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Is Blogging for Success Dead?

January 21, 2020 by SeanPatrick Leave a Comment

Finding Success as a blogger is the same as working at and being successful at most anything in life. It is worth it, and the question Is Blogging for Success Dead?

If you search the internet for reasons and ideas about blogging, you will be faced with not only stories of successful bloggers, but ideas about how to blog.

Blogging is a business. You should approach it with your business head on.

Woman writer waiting for inspiration as a successful blogger

Many, many bloggers fail.

Here’s the main reason why they fail: They give up.

They give up because they thought it was all going to be a breeze for them, until they discovered that successful blogging also requires work and intelligence. Discovering that it is also about work, is often too much for many people.

You can do it differently, make your mark as a blogger and approach your undertaking in successful blogging with intelligence and savvy.

Many people like to write about how blogging is dead. Others like to scare monger you into choosing their method and buying the latest subscription into their newsletter or course which will show you how to blog for a living.

As you work your way through all of these various ideas, and the offers you tend you can find that you quickly lose sight of your own goals and start to respect the goals and suggestions of video lovers, platforms and system bloggers too much. They want you to believe every word they write and convert you into a customer for something totally unrelated to your blogging goals.

Don’t Forget that You have a really important Goal

You forget that you need to stay focused on your own goal as a blogger. Firstly, your success depends entirely on your will power and vision to keep working on your blogging goals.

Secondly, your success depends on your will to practice writing, and get better at it. You need to be able to converse with your readers, to draw them in and gain their trust – legitimate trust that is worth valuing.

What is Your main Goal?

If you want to reach success as a blogger, you must first figure out what you want to blog about. Secondly, you need to be sure that you are a hard worker, and will continue working with the same methods throughout the time it takes to become successful as a blogger.

Blogging is hard work, or it is simple and easy. Success is not easy but it can be simple. It doesn’t need to become complicated if you are very focused about what your personal and business blogging goals really are.

Blogging for business and profit becomes hard work when you don’t really want to do it. The writing is essentially your main form of communication. Even if you want to get into video blogging, you’ll discover that you need to be able to formulate what you are saying in videos very clearly. Writing as a blogger is the main tool.

If you hate writing, then maybe blogging is not your thing.

Hard work will take you a long way towards success. Daily work that you enjoy doing, being creative about how to present your ideas, and the fun of studying better ways to create really useful posts that gets readers fired-up, will take you a long way towards your blogging goals.

Hard work can often turn out to be fun and enjoyable – if you don’t end up working hard at blogging, but defintely want to be successful at something other than a nine-to-five job, then you will still be required to work hard.

Hard work doesn’t equate with unpleasantness, though.

Hard work at blogging, and focusing on your goals towards blogging success is an exciting way to spend your days, and definitely kills boredom, and feelings of drifting in life. It gives you purpose.

Having a purpose comes from having strong ideas about your path in life. Blogging will take you a long way, it will offer rewards both financially and as self-satisfaction.

Is Blogging Dead?

No. I have to be emphatic about my answer because I am a convinced writer and blogger who loves the work and the challenge involved in blogging. I love to write, and I love the feedback I receive for the work I do.

If blogging is a dead thing, then so are books.

Blogging can’t die out, or become secondary on the internet. It’s the basis of all out communications when we go online.

Some people enjoy reading blogs, and some people listen to audio, while others watch videos.

I suspect that most people interchange between these three mediums as the mood takes them.

You are Teaching and Coaching Your readers

The advantage of written word is that it is still the best way to learn.

So, anybody who is serious about reading and learning on the subject that you choose to blog about, will want written information to study, print out, to use as reference materials and so on.

Can You Print a Video?

You can’t print out a video, or keep it as notes. The listener must become active and write notes to begin learning. That’s fine, but watching videos is a passive activity – that’s why it’s so popular. Video blogging has reaped enormous rewards for some Vloggers. I think mostly it’s in the area of kids videos and fashion tip videos, things that are naturally vusual and create a desire through visual presentation work very well in Vlogging spheres.

Writing is a Personal Power

Writing is the domain of ideas that require thinking and pondering. Just like you want to know whether it’s a good idea to start a blog, or to continue on the blog you already own, you nee lots of intricate information to consider in order to sum up and make decisions.

Beware of the Chancers and Tempters who lead you by the Nose

The people who tell you that blogging is dead are generally trying to sell you the latest idea. Those are the type of chancers on the internet who chase insecure customers who want to create change in their lives, but have difficulty trusting their own thoughts and instincts. people who need reassurance all of the time are missing the point; they have to learn about their subject, go deeply into it, understand and start discovering things for themselves. This creates a powerful feeling of self confidence in your actions. You must work towards that mind set to be successful at anything in such a busy and filled up world.

Being a Blogger in a Mixed up World

Success as a blogger depends entirely on you. No other person can do it for you, or show you the way except to give you tips and pointers about the technical aspects of blogging, and the writing tips that strengthen your blogging prose.

The reason that you must find your own way is that you must be decisive about your subject.

Blog for Success, and Inform Your Readers

The subject or topic that you blog about needs your full attention, day and night. It’s important that you study enough to feel confident, that you can offer your unique insights into the topic and help other people understand and learn about the topic. Without this, you will always feel lost as you fill pages and pages of blog with the same old words. This can only lead to disappointment for you and not many readers.

My experience of blogging and writing is that there are many people who love to read blog posts. Everyday i get feedback from people who have read something that I’ve written. It’s through this that I realize how important the piece I write was to them. It makes me feel glad that I took my time and put the effort into the work on my blog.

Choose Quality and Deliver the Best – that’s Your Road to Successful Blogging

You can discover for yourself by beginning to Blog about a subject that you really enjoy.

When you choose a topic, make sure that your passion is shared with the rest of the World.

Following your own passions is good advice, but if that passion is so off the wall, and totally out there, then you won’t find many readers who want to follow your work.

Check out these resources for further reading. Setting up a blog so that it’s running and live, is easy these days. designs are simple and that’s how you should keep it. The days of bells and whistles on a blog are over, people aren’t impressed by bright, colourful blogs that are hard to navigate. A simple menu on the right, where it*’s expected, a great title that reflects your Topic or message, and a smooth working theme that is SEO friendly will give you the space needed to get on with the job of blogging each day, or as much as you like.

So, Is blogging for success Dead? The answer is emphatically a , no!

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