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This post is for aspiring bloggers, just in the process of beginning their own blog.
These are the realities that I am sharing with you based upon my own research, and irrespective of what some people (rather most) say that “Blogging is easy”, which I believe is not !
There is tonnes of material available on the Internet, (If one has a vigilant eye) that can show us, the realities associated with Blogging. This post of mine cannot engulf all the realities clubbed together, but I am making an attempt to put some of them based upon my own research & understanding.
I have heard people saying that, to start as a blog, one needs just a laptop or say Internet Connection (Absolutely Right)! These are the necessary materialistic pre requisites, but there are tonnes of important things that one should be aware of, apart from the availability of Computer System and Internet.
Folks, we need to remember that, as to succeed just the way we need proper guidelines, and same way we need to know the realities that can help us, avoid failure & frustration. This is also extremely crucial part which many of us miss out.
One more thing that one needs to understand, there are people who use the term not just “Blogging” but “Blogging Business”. Adding the word Business makes a lot of difference. When we use the word Business, we mean that we want to compete!
Please do think on this reality & when we just use the word Blogging, it is for casual sense.
There are people out there, who will arouse, excite you on setting Blogging Business, I don’t have a view point against them, they are true at their place, but genuine people who arouse & excite you, should also share the realities of blogging, and blog businesses that happens rarely.
If setting of Blog Businesses is so simple, just limited to the availability of Internet and a system to work on, (That’s why there are millions of Blog on the Blogosphere, and a lot of dead ones too), everybody would had been succeeded in creating a Business out of Blog. But this doesn’t happen so, the factors are Innumerable, but the most important one what I have figured out is lack of THINKING, and the ability to QUESTION OURSELF AND THEN EVENTUALLY GET THE ANSWERS OURSELVES, by ANY MEANS.
What I mean is, unless and untill, we are absolute clear with ourselves on our motives to blog, we can’t be successful (And even though some might be lucky as natures law goes, get successful, the success will be not long-term).
A large chunk of people do believe that, Blogging is all about writing something, posting something, put some pay per click ads along with that, and they are done with.
Its absolutely rubbish to think in this pattern, and this one can just expect failure out of this. If you think on these lines, I request you to have add a more SPECIFIC, GENUINE, REALISTIC DIMENSION to you views on Blogging, and then test them, with somebody who actually is a serious blogger. This will help a lot.
Over and above when we use the word “Blog Business” One should have considerable understanding, or at least take an effort to understand what a business is, in real. One should think like an Entrepreneur, on how one wants to build business. It’s unfortunate, that in our schooling system, this mindset is never honed, because mindset depends on the way we are trained to think, or rather we make our mind to think, and this doesn’t happen in a day. Change is very unpleasant even at personal level, and changing mindset is the toughest to do, and when it happens we are masters of our self.
There are people who keep posting, innumerable posts, in a day, on a blog and can’t get the attention of the readers, and there are bloggers around in this world who just add two posts in a week, but get considerable attention of readers. The Quality of the content is the FIRST KEY TO SUCCESS, and clubbed with other parameters like passion, persistence, vision, networking, business acumen, hard work, creativity, innovation, ability to be a learner, good observation skills and yes focus.
It all depends where we want to go as a Blogger; this is to be decided by us, the mindset will determine where we will reach, a super hit blog is not a one time game, it’s a sum of efforts taken over a period of time.
The waters of the World Wide Web are already muddy, (read people building blogs) and will be more and muddier, in time to come. This has happened due to the ease with which one can set Blogs, but very few are destined to be great blogs, and this happens as a result of hard work clubbed with other factors as mentioned.
The world likes to hear, from people who sound positive, even I do! But that doesn’t mean one should ignore the GROUND REALITIES EVEN THOUGH NEGATIVE. This is called Confrontation of Brutal Facts, and these are also necessary to find success.
Thanks for finding time to read this long post, and may you succeed in all your endeavours in life.
Have Fun & Cheers,
Nikhil.G.Deshpande,
Pune,
Nikhil0904@gmail.com,
perceivedvalue@gmail.com
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