy this method, but others were extolling the virtues. Does anyone have any strong feelings about this?
Paula Brett
http://www.PaulaBrettBlog.com
@ Paula: I can see the pros and the cons of this. From my own perspective as a freelance writer I’d say I’m all pro since it does help to pay my bills blogging for clients.
If you consider guest blogging, then why not? It helps exposure to both the blog owner and the actual blogger who does the guest blogging.
As an owner you can still keep control via the different user levels, making sure that your guest blogger doesn’t sneak in some nasty stuff.
In general I think most bloggers who accept guest bloggers or paid bloggers are happy with that. Otherwise they wouldn’t bother, would they?
Yes! I’m agree with your fact gobala. Including me, I really can’t sit down and blog. I have two blog currently. One is about my fav band and another one is about (online marketing-this is because I see many people make money ‘easily’ but it’s not that easy). Before I started to have the blog I was so excited but after I have finished development progress I say “Ermm, I just happy to install wordpress only. Not to write a post!”
Many people start blogging, and they write about 5 articles or short blog posts.Then after that nothing for a year.Then they expect to make money with their blogs
Gobala, can you recomend a good person for this hob please?
Warmest Regards
Mark
Sorry, for this *Job