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Professional bloggers display specific traits.
Follow their lead to accelerate your blogging success.
True; bloggers tempt themselves into taking shortcuts sometimes. Other bloggers try to wing it. Successful bloggers appear to be lucky. What works for them cannot possibly work for you….or so you think.
Pump your blogging brakes.
Pros go pro for clear reasons.
Blogging is an inner game.
Successful bloggers leave obvious clues for anyone willing to study their characteristics under a microscope.
As you dive into this post consider these 3 words: “Do only this.”
Allow each word to sear itself onto your conscious and unconscious mind.
Doing only as pros do and being only as pros be keeps you on the straight and narrow path to become a professional blogger.
Leapfrogging struggles becomes inevitable if you only do and be as pros do.
Frame successful bloggers as your blogging role models. Follow only their lead. Do what they do. Behave as they behave. Adopt their characteristics to walk their fun, freeing, thriving blogging journey.
Guys and gals who thrive exhibit a few clear traits.
Pay close attention to these qualities. Emulate pros to mimic their success.
1: Passionate
Successful bloggers love blogging and love to blog about their niche. Passion fuels these folks on their journey through ups and downs. Inner passion overwhelms any imagined outer obstacle, from traffic to income droughts.
Pick a blogging niche that tickles your fancy. But first, make sure that you love blogging. Pros make blogging a labor of love. Success follows because top bloggers fall deeply in love with the process of creating content and building connections. Nothing pulls them away from the success-promoting process.
Let blogging be a fun habit. Leave the hard work for suckers who chase money and popularity.
High level pros blog passionately.
Do the same for an unlimited fuel source on your high level, pro blogger journey.
2: Patient
Top bloggers display patience. None panics, bails and quits because each sees the blogging journey through, highs and lows included. Being patient keeps you calm no matter what outcomes come into form. Patient bloggers stick to what works for the long haul.
Being patient distances you from impatient bloggers. Bloggers who blog sporadically fall into cyber obscurity. But since you patiently keep showing up, readers find your blog.
Study pros. Observe their firm patience. None rattle. All see the blogging journey through patiently by knowing that success takes some time to come into form.
Blogging is a marathon not a sprint. Make that your patient mantra to slow down, calm down and enjoy the blogging journey.
3: Persistent
Successful bloggers flash immense persistence because each knows the power in showing up regularly. Being persistent creates the illusion of appearing to be everywhere in your niche over the long haul.
Pros hit the mark again and again over years. Evidence of their persistence forms as being omnipresent across multiple channels in their niche.
During various stretches, Blogging From Paradise readers claimed that I appeared to be everywhere in the blogging tips niche. I am not special. You can and will appear to be everywhere, too. Be persistent. Or design a doppelganger. Both strategies work.
Show up if you feel a bit tired. Publish posts even if you feel a little under the weather. No one feels perfect all of the time. Pros blog inspired and not so inspired.
Watch top pros carefully to see a model in persistence.
Feast on their persistent nature to carve out your professional blogging career based on being persistent.
4: Generous
Pros generously help readers for free for a bit before becoming professionals. That’s right; amateurs with a vision know the benefits of giving away top-notch work to gain credibility, exposure, skills and trust. Make your blog a valued, free resource to be seen.
Giving away the farm makes pros successful. Imagine the time and energy pros spend to publish long-form, targeted blog posts spanning years. Consider the free work pros give away routinely. This is it, guys. This is one secret to going pro.
Successful bloggers generously share their time and talents to be truly helpful. Being truly helpful builds skills, exposure and credibility to go pro.
You read that right guys: helping people thoroughly for free is the way to go pro.
If successful bloggers do this you also need to do it to be successful.
Do as pro bloggers do to mirror their results.
Be generous. Write detailed blog posts frequently. Jam-pack your knowledge, skills and experience into blog posts.
Worry not; creating products and services compels readers who trust your free content to buy your premium courses and eBooks, to hire you and to click your ads.
Being generous creates trust. Trusting readers build blogging businesses……and referral business.
5: Trusting
Successful bloggers trust themselves, trust the blogging process and trust loyal, clear readers who guide them with caring, honest feedback. You gotta trust on the blogging journey or doubt turns your campaign to toast.
Pros trust themselves. Successful bloggers know how committing to the process for a bit precedes certain outcomes. Note the word “certain.” Being definite instills trust. Knowing an outcome inspires successful bloggers to trust themselves organically.
Trust the blogging process like pros do. Top shelf bloggers deeply believe in the simple process of publishing detailed, targeted content and building bonds with readers and bloggers from their niche. None waver. All trust how doing simple things for a long time forms the foundation for a professional blogging career.
Pros trust loyal, caring readers to steer them in the proper direction with honest feedback. Blogging becomes a community endeavor. Community members can edge you toward greater success with their comments. Trust loyal readers on board with your vision.
Conclusion
Develop the habit of paying exquisitely close attention to how professional bloggers behave.
Note their traits.
Study their characteristics.
Embody their qualities to become a thriving professional blogger yourself.
