Blogging for a living is fun, freeing, fulfilling and rewarding.
But doing this full-time involves work.
Start your blog with realistic expectations. Like developing any skill, becoming successful takes time, patience and being consistent.
Follow these tips to blog for a living.
A1: Time and Energy
Every blogger walks a different path but blogging for a living usually requires thousands of hours of work to become skilled, credible and connected enough to go the pro blogger route. No human being skips the thousands of hours of work and succeeds because you need to practice for years to get really good at blogging.
Blogging for a living demands you to make a full commitment to blogging. Making a full commitment feels challenging sometimes as you wade into discomfort. Wading into discomfort forces you to face fears for quite a while. Facing fears for quite a while feels taxing as you put in 5, 7 or 10 hour days of generous service. Bloggers tend to avoid fear, struggle and fail. Future pros put in the time and energy no matter whatever fears arise in their minds.
1: Invest in Your Blogging Education
Invest money to get the best, proven, success-promoting blogging tips from the best bloggers. Cut your learning curve.
Start doing what works from day one to position yourself to go pro. Learn in the proper formatting from successful bloggers who inspire you to succeed.
Investing in your blogging education is like paying your blogging tuition.
Pay up to play up. Invest money in the best counsel from the best bloggers to get all you need to know in one spot.
2: Pick One Niche
Pick one niche. Develop topical authority. Successful entrepreneurs give all professional attention and energy to one thing; resulting in doing that one thing well, to the point of going full time. Spreading energies among 2 or 3 or 5 niches dissipates your power because where your energy goes, grows. Be a specialist, not a generalist, to blog for a living.
Blogging for a living requires you to become a specialist. Pick one niche. Learn that niche inside-out. Master that niche. Go pro by being a specialist.
3: Cultivate an Abundance Consciousness
Humans tend to believe deeply in scarcity, lack, limitation and poverty. Feel money fears. Release money fears. Cultivate your abundance consciousness to blog for a living. Feel appreciative of each cent you earn online.
Blogging abundantly feels alien to most new bloggers because we typically grow up being imprinted with a poverty consciousness. Humans teach fellow humans to think through prisms of lack, limitation and loss. Facing, feeling and releasing fear shifts your mindset from poverty to abundance. Make this uncomfortable decision because pros need to blog abundantly for a bit before becoming a professional blogger.
4: Create Helpful Content
Solve reader problems. Earn trust. Position yourself to blog full time. Creating helpful content earns credibility you need to become a professional blogger. Publish 1-2 helpful posts weekly for newbies. Consider increasing frequency with experience. Publish content clear and to the point. Content makes you credible. Creating content persistently increases your exposure. Be creative to prosper.
Listen closely to your readers. Ask them to share their problems. Pay attention to their feedback. Helpful content appears to be helpful in the eyes of the beholder; your readers. The way to be helpful is to listen to how your readers want you to help them.
Be thorough. Take your time to ensure you publish in-depth content. Being generous positions you to establish a well-known blog and brand in your niche. Being seen as credible becomes easier if you impress readers with your thorough content that solves their problems.
Publish helpful content. Position yourself to go pro.
5: Bond with Bloggers through Service
Be generous. Comment on blogs. Promote blogger in your niche through social media and your blog. Make blogging buddies. Blogging buddies help you go full time by:
- endorsing you
- promoting you
- hiring you
- buying your stuff
The trick is giving without asking. Do not expect anything from your fellow blogger. Earn trust by helping bloggers without trying to squeeze anything out of these folks. Point blank; few bloggers master this skill. Naturally, few bloggers move higher in circles during their blogging career.
Be generous, patient and persistent to make a powerful impact on fellow bloggers. Help bloggers freely. Ask for nothing in return. Earn their trust and friendship as you move toward blogging for a living.
6: Open Multiple Income Streams
Open multiple streams of income. Make a living by receiving money through 3, 5, 10 or more income streams. Visualize having 10 fishing poles in the water. Some fish bites, eventually. Multiple fish bite over time. People buy your eBooks, or purchase your audio books, or buy a sponsored post, or hire you. Blog abundantly. Cash in by monetizing aggressively.
Income stream ideas:
- write and self-publish eBooks
- offer coaching
- offer consulting
- place ads on your blog
- publish sponsored posts
Pay close attention top topics resonant with readers. Serve premium solutions based on these problems.
7: Revisit Your Reason Why Often
Blogging feels tough sometimes. Revisit why you blog to pull yourself through rough spots. Dwell on fun. Dwell on freedom. Focus on these emotions. See the journey through. Most never enjoy the perks of blogging for a living because they have no reason why or a weak reason why. Blog for freedom. Win.
Even though following practical blogging tips to succeed seems important the critical step involves picking a fun, freeing reason why you blog. Bloggers usually quit because few blog mainly for fun and freedom. Lacking these overpowering drivers causes you to quit quickly.
Find your fun, freeing intent. Hold it near and dear. Blog generously, patiently and persistently for years to become a professional blogger.
Conclusion
Blogging for a living is possible, probable then a certainty if you blog mainly for fun and freedom over the long haul.
Follow these tips. Be patient.
Go pro by sticking to the fundamentals.
Ryan Biddulph is the owner and creator of Blogging From Paradise Dot Com.