Blogging has become an ‘industry’ of sorts. It’s become a business and a way to making money for some. See yesterday’s blog post where I talked about making money from blogging…
Ok, you’ve got all the bells and whistles for your blog… It’s been built properly, you have all the widgets and plugins happening with pop up’s and social media sharing buttons, but it’s just not happening for you? You’ve signed up and bought online classes and you just can’t seem to get your blog to fly??
First let’s look at the blog statistics. I found some for you and put it all together in this little infographic I created. Feel free to PIN IT, right click and save and share this around!
So now you know the numbers, how come you can’t get your blog to take off? It’s puzzling sometimes isn’t it? I know that feeling. Actually I feel like that often. Roll your eyes if you want! But truly, I am not nearly at the top of my game. Not even close. Only because the goals I have for it haven’t been met yet. It’s all about your comfort level and how you feel about the direction your blog is going in… Yes, I may have some good numbers visiting my blog daily, but it hasn’t hit some pivotal points yet. I have these written down as my goals. You’ve got to have BLOG GOALS! If you don’t, you’d better start writing some down pronto (that’s if you want it to grow!). If you’re blogging for fun, then this post isn’t for you. This blog post is for those who really want to take their blog up a notch and work out how to get it to make you some $$ (not for the bloggers who enjoy writing for fun). 🙂
Let’s start with the Blogging Myths:
- Anyone can be a blogger thesedays
- You don’t need any background skills
- You can add in affiliate links and make money
- You don’t have to be able to write
- You don’t have to write every day
See that above list? Think about it. Do you have any of those attitudes towards blogging?
Now let me tell what I think…
It all comes down to routine and discipline.
You have to find a routine stick with it. 100%. No wavering from it and no bad attitude. No matter what, you HAVE to blog consistently.
And this is the part you’re not going to like reading… You have to blog every day. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
Suck it up, recognise that this is a fact and start working on HOW you’ll achieve that.
Think about some of the big bloggers you follow… they blog every day don’t they? And when I say every day, I mean 95% of the time (yeah, I get it, sometimes a Saturday or Sunday might not be your thing). For example – I blog every single day. Sometimes I take a day break here and there. But as a general rule I do it every day. I also stick to the same time every day so my audience gets used to the routine and know to expect something.
You need to persevere and you need to start accepting that if you don’t blog every day your presence cannot be felt among your competition. You need to find your skills and start writing about them…
How are you going to do this every single day?
Plan ahead, write in advance, get someone to guest post… but it has to be done daily.
You need to show up, get in to it, promote it, own it and flog it. Every day you need to think about pimping out your blog to Twitter and Facebook. You need to reply to comments, get active and start conversations.
This is how your blog will learn to fly on it’s own.
Put the work in and discipline yourself. Sell yourself and your blog over and over again and people will start believing in it.
This is how you’ll start to make money from blogging. This is how you will draw your clients in (see yesterday’s post!).
So today, make a start… start writing tomorrow’s post and the day after…
How often do you blog at the moment? Can you take it to the next level?
Happy blogging friends! X