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No; it does not.
Why beat around the blogging bush?
Blogging luck does not exist.
Bloggers appear to get lucky breaks. Some seem to experience a lucky turn of events.
But appearances and seeming circumstances are illusions. Both do not exist. Neither are true.
Blogging luck is longevity with a dash of helpfulness tossed in.
Check out this example.
Twitter “Luck” for Bloggers
Peep this image:
658,600 tweets flowed from my account to the main stream since 2008.
15 year’s worth of tweeting with a touch of helpfulness mixed in puts me on the radar screen. I may appear to experience chance encounters with readers. Perhaps customers seem to find my eBooks by luck. But in reality, tweeting well over 600,000 times to publish a handful of helpful tweets created the exposure and credibility required to attract blog readers and eBook clients.
Fishing Net Analogy
Imagine a fishing net that catches your dinner. Casting the large net far and wide captures fish.
Imagine someone tweeting 650,000 helpful tweets since 2008. Each tweet forms part of a seeming net that catches the attention and energy of bloggers searching for blogging tips.
The net grows in size and effectiveness as a function of helpfulness multiplied by time. Sticking to your blogging strategy of being truly helpful across a wide range of channels seems to increase your luck but just gives you greater exposure and credibility, in reality.
Blogging luck does not exist.
Being truly helpful on a daily basis for a long time increases your exposure exponentially over the long haul.
Everything depends on your full-on commitment to doing simple, helpful things for a long time.
Following this system yields fantastic results but over a long time frame.
Think Marathon Not Sprint
Frame blogging as a long marathon not a quick sprint.
Tweeting 100 times over a few weeks is the first step or two of your blogging marathon.
Do not judge your 2 week, 100 tweet results; this is the “fruit” borne of a quick sprint. At this point, consider yourself as having woven the first few threads of your blogging fishing net. Frame yourself as having just started the net-building process. Relax. You will be here for a while. You have a full net to build. Plus, unlike a fishing net that seems somewhat limited in size, your tweet net, and blog post net, and blog commenting net, and live broadcast net, can expand seemingly into infinity.
No limits exist in the cyber world.
I know most of us cannot even fathom this concept but it is true.
The only appearance of a blogging limit consists of internet access. But 5 billion people access the internet now. Your targeted readership is considerably smaller for now…..but who knows how many of these 5 billion human beings will get turned on to your:
- blogging niche
- blog
- products
- services
through your abundant, unlimited, generous vision and willingness to act on the dream?
The more you be truly helpful for a long time, the greater the size of your blogging net.
The possibilities are limitless.
Think Big
Thriving entrepreneurs often guide followers to think big.
Blogging-wise, thinking big means thinking wide but targeted in marketing terms.
For example, after publishing this blog post I will promote it across:
- YouTube Shorts
- Facebook Reels
- LinkedIn videos
- text updates to Facebook Groups
- text updates to LinkedIn
- MeWe
- YouTube text updates
- Medium
- Pinterest Boards
I target each share with a #bloggingtips hashtag or by sharing in a highly targeted group on Facebook.
I may even go wider by the time this post goes live since I schedule posts for 2 weeks out.
Who knows how expansively I may be thinking at that point?
I publish targeted, long form content to drive the maximum volume of traffic through search engines and various other organic channels.
Think targeted but wide to cast a wide, targeted net for quality blog traffic.
What appears to be blogging luck increases as you continue to cast your blogging net in the right spots but with a wide approach.
Train Your Mind to Let Go of Excuses
Train your mind to release blogging excuses.
Forgive the luck excuse. Let go an idea that some bloggers seem blessed with special talents that never needed to be honed over the long haul.
Every blogger possesses some inherent gifts. People seem to have innate abilities.
But only a few future pros decide to develop these gifts to the full time level by practicing, gaining credibility and scaling effectively.
Let go struggling bloggers who enable your excuse-making ways. Helpful bloggers empower you. Unhelpful bloggers victimize you.
Surround yourself only with professional bloggers to learn from the best. Pros also lift you up when you need a pick me up. Most of all, pros tend to tell you the truth when it comes to teaching successful blogging tips.
Of course, most struggling bloggers prefer not to hear the truth. But if you want to be free you will appreciate pros who tell it like it is.
Note; many pros offer truthful feedback from a compassionate perspective. Seek out full time bloggers who give you advice tactfully.
Pros Ground You in Reality
Professional bloggers point to their patient, generous work as forming the foundation for their thriving career.
Virtually no pro talks about getting lucky.
No successful blogger gets a lucky break. All thriving bloggers work diligently to cast their blogging net far and wide, in the right spots.
Hang out with the blogging big dawgs.
Get the straight blogging dope to get on the right blogging track.
Get to Blogging Work
Commit 100% to blogging successfully.
Get to blogging work right now.
You can and will thrive if you follow simple blogging strategies for a long time. Everything changes based on your full commitment to blogging.
Publish detailed, long form blog posts. Engage in genuine blogger outreach. Monetize through multiple income channels.
Adopt a long term approach to building a successful blogging business. Keep at it for a while.
Imagine yourself building a thriving offline business. Picture yourself opening a corner store. How long would it take to break even? How long would it take to turn a profit? How long would it take to turn a big-time profit?
Think about the time element involved in building a highly successful offline business. Consider somewhat similar time frames – in terms of years – to ground yourself in reality while building a professional blogging business.
Be patient.
What seems to be luck will increase for you by creating a long term blogging vision grounding you for the inevitable ups and downs on your blogging journey.
Conclusion
Blogging luck does not exist.
Do not buy into the BS excuses of the ego voice rattling around in your head.
Get to work. Follow the blogging basics. Stick to your blog for the long haul.
Accelerate your blogging success by following basic blogging fundamentals patiently and persistently.
Blogging Resources
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