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Successful Blogger Qualities
SUCCESSFUL BLOGGER
Essence of a Successful Blogger
Have you ever thought about what it actually takes to become a successful blogger? Well, there are certainly a lot of successes out there and we can all learn from the cream of the crop. So I began thinking about what it actually takes to run a successful blog, and actually be a successful blogger. Here is a list that I came up with. There may be other characteristics, and these aren't necessarily in any precise order.
1. Loves to write - apparently now-a-days this has been changed to "Loves to aggregate"
In order to be a successful blogger, you either love to write and are using the Blog to publish your voice on the internet, or you are really taken with a particular topic and love to scour the Internet and mash together articles, videos and other pieces of information cobbling them into blog posts. Either way, in my viewpoint in order for you to have a successful blog you need to contribute content and at least some of it has to contain your own stamp of personality.
2. Knows their grammar / spelling
Well this maybe shouldn't by its own nature be on here, but it is a peeve of mine. I really don't like reading an otherwise great post to come across elementary spelling errors. it for some reason instantly lowers the stature of the post (I better check my own spelling now). I then have a proclivity right or wrong to disregard the information, easily forgetting the entire thing. I also at the same time would not want to recommend the post to anyone else. (Like poor spelling is a catching disease or something). This is one really simple area to develop in being a successful blogger. just use spell check.
3. Hard Working
Hard Working? Well not so much but if nothing else, a successful blogger is persistent. When I think of Hard Work I think of guys digging ditches by hand, mining coal or some other equally taxing physical work. Writing a blog just doesn't measure up in that way. However, being consistent and writing at least one quality post day in and day out can be grating. Just how does one go about bottling creativity for the object of rolling out paragraphs every day on demand? You do get better at it if you write every day, but it's still not easy, as a matter of fact some days it seems like it would be easier to dig ditches.
4. Entrepreneurial
At some point you will have the idea that you can bring in money from your blog. Being a successful blogger does not demand monetary benefit however, it's the typical chicken -vs- the egg case. While it's not crucial to complete the following exercise, you may want to establish if you got in for the personal fulfillment of writing and sharing, or for the cash. But at some point, regardless of what you got in for. you are going to have the thought that there might be some way to make money at it.
As far as making money from blogging goes you will need to spend some time investigating Sales and Marketing in order to become a successful blogger.
5. Creative
Since Content Management Systems abound and Plug-ins are plentiful. Anybody and I mean anybody can be a successful blogger from the creation and creativity context. Anyone can start a blog, make it look fairly respectable and write or aggregate content. As a matter of fact anybody can start a blog about any interest they want. Sure, the more ingenious you are the better. One thing I heard the other day is good to keep in mind when it comes to creativity and if doesn't only apply to blogging and website creation. "Creativity does not demand a laser like focus since it is not typically a linear process, it requires a much broader scope vision and and conditions that allow bits and pieces of wide ranging information to come together to bring about new ideas. Being a successful blogger means to keep that open view, let the information percolate then capture them in beautifully written blog posts.
6. Life Lover
Well since we talked about the ability to create blogs about anything and everything. I think this category might be best described by saying that while successful bloggers may have a definite love of life in general, making them basic good company, it doesn't necessarily make them successful bloggers. For the most part at some point they diverge from the general happy go lucky path and start to focus specifically on one or a few aspects of life that they are extremely enthusiastic about. I would say that the only thing they love more than life usually. is the subject they have chosen to blog about. My personal view is that in order to really be a successful blogger you need to be passionate about something.
7. Personal Developer
A Blog unexamined is a blog not worth reading? Well maybe not, but self-growth and being a successful blogger means writing, examining, commenting, thinking and blogging some more. Whether or not you are one with universe doesn't really matter unless it applies to your specific blog.
8. Communicator
This is where Bloggers get to show off. Certainly original posts are the successful blogger communicating to an audience. some audience. Definitely at first an unrealized audience, sort of a potential audience if you will. But as soon as one of those virtual audience members posts a comment. that audience has come to life and becomes fact that there is at least one person out there watching. This makes blogging so much more gratifying, especially since the successful blogger can now expound on the details of their passion(s) and connect that to a live person on the other end.
9. Helps Others
"This was one attribute that blew me away. When I started blogging I emailed some fairly high profile blog owners and they actually responded to my email. I wanted an opinion on the design of my blog and I also asked to interview them for my blog. They helped me out and it got me off on a very positive note when it came to blogging. It showed me how charitable and helpful even high profile bloggers can be."
No big surprise here. being a successful blogger is kind of like being a successful parent. A blog is like one's baby. If somebody, anybody asked you about your baby and wanted to know some details about how you take care of your baby, what do you do when your baby cries, or what you feed your baby. most proud parents would be flattered to discuss these issues as well as proud blog owners. Maybe it's an ego thing, but I prefer to think that there is some altruism there.
10. Efficient
Blogging is a love hate type of affair. It's not that a successful blogger hate's blogging, it's just that our lives in general have become so busy that it is a ceaseless fight to borrow time out of the other important parts of our days and lives to have enough time to sit down every day and write blog posts, and answer questions and comments. If you are currently blogging or are considering beginning your own blog, you might want to visit my article "Kick Starting your Blog" (See Link Below) as it has some tips on organizing your day and finding those little bits of time that can be harvested to create blog content.
If you've gotten this far. you are a trooper! Thanks for visiting and good luck in your Blogging adventures, and in your journey to become a successful blogger.
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