London, UK
After scanning my Facebook messages recently I noticed something.
One individual asked me for blogging help. I happily sent him a Blogging From Paradise post for guidance. He reached out for assistance to learn more about blogging. I happily helped him with blog content.
The remaining bloggers came on too strong by asking me to join their business opportunity. A few tried to be more pleasant by offering to set up a call discussing their business opportunity. Each person did not take the first step of building a relationship with me. This was mistake #1.
Why would I sign up with a stranger? What do these individuals know about me? Perhaps I am a number to them. Maybe they know that I run a blog. Maybe they have no idea that I run a blog.
I may even be a number instead of a human being to these folks who push their business on me.
I don’t take it personally. But I want to share guidance to prevent this glaring blogging error.
How can you run a successful blogging business if you waste hours, days, weeks, months and years trying to convince untargeted strangers to buy your stuff, to hire you or to join your business venture?
Every 20 mindless pitches can be an income-generating blog post.
Every 5 day’s worth of chasing strangers can be an income-generating eBook.
Each person you piss off can be a collaborator to help grow your blogging business.
Reframe your blogging approach.
Stop coming on too strong.
Stop Coming on Too Strong
Pushing your blogging business before building a relationship based on:
- genuine chats
- generous service
- collaboration
is one example of coming on strong.
If a human being does not know you why would the individual want to buy from a stranger? Do you trust strangers to guide you genuinely? Would you give your bank account information to a stranger on Facebook who pitches you an opportunity? Why would you offer them the precious commodities of your time and energy if you do not know, like or trust strangers?
Relax.
Build relationships with human beings. Make friends with people on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Set the bond-building process in motion by chatting casually with people.
Chat Casually
I love it when someone messages me something like:
“Hey Ryan, great blog. I love your traveling lifestyle.”
Ding ding ding! We have a winner, folks.
Chatty bloggers understand how to build friendships. Taking an authentic interest in someone – instead of trying to get someone to give you money or to become a customer, client or team member – makes you irresistible in a world of manipulative bloggers who go through people like paper towels.
Trust Yourself
Trust yourself.
Trust your blogging abilities.
Let go any urge to come on too strong by forcing your business on people.
Trusting yourself removes any desire to cold pitch strangers from your mind. Trusting in your blogging abilities allows blogging business to flow to you.
Build a thriving blogging campaign by showing posture. Let customers and clients organically grow your business by coming across your blog, buying your products and hiring you for your services. Allow customers and clients to take the next step; observe how they build your referral business.
Let your blogging work speak for itself instead of screaming your blogging products and services at unsuspecting strangers on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and through email.
Confident bloggers outshine scared, desperate bloggers because love attracts and fear repels.
Trust in the Blogging Process
Trust in the blogging process to let go any “thirsty” fears compelling you to blind pitch strangers.
Panicked bloggers come on strong.
Calm, confident bloggers who trust the blogging process do not allow doubt to creep into their mind. Believing deeply in the blogging process lets success flow your way organically.
Creating and connecting positions you to succeed without chasing business, straining or striving. Knowing that following a simple system yields success lets traffic and money flow to you versus reversing the order to sprint after traffic and business.
Attract Do Not Chase
Wise bloggers attract business.
Unwise bloggers tire themselves out by chasing business.
Do you want to burn out or thrive exponentially over the long haul?
You decide.
You choose.
There Is a Better Way
Some bloggers have no idea that a better way exists.
Pushing your business on strangers is not the best way to build a strong foundation for your business. As a matter of fact, this may be the worst way to boost blogging income because the return on your efforts is poor.
Pitching products and services to strangers wastes time and energy on untargeted individuals. Robbing yourself of the opportunity to publish detailed content to increase organic, passive business is another mistake consistent with wasting hours daily shoving products and services down people’s throats.
Create and connect. Be truly helpful and make friends.
This is the better way.
Follow these basic steps to make money blogging through power not force.
Use Power Not Force
Help people with detailed content.
Build strong relationships with readers and bloggers in your niche.
Monetize your blog through multiple income channels.
Use power to draw business to you.
Resist using force to chase business because this fear-based approach burns through people, social media profiles and email addresses.
Burning bridges at every turn makes blogging stressful.
Why make blogging tougher when you can enjoy building a business that brings increasing returns over the long term?
Conclusion
Blog with posture.
Build a blog that generates passive income organically.
If you build it the right way then customers and clients will come.
No need to scare them off by chasing them.
