It may look like I haven’t made much progress on this whole “blog” thing in the past 24, but don’t be fooled. I spent many hours last night and today researching platforms, themes, host sites, names, and successful female bloggers. I am here to share the top advice I found out there!
The 33.3% Model
From reading An Opinionated Man [his blog exploded in a matter of three months] I learned of his 33.3% model. Essentially he discussed how blogging is so much more than just the content that you write and belongs to you. Rather, he spends 1/3 of his time writing, 1/3 of his time gathering followers, and 1/3 of his time interacting with his followers. He also added that he hadn’t realized how the work load would increase significantly as traffic went up.
Be Consistent
Blogging takes time and significant thought. It isn’t easy coming up with things to say everyday of the week, especially if you don’t know if your voice is being heard. Joanna Goddard [her blog ‘A Cup of Jo’ receives over 1 million unique visitors a month] points out in her post about blogging as a career that consistency helps your blog grow. On the one hand it means consistently putting new content out there, but it also means consistently writing about things that fascinate and inspire you. Which brings me to my last point …
Blog Like You Mean It
I didn’t stumble upon this quite so organically as the last two, but the author, TannerC, offers some intriguing advice. He essentially said that it’s so important to write about those things you are passionate about because it will truly resonate in your writing… but he went on to discuss a time where he was given a topic he was far from interested and how he dealt with the assignment. Without even owning a TV, he was asked to create a blog on that very topic. Rather than bore his audience with impersonal content, he made it into something that felt “less like work and more like fun.” By asking the larger questions, which did in fact relate to television, he created an extraordinarily successful blog that discussed television’s historical impact on culture. Now that’s something I would enjoy reading more than the latest television star gossip.
Now Help Me Out
What do you wish you knew when you started blogging? And an even bigger question, why did you start blogging?
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