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Pro blogging careers hinge on doing simple things daily for a long time.
Never reverse the process.
Do not believe one goes pro by doing complex things every once in a while.
Bloggers want to write that one, complex, viral post unlocking unlimited traffic and profits. Going pro seems a logical solution based on the heels of that single post. Or maybe writing a few viral posts sporadically pieces together a blogging career…..eh? Link together a few complex actions executed on 3 days over 4 weeks and you may just become a professional blogger.
Bullshit.
Blogging never works that way.
Going pro is doing simple things every day for a long period of time.
The long period of time spans years.
Sit back.
Relax.
Chill.
Since you will be here – daily – for quite a while you may as well do the right things with the right mindset to succeed versus doing the wrong things hurriedly with the wrong mindset to fail.
Think in Daily Terms Spanning Years
Think like a pro blogger now even if you find yourself in the amateur lot.
Think in daily terms spanning years to adopt the proper blogging frame of mind.
Full time bloggers take baby steps daily well before going full time. Being a full time blogger is basically laying a mansion together brick by brick, day by day, without taking shortcuts. Taking shortcuts creates a shoddy building and future collapse.
Cutting corners lays a horrible foundation for both your mansion and blog. Mansions and blogs both come tumbling down if you try to do complex things in a short time frame.
Build a mansion and pro blogging career by doing simple things daily for years. Take baby steps daily to build something brilliant over the long haul.
That’s how blogging works.
That’s how you go pro.
Exit Survival Mode
Exit survival mode.
Stop gauging, judging and analyzing statistics in 24 hour time frames.
This massive mistake scares you into doing complex things over the short term which completely destroys your blogging foundation day, after day, after day, obliterating the full time blogging career you crave every 24 hours.
As insane as it sounds, the process unfolds frequently in the blogging niche. Been there. Done that. I still need to spot 24 hour stat spotting warning signs at times to forgive these fears.
Fear is tricky if not genius. Unconscious fears seem to be incredibly clever.
In a way, your blogging career may seem to be your mind playing the same old tape recorder of fears, lack, limitations and scarcity again and again. Looking back to the past chains you to past struggles and failure.
Renew your mind.
Start afresh.
Pay close attention to how full time bloggers do simple things daily for a long time.
Frame each simple daily action as a baby step, or, a brick laid for your blogging mansion.
Extend Time Frames Not Actions
Extend time frames for your blogging campaign.
Do not extend actions.
For example, add weeks, then months, of simple daily actions to your blogging plan. Beware cutting time frames because the obvious byproduct becomes doing insane, complex, ineffective things leading to blogging struggles and failure.
Extending actions could be writing and publishing a 12,000 word blog post or writing and publishing 5 short-form, 600 word posts daily. Each attempt cuts corners to lessen time frames.
As we already discussed, blogging to eventually go full time involves doing simple things daily for a long time. Doing complex things sporadically for a short time frame guarantees your blogging struggles and failure by not following the formula for blogging success.
Think Simple for a Long Time
For example, I write and publish simple, long-form blog posts on a daily basis for now.
I also publish simple updates across social media affixed to the #bloggingtips hashtag.
Doing each basic thing daily for a while is not complex, difficult or terribly challenging. Following this strategy feels uncomfortable sometimes but largely feels easy enough.
Each blogging tips themed blog post and #bloggingtips tagged social media update gradually expands my presence in the blogging tips niche. Bloggers who desire blogging tips organically come across:
- Blogging From Paradise
- my Twitter handle
- my Facebook handle
- my LinkedIn handle
based on my simple, long-term approach.
I do not publish complex, pillar-style content. Nor do I publish 10 thin posts daily. Both approaches lead to failure because cutting corners to game the blogging system never works as a long haul business strategy. Short-cutters burn out and quit.
Doing simple things like publishing long-form posts frequently and publishing basic blogging tips advice to social media daily establishes a strong foundation for your blogging business. All of that smart, simple work adds up to something substantial over the years because 1 blog post daily becomes 365 blog posts over 1 year. 1 blog post daily over 2 years becomes well over 700 blog posts.
Picture 700 long-form, detailed, blogging tips themed posts floating around the blogging tips niche 2 years down the road.
Do you see what I mean?
Imagine 1000 to 1500 social media updates floating around the blogging tips niche with a #bloggingtips hashtag affixed complementing the 700 blogging tips blog posts.
Visualize this synergy.
This is why the simple, daily, long-term approach brings exponentially-increasing, organic blog traffic and blogging business over the long haul.
Outworking, outlasting and outshining most other bloggers over the long haul – long after most quit – promotes substantial targeted traffic and business growth.
After blogging for a long time, few bloggers remain from your beginner blogger days. You remain though because you stuck it out. You win the prize.
Of course a new generation of bloggers in your niche seems to be on the come up but they do not have 2, 3, 5 or 10 year’s worth of simple, daily blogging actions in their arsenal yet. Father Time has not been on their side long enough.
But you, having paid your dues to Father Time, appear to be everywhere in your blogging niche by doing simple things daily for a very long time.
Conclusion
Never underestimate the power of simple blogging work multiplied by a long time frame.
The long term results of your patient effort can astound you.
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