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OK, you can spell Blogger……but can you write like one? As I mentioned last week, the Internet is becoming more and more competitive. Only the best and the brightest will survive. As one week blends into another, and two weeks become fifty-two, focus can really take a hit.
Most Bloggers would like to prosper at their chosen …
Last week’s lesson had to do with outsourcing your content, when you want to use a guest post, and establishing a rhythm. I mentioned in that post that I think it is best to focus your guest posting on the weekends; the rest of the week is yours. Are you up to it? Can you handle the demands of competing on the National stage of “The New Media”?
Competing doesn’t always mean or denote money. I’m referring to your readers here. Can you compete and build a following with the skills that you bring to Blogging? If you have never written as a professional, or are not trained in English, you have your work cut out for you. As more and more money becomes available to the best writers in the world, it will become harder and harder for you to attract a wide audience and provide continued growth to your Blog, as well as to maintain interest in your work.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that you must have great skills or the ability to develop them. One option is to have your own editors such as I have here at Bloggers Market, or another is to out-source your editing needs. A lot of Bloggers are of the mind that if they are going to out-source the editing, why not out-source the writing? Indeed, this is a good question that provides no easy answer.
Remember that you will build a following because people will want to read your writing, not someone else’s. That’s why providing your own products is so lucrative: because readers have to come to you to purchase them. They can’t find you or your products anywhere else except at your Blog or your Affiliates. But make no mistake, no one cares about your goods or services if you can’t spell or punctuate your own writing.
For those of you that are interested in becoming Bloggers, welcome back! For those of you that want to be Internet marketeers ………. good luck. I’m not really an “AdSense Pirate” type of guy. Meaning I like to Blog, instead of promoting any new affiliate offer that comes my way.
Once you reach this level and you make a commitment to become a Blogger. The path is a treacherous one indeed. At this point in time you can forget all the “16-year-old earns $217,043.00 in six days” e-mails and “Blogging To The Bank” Blogging courses. You’re a little beyond that now. Anything that you are interested in as a Blogger will more than likely have to come from a Blogger. What I like to label as the advanced techniques.
The first advanced technique that you will have to confront is the outsourced content technique. I’m of the thought that if you use outsourced content, use it on the weekends. Because if you start using “Guest Posts” all the time, so that you can free up your time to develop your products, your readers will go elsewhere. Then you have no market. You have to stay in touch with your readers. You have to post at least once a day. That takes a lot of work and all of the Bloggers that I know of have tried to escape the jail of “Blogging Editor/Writer”, most with limited success.
I’ve seen Blogging Villages that are pretty successful and I regularly follow one. These are Blogs that are set-up to host a different Blogger everyday of the week on a set schedule. These Bloggers usually have Blogs of their own and join the Village to write once a week.
The irony of course is that Blogging allows a great deal of freedom, if ………. you don’t intend on earning a living with it. If you do than you have to follow some common sense techniques.
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