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Before becoming a pro blogger one needs to BE a pro blogger for a period of time.
How?
Developing a pro blogging mindset now is the surefire way to eventually become a pro.
First, think, feel and act like a pro. Gradually, quality traffic and blogging income responds to your:
- mindset
- pro blogging creations
- pro blogging connections
For example, every professional blogger begins blogging as an amateur with no traffic and income. But thinking like a pro influences amateurs to publish long-form, detailed, targeted blog posts patiently and persistently for quite a while.
During this stretch, nothing appears to be happening in traffic and income terms. Few read your blog. No one buys your stuff or hires you.
Amateur bloggers who think like pros do not panic during this growth phase. Thinking like a pro allows one to recognize the building phase.
First, you build your blog the right way. Nothing appears to happen because your skills, credibility and exposure simply aren’t the pro level, yet.
Success does find you but only after you patiently work to build a strong blogging presence.
Think like a pro now to avoid common amateur-thinking shakeouts fueled by panic.
Develop blogging posture. Trust in yourself. Trust in the blogging process.
Learn blogging from professionals to get professional blogger results.
Learn blogging from full time bloggers to begin thinking, feeling and acting like a full time blogger now.
Learn Blogging From Full Time Bloggers
I made a wise decision years ago.
I decided to learn blogging only from professional bloggers.
Full time bloggers pointed me in the right direction. Professionals guided me to think like a professional blogger well before achieving pro blogging level results.
For example, I came across two of the top bloggers on earth in their respective niches who blogged patiently, persistently and generously for years before their income grew substantially. One future pro published 2 long form posts daily for well over a year before income slowly trickled to the individual.
Through their patient example, this pro taught me to trust myself, to trust the full time blogging process and to think like a pro during the building phase. More than anything, I deemed the illusion of a long blogging drought to be a normal, natural phase of becoming a full time blogger.
Of course, bloggers who think like amateurs struggle, panic, fail and quit during the building phase because thinking like an amateur brings amateur level results. Most bloggers struggle because most think like amateurs. Few learn blogging only from pros. Most do not even learn how to blog successfully, choosing to wing it, struggle and fail for their full blogging careers.
Follow Pros to Model Your Campaign after their Example
Learning how one top level pro published 2 long form posts daily to net $600 at the end of year one formed a patient, persistent model for my blogging campaign.
He exuded posture, confidence and a deep trust in self and in the pro blogging process. I decided to follow his lead to embody the same level of posture, confidence and deep trust in self and in the blogging process during my building phase.
I also forgave amateur bloggers who thought like amateurs, looking past them and their struggles, putting their experiences in my rear view mirror. Being around images and thoughts of struggle never helped my blogging campaign. If anything, networking with struggling bloggers held back Blogging From Paradise.
Looking past these relationships never felt like a personal thing to me. I deeply appreciate all blogging bonds I established over the years.
But I had to let go struggle in order to thrive.
Letting go images of struggle, straining and striving goaded me to follow pro advice, to think like a pro and to model Blogging From Paradise on pro blogger examples. How pros thought became normal to me. How amateurs thought – when I came across their blogging questions – seemed out of blogging pattern for me. Being out of blogging pattern, I looked past their example to focus exclusively on the shining examples laid out by thriving, professional bloggers.
How Can You Think Like a Pro Now?
Wherever you are blogging-wise, think like a pro now.
Begin to think like a full time blogger. How can you blog like a full-timer? How can you develop a deeper sense of trust in yourself and in the blogging process?
Do you need to establish posture? Perhaps you need to close comments to rid your blog of individuals who do not closely read and follow your content but who just want a free, No-Follow backlink.
Maybe it’s time to write and sell your first blogging eBook.
Perhaps you need to write and schedule posts for a few weeks out to become as prolific as a pro through a mindful, forward-thinking blogging campaign meticulously planned and carefully executed.
I bumped up my blogging game a while back by going the scheduling route. Writing and scheduling one post daily – after my individual writing blitz and scheduling surge – allowed me to schedule posts for 13 days out.
Do the work ahead of time, mindfully, patiently and intelligently.
Allow that work to drive passive traffic and income down the road.
Conclusion
Train your mind to think like a professional blogger now.
Lay the foundation for a thriving blogging business during your amateur blogger days.
