Fethiye, Turkey
I read a post from a blogger on a Facebook Group a few moments ago.
He asked a question about freelancers who offer translation services.
The blogger questioned the legitimacy of this crowd. He wanted to know if the individuals were crooks because each claimed to offer free work but demanded payment before submitting the finished product.
I can almost guarantee with absolute certainty that he did not come across these freelancers through their reputable self-hosted blogs. He probably found them through free sites or perhaps a cheap freelancing service.
Ya get what ya pay for, folks.
His quandary is common; when you hire someone outside of their credible WordPress Dot Org blog you run a severe risk of facing all types of resistance.
Why?
None of these individuals prove that they:
- know their stuff
- exhibit tremendous skill
because none publishes detailed, in-depth, targeted content through a trusted blog.
All pretty much make personal promises through free or cheap sites.
How do you think that turns out more often than not?
Here’s how it turns out; bloggers who’ve been scammed turn to random strangers on social media forums looking for someone to trust and get no answers.
He overlooked a critical truth that most newbies overlook.
Blogs are good money.
At the end of the day, publishing a steady volume of detailed, targeted content through a self-hosted blog moves you higher in income circles beyond the:
- scammers
- spammers
- riff-raff
- jackasses
Almost every new blogger overlooks this during their early days because they cannot understand the pure potential in how teaching people for free convinces them to pay a premium for your blogging products and services.
If that dude on the Facebook Group visited a trusted freelancer’s blog, read a few posts and trusted the translator based on their content he’d have paid a premium to get his content translated.
However, he got nothing for nothing. He found scheisters on free Facebook groups or for a few dollars on a cheap freelancer site and got nothing in return for his meager efforts. Aka, his freelancers held their alleged free work for ransom.
If you really work on your blog patiently for a while to publish in-depth, targeted content frequently, it is like building in a pricing calculator which steadily rises as your exposure and credibility both expand. Prospering people will read your posts, trust you and pay the price. Or better yet, prospering people will see the money they spent through your blog as an investment in their freedom.
For example, when you charge $10 to $20 for a robust PDF guide anyone who reads 1, 2 or 3 of your detailed blog posts deems you as being credible and buys the guide without hesitating. They know based on your in-depth posts that the 10 or 20 bucks will be a wise investment; they loved the 1200 word blog post so they will really love the 15,000 word, complete guide and pay a premium for it.
The Cost Is Patient Work
Moving higher in blogging circles to charge and receive top dollar comes at the cost of publishing detailed content frequently versus making personal promises on social media. The content sells your wares for you passively but it takes great mindfulness and a willingness to be truly helpful to reach that point.
Working for free for a long time ain’t always comfortable in a world of most humans who work only for pay via a job. Overcoming this poverty programming challenges even strong-minded bloggers at times but it is part of the journey towards worldly freedom.
Most beginners do not even see the profit potential. The masses view themselves as someone who readers would not trust or follow for any number of reasons and never even dream that one would hire them or buy their stuff down the road.
Some see blogging as some joke per the ridiculousness spied on social media. Twitter ain’t a blogging picnic in specific circles. Instagram, Facebook and YouTube go heavy on hype and light on substance in certain circles.
Think of being a new blogger who sees all of these images and correlates blogging with angry Tweeters verbally assailing each other and YouTubers boasting about their big bucks with a few easy, simple steps to follow to make big bucks, too.
Of course most new bloggers overlook the immense profit potential with this gig as newbies. Most cannot understand that if you patiently work for free for a sustained period of time that you get beyond all the bottom feeders, dingbats and dishonest folks either working for peanuts or making bold claims and offering less than genuine guidance.
Running a well-stocked blog moves you higher in circles because the trust you gain by teaching people for free influences abundant people to invest freely in your courses, coaching, eBooks or services. Imagine leap frogging all the individuals selling eBooks for 99 cents, rendering service for $5 or claiming to offer free service then holding client work for a ransom. These poor souls reside in the world of free, cheap and struggle, scraping out a meager living in the blogging sewer.
Meanwhile, disciplined bloggers who patiently and mindfully blogged for free for a long time move up to the blogging penthouse of individuals who charge and receive a premium for their products and services.
This is exactly what almost all newbie bloggers miss.
Blogging is one of the ultimate ways to earn the type of credibility to rocket higher in circles as far as abundance.
Others build thriving freelance businesses through blogging.
See this truth now to take your blog seriously. Accept the astounding potential in this medium.
Blogging From Paradise outranked a billion dollar company on page 1 for a cherished keyword of theirs and I rarely optimize blog posts for SEO.
Shouldn’t that tell you something?
Blogging can level the playing field between you and….anyone…..or any company.
Let that sink in for a few moments before dismissing blogging as an asinine way to air personal grievances then take to social media to condemn anyone with an opposing viewpoint.
I still have to remind myself of this sometimes as a 16 year blogging veteran.
I’m pretty sure that you can use this reminder too.
Imagine if those shady translation service freelancers decided to actually publish detailed, targeted content to their blog, beginning years ago.
Do you really think that they’d be scamming fools on Facebook for $7 USD per transaction?
Of course not.
These bloggers would be attracting high paying clients passively. Or more accurately, their well-stocked, credible blogs and intelligent offline work would be sending high paying clients to them passively.
Doesn’t that sound like a more freeing way to live than scamming Facebook strangers for the price of a decent cup of coffee?
