Las Vegas Nevada
I enjoyed apricot jam from Aldi today.
Why?
Apricots and sugar taste brilliant together.
I saw no other ingredients on the label. Aldi is all about wholesome foods. I love the taste. I feel satiated after scarfing down Aldi offerings. Real food is the most wholesome too, of course. Consuming a natty peanut butter, apricot jam, whole wheat bread sandwich from the store feels like a cup of coffee to me. Energizing. Invigorating. Real food is best for you because it checks all the marks.
Adding artificial ingredients spoils:
- the taste
- the nutrition
- the overall experience
Kelli and I fell in love with Aldi and Lidl during our 6 months in England.
Why not?
Forget about the inexpensive prices at both stores for a moment.
Food from Aldi and Lidl is pure. Real ingredients. Nothing artificial. Real, whole food with natural ingredients seems healthiest. Pure food tastes amazing.
Adding artificial ingredients spoils food. Not literally. But you know what I mean.
Toss in corn syrup, pectin and the 5-10 different artificial preservatives commonly seen in mass-made jams – seen often in the States – and you have a watered down, not at all nutritious, poor-tasting food stuff.
Artificial food is cheap to produce and purchase but tastes like crap and offers poor nutritional value.
What About AI Blogging?
Using AI to create content is like cramming artificial food down reader’s throats.
Sure it is cheap to make but it offers no nutritional value. Plus it tastes terrible.
Artificial content is not the real McCoy. Readers will look past your drivel sooner than later.
Imagine each generic script to be an artificial ingredient. Adding artificial ingredients by using generic scripts consistently severely lowers the value and true helpfulness of your content.
Everyone knows what I mean. AI-generated content sounds like millions of AI-generated posts. No difference. No value. No helpfulness. Why would anyone trust a re-hashed piece of junk? Why would readers trust a blogger who publishes re-hashed pieces of junk filled with artificial gunk?
Do you want organic blog traffic and blogging income?
Create everything from scratch. Use real ingredients. Never add artificial ingredients even if you feel tempted to add filler. Artificial intelligence is filler. Using something fake to supplement something real makes no sense. Real content stands on its own. Genuine content hits the mark. Readers want real, genuine content, not artificial intelligence spawned filler.
Give readers your thoughts.
Be Real
I am notorious – or admired – for offering real blogging guidance.
I share my highs, lows, and everything in between because honest humans transparently lay it all out there.
How?
I write every single word here. I create everything with my own mind based on my intimately personal experiences. I outsource nothing.
My online course for sale and eBooks for sale are…..MINE. I create everything I sell.
As for my presentation style, some deem it to be rough and ready. I am OK with that because human beings speak like….human beings. Who uses the King’s English? Even well-spoken folks chat informally. Otherwise, this crowd comes off as total douche bags.
Most people learn best in casual, informal settings. My course and eBooks are:
- highly practical
- easy to understand
- highly informal
I never use AI to do anything.
I never copy other bloggers.
I share my experiences in my voice.
My genuine experiences give you the greatest value. Like consuming wholesome food with natural ingredients, authentic content offers you the greatest value. Real content tastes great, feels satiating and yields the greatest nutritious value.
Pure ingredients fuel truly helpful content.
Honest bloggers who write posts based on personal experience tap into the purest ingredient of all: transparent, good old fashioned, personal blogging work.
I harp on doing the blogging leg work to become skilled, credible and seen.
Blogging shortcuts do not exist.
Either do the work to give readers the optimal product or shortcut your way to failure.
I Give You Permission to Share Your Story
Sharing my story in my voice sets off a chain reaction.
By being real for you, I passively give you permission to be real.
We all need a shot of blogging courage sometimes. The world is critical. Everyone seems scared. Most bloggers follow others, attempting to mimic the masses, due to the fear of standing out and being criticized as an outsider.
The fear of standing out scares bloggers into using AI. Some use it sparingly to publish content. Others become full-blown AI bloggers.
But artificial content is not real. AI blogging is filler. Cheap and easy to make, AI bloggers offer readers poor-tasting content void of nutrition.
As AI usage increases, some bloggers offer a piss-poor experience spotted from a mile away.
Some readers become personally insulted; how could a blogger sign off on AI-generated trash?
Literally, some affix their names to posts clearly generated exclusively by artificial intelligence.
This is like charging $280 USD here in Las Vegas for a tomahawk Wagyu steak and serving a sirloin.
People see through the ruse quickly.
Good luck maintaining credibility with such shifty business tactics.
AI-generated, lifeless, generic content serves no one.
Let me repeat that.
IT HELPS NO ONE IN A LASTING WAY.
The more artificial your content sounds, the less people read it, trust it and share it with their tribes.
You lose because your readers lost.
Your readers lost because you used something artificial to create something pretty much unreal.
Be Truly Helpful
I implore bloggers to publish truly helpful content.
Writing your own words in your voice sets this process into motion.
Like apricot jam with a few natural ingredients, wholesome, natural content yields optimal value for readers.
Organic traffic flows to genuine, one-of-a-kind content.
Blogging income flows to genuine, one-of-a-kind content.
Loyal blogging communities commit to authentic content.
What Is the Trade Off?
“Something for nothing” does not exist in the world.
Practice your writing. Aim for 500 words daily. Either write offline or spend time writing content for social media.
Write, write then write some more.
Hammer out your voice.
Get clear through your repetition.
Publishing truly helpful content in your voice takes a full-on commitment to writing.
Being real is not easy or comfortable. Self-conscious doubts skewer most blogging careers. We all just want to fit in. Edging away from the herd feels terrifying.
Writing like the dickens guides you to overcome these fears. From there, you give yourself permission to write in your voice.
Conclusion
The most profitable content depends on one ingredient: your work in your voice.
Everything artificial adds cheap filler to the process.
Jamming tons of artificial ingredients into the process – via AI blogging and mimicry – only makes readers sick.
Do the work yourself.
Serve wholesome, nutritious content from the heart.
Build a full-time blogging business as readers come back for more.
