Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Every blogger has that one network where fellow bloggers sport the posture of an earthworm negligent of doing its core exercises.
For me, it is LinkedIn.
Whatever the reason, a high ratio of LinkedIn users send me messages to:
- promote their opportunity
- pitch me to join their opportunity
- convince me to buy their stuff
- goad me to hire them for their services
What is the only problem with this approach?
I am not kidding in saying that 100% of these pitches come from outside of the blogging tips niche.
Heck, 100% of these pitches also originate outside of the travel blogging niche for the travel blog posts I sometimes publish.
This indicates a huge posturing problem.
Bloggers with little to no posture reach out to non-targeted strangers to pitch their business opportunity.
This is selling steak to a vegetarian.
Even worse?
Many bloggers maintain such little posture that this crowd follows up with non-targeted bloggers once or twice to ask the non-targeted, unqualified stranger if the stranger – who they know nothing about – is interested in making the purchase, getting started or doing whatever they hope for the stranger to do.
Sounds Harsh But It Is True
Using the word “stranger” word sounds harsh, guys.
But I am obviously a stranger to anyone who tries to pitch me anything light years outside of my niche.
As for a lack of posturing, if you reach out to unqualified strangers and pitch anything it proves that you have a major blogging problem: you have not the posture, confidence and clarity to build a blog that draws business to you.
Posturing, confident, clear bloggers build their blog and blogging relationships to draw passive blogging income.
Posturing bloggers get business; they do not ask for business.
Bloggers with posture build their blogs and blogger networks patiently so that the blog and their blogging networks do a helluva lot of selling for them, passively, around the clock.
This is an utter reversal of the upside down thinking observed in my LinkedIn inbox. Most bloggers think upside down. Posturing, successful bloggers think right side up.
Why Is This a Problem?
When you lack posture you have little confidence and reach out to anyone without careful thought, mindfulness, targeting, efficiency and effectiveness.
Reaching out to non-targeted strangers leads to failure, burnout and quitting most of the time.
Non-posturing bloggers in the rarest of cases experience some success through sheer will but waste almost all of their time chasing non-targeted business to land a few clients and customers. Basically, these bloggers work a job that only pays them if they work themselves to the bone enough to reach such a huge group of untargeted folks that a 99% rejection rate nets them a decent income.
The line of thinking: if I can blindly pitch 1000 strangers today in a mindless panic then the single client I land per day eventually generates a steady, full time income.
Cool; so you make a full time income by stressfully being rejected or ignored by strangers for 12 hours a day.
Does that sound like fun?
Does that sound like freedom?
Think this strategy through closely before defending any aspect of this approach.
Lacking posture scares you into chasing anyone for any reason to build blogging business.
Does this sound like an intelligent, targeted, precise approach to growing blogging business?
Develop Posture
Be posturing.
Be confident.
Face fears fueling you to chase business from a lack of posture.
Clear fears from your mind to build a business-generating blog.
Yep; you can build a blog which grows your business while you sleep, vacation, run errands or do anything offline.
Of course it takes work to establish passive income but it takes work to perform an active job masquerading as an alleged business.
If you plan to work why not gain posture and make your blog work for you as a passive income generating vehicle?
Why would you work just to work more and to be entirely dependent on your active participation to earn even a penny?
Practical Tips
- publish targeted, long-form blog posts to establish credibility
- engage in genuine blogger outreach to build your friend network
- open passive income channels like creating online courses and writing eBooks
Think passively.
Build it for them to come to you.
Stop chasing business.
Think like an entrepreneur who grows and owns valuable online real estate. Picture your blog doing work for you. Frame each blog post as a valuable asset driving targeted traffic and blogging income for you around the clock.
This is the posturing blogging mindset.
First, you patiently grow something into a valuable asset that eventually brings you passive returns.
Meanwhile, online entrepreneurs who built no assets rely 100% on pitching utter strangers for every cent of income, 1, 2, 5 or 10 years into their blogging careers.
Does that vision appeal to you?
Or would you rather patiently build a blogging asset that returns your generous, intelligent work to you as money and business, on its own steam?
Posture makes the difference.
Being confident and clear goads bloggers to build a passive income model.
Knowing the inherent power in blogging compels bloggers to let go pitching strangers, not targeting any aspect of their online campaign and chasing business on platforms for squatting alone.
Each LinkedIn message sent to me reveals a cyber squatter who uses a website where they are a user, or, part of the product. Each pitch message has zero shelf-life, never generates passive business and is as useful as toilet paper in terms of a long-term, beneficial solution.
LinkedIn users-products who mean well on one level seem unaware of their posture shortage; otherwise, they’d be building passive-income generating blog posts instead of pitching non-targeted strangers via messages with zero shelf-life and zero passive income potential.
Conclusion
Guys; be confident.
See the power in blogging.
Change your thinking.
Be posturing.
Simply observe this blog post. I set aside an hour or so to write and publish thorough content that solves a pressing online problem. Publishing it produces another Blogging From Paradise asset that can drive passive, targeted traffic and passive, targeted profits around the clock.
Develop posture.
Build your blog.
Enjoy the freedom of living the internet lifestyle.
