Camels in the desert North of Ibri, Oman.
OK; I am all for folks earning some sweet coin through blogging.
No problems with that. People living a worldly life tend to enjoy having some money to cover basic needs and to live in a relative state of comfort. Cool.
But a while back, I came across someone who make Bruce Wayne look like a Buddhist monk. He made Tony Stark look like Oliver Twist. Dude was 100% all about that chedda in all he did. This would have been OK, but unfortunately, when you comes across ONLY as a money hungry blogger who is out to make cash and do nothing else, readers kinda pick up on that vibe.
Most head for the hills. Greedy types need be avoided. Some greedier aspiring or struggling bloggers flock to these money hungry fools, the classic blind leading the blind. Everybody winds up struggling and failing, eventually. A select few suckers completely believe obsessing over money is the quickest way to make money online. Literally, these dingbats get sucked in, lose dough and label the greedy bloggers as being scammers, even though the scamming required their full, foolish participation.
Guys; it is OK to run a make money online blog. Pat Flynn does it with integrity. But when the blog is pretty much all about making money, via flashy ads, hyped up income claims, and MORE CAPS and !!!!!!!! than virus news updates right now, run, don’t walk, away from these folks. Why? Fear manifests as money greed. Fear-filled bloggers are a a ticking time bomb. Or at least, their blogs are ticking time bombs. In no time, explosion is imminent.
Greedy bloggers blog on borrowed time because greedy bloggers build their blogs on a foundation of quicksand. No value = no foundation. No foundation = guaranteed collapse.
Greedy bloggers blog on borrowed time because greedy bloggers build their blogs on a foundation of quicksand. No value = no foundation. No foundation = guaranteed collapse.Click To Tweet
Let these bloggers go. Focus instead on bloggers with integrity. Surround yourself with bloggers fully invested in the process of helping bloggers learn blogging fundamentals. Hang with these folks. Learn their ways. Observe how they carry themselves. See how generous they are in sharing helpful, valuable content? Genuine bloggers tell you how it is. I have no issues telling you you’ll need to blog your ass off for 10,000 plus hours to become stunningly skilled, stupid successful, and….add whatever other analogy, via alliteration, you’d like. Just make sure to use the letter “s”.
Anyway, honest bloggers rarely if ever use income claims because these folks are all about service, and spend little time and energy on self-service. Observe someone like my friend Alonzo Pichardo. He makes it all about his readers, helping these folks generously for over a decade. Even though he is highly successful and does quite well for himself, he never talks about it.
When is the last time you saw me holding a paycheck or counting cash? Never. I am all about showing you that you can become a successful blogger. Sharing smiling selfies from all over the globe inspires you to visualize yourself in my place. It’s for you! Plus, readers explicitly tell me to share more selfies because they luv ’em; gotta give the people what they want, eh?
Pedasi Panama sunset
Guys; be super careful about adding all types of dollar signs to your blog posts titles, email subject headers, and in your blog posts, themselves. Usually, unless you are fully clear on using such an approach, your blog flashes a serious red flag to legitimate aspiring bloggers. Only the greedy and desperate beat a hasty path to your $$$$$ and guess what? These folks make horrible readers and even worse customers. Greedy or desperate bloggers are highly impatient, terribly demanding, hyper critical and label you a scammer the split second they don’t make money overnight, using your approach. Does that sound like a fun readership to attract? Didn’t think so.
Follow bloggers who blog with integrity, like Sue Ann Bubacz, Donna Merrill and Lisa Sicard. Each blogger does it the right way, like Alonzo, creating helpful content, building genuine friendships and taking a long term, patient, persistent approach to building a rock solid blogging foundation.
Sazzadul Bari, Apurva Vishwakarma, Mudassir Ahmed and Vishwajeet Kumar are dear blogging friends who:
- blog with integrity
- share great value through their blogs
- generously invited me to guest post prolifically on their blogs
Follow these kind, skilled bloggers. Each credible blogger focuses almost exclusively on the process of creating and connecting and little on money outcomes because each knows that caring for the process allows the process to care for you.
Follow the heroes. Not the zeroes.
