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Types of Bloggers
Blogs! Blogs! Blogs! Everyone is talking about them. Every media station or platform seems to follow the trendiest blogs. Even analysts get a large portion of their data or insight from blog reports. There must be something pretty special about these things. What’s even more interesting, everybody seems to be blogging these days! Well, maybe not everyone but almost everyone with a laptop and a voice.
The thing is, people, relate to bloggers because many give a personal perspective on their topic. It’s pretty cool because almost every genre has a blog following. Food blogs, travel blogs, fashion blogs, medical blogs and so many more are among the many in existence. If you’re in an industry or business and don’t have a blog, you’re missing out on some of the biggest opportunities and possibly clients in your industry.
Blogging Basics
Bloggers are not only business building professionals. Many of us are simply people with something important to share or discuss with other like individuals. Everyone doesn’t blog for the same reason. Whatever your reason, you should feel invigorated about the chance to share your insight or platform with others. What are you gaining from your blog? Is it personal gratification, supplementary income, industry contribution or something different? Bloggers dominate a significant portion of content that individuals read daily. People rely on bloggers to keep them up to date on the newest trends, best tasting foods, new music, celebrity gossip, parenting tips, and the list goes on. There are some bloggers who had no idea they were blogging until they were deep into the game. You’re wondering how that could possibly happen, right? Let’s see what everyone is blogging about. Keep reading.
Incidental Bloggers
I’m sure you’ve encountered a life-altering event or traumatic occurrence in life that changed you forever. No matter how hard you tried or how much time had passed, you just couldn’t talk to anyone about what had happened. The only outlet you could trust was between you and a pen or laptop. You started to express your frustrations, anger or sadness through words and before you knew it, you were blogging. Sharing small excerpts from your writing on social media was how it started. People begin to respond and relate to your circumstances. You honestly had no idea that so many others had experienced situations similar to yours. As time passed, people begin to look to you to share more about your story. You became an overnight inspiration to others through no intent of your own. In fact, you were seeking an emotional outlet and ended up being an incidental power source for others. Mom, you are now a blogger! That’s right. Everyone clings to your words and an entire community of like individuals eagerly await your next post.
Business Bloggers
As an entrepreneur, you constantly seek ways to grow your business. Marketing experts suggest that all businesses, especially small businesses should blog. This is how you stumbled upon life as a blogger and it’s been a straight and narrow path since you started. Businesses build success and increased clientele through blogs. People rely on certain businesses to give them insightful information about things going on or changing in the industry. As a business owner, talk to your clients to find out what topics interest them, what questions they have and what motivates them. Take their answers and blog about them. This adds a personal touch to your business and helps to depict the personality behind the CEO or company owner. Blogs help to generate more traffic to your business websites and could potentially increase your revenue.
Travel Bloggers
The travel industry has become quite lucrative. There is a rise in the number of independent travel agents and not to mention, families that travel. This also means that more and more people are hitting the road, friendly skies, ocean waves or train tracks to reach their destinations. What’s one of the first things people do when they travel? Snap that selfie to say so long and post it to social media. Some people post pics of every event, food spot and hotel they visit. Eventually, a simple trip has become a travel blog. Frequent travelers who like to share their journey are often coined as travel bloggers. They give an up-close look at other cities, states and countries are like. Many people rely on the information and pictures of travel bloggers to choose their vacation spots.
Wedding Bloggers
Décor, flowers, colors, bridal gowns, grooms attire, and everything wedding is on your list of favorite things to do. This leads you to one of the most exciting journeys of all, wedding blogging. Brides, planners, and consultants turn to blogs to get their ideas and inspiration. It’s an exciting and rewarding blogging opportunity. Social media, brides and wedding sites are constantly seeking info regarding the biggest wedding trends of each year. Wedding bloggers provide this information from a neutral place. They update their blogs with the best pictures, centerpiece ideas and much more. It’s the passion for weddings or happily ever after that inspires most wedding bloggers.
So, there you have it. People are blogging about almost any topic imaginable these days. The best part of it all is that others are reading it and they want more! Blog about what makes you happy. It’s even okay to blog about the sad points in your life. Blogging can be a career, therapy, a passion or just something to do in your spare time. But most importantly, it should be rewarding and give you a feeling of excitement.
What do you like to blog about?
This article was originally posted on Mom Marketing Coach.com
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Moms Finding Success as a Blogger
To clear the smoke screen before it develops, there’s no other way to be a mom than doing it full-time. It’s what we eat, breathe, sleep and most of all, it’s what we love. There are other areas in life that bring us fulfillment and perhaps helps us to become even better mothers.
Most mommy bloggers have found this to be a tool of emotional, personal and professional completion. The benefits can be small or enormous, but for most, it is somewhat rewarding. A celebratory moment for many bloggers is the moment they discover their passion can actually become a successful career that doesn’t take them away from their children, family, and other important life issues at the most critical times.
The Beginning
Think back to the days when blogging was just a thought or a desire you had but were afraid to go after. Remember the times when you were only reading the blogs of others wondering how they managed to pull it all together. Oh, what’s that? This is you right now, at this very moment? Well, guess what? You’re at the peak of your success as a blogger.
The fear that you feel in the pit of your stomach is the fuel that will cause you to pour every ounce of your creativity, personality, and experience into your blog. You are building your blog based on that one thing or things that you are passionate about. You will base your posts, research, and videos on experience, relationships, failures, and successes. People will respond to your blog based on the effort and compassion you put into it. As passionately as you read the blogs of others, you must pour into your own. You become a successful blogger when you’re not only blogging for others but to fulfill your very own desire to get things done.
Let’s take an up-close look at a few ways to grow your blog into a full-time success.
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Time Management
Let’s begin by removing the false concept that to be successful as a blogger, you must work at it 24 hours per day! Doctors, teachers, lawyers, military personnel and many others are successful, and they have personal lives that reflect that success. It is crucial to managing your time effectively as a blogger. Make schedules and stick to them. Coordinate calendars for kid’s school, extracurricular activities, social gatherings, family time and mother. If it must be done, it needs to be added to the calendar. Designate specific hours of the day that are dedicated to efforts toward your blog. It doesn’t have to be the same hours each day or the same number. It is wise to set a goal of hours per week, allocate those hours and work to achieve it.
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Realize the Consequences
This is one of the most important steps to becoming a successful blogger. Create boundaries for yourself and most importantly, for others. NEVER allow anyone to downplay the importance of your commitment as a blogger, especially if this is your career. Everyone reads blogs, but not everyone appreciates the work that goes into them. During those preselected hours of research, posting or reviewing, do not let others convince you to put it off until later. Most importantly, you must advocate for your position harder than anyone else. It’s easy for your friend to run out for lunch and ask you to join her for an hour, but if it’s not your lunch hour, it simply won’t work! The end result could easily be you postponing your blog contribution time to later regret it because you’re behind schedule. Your friend will eagerly meet you during her lunch hour but will return to work on time, because she knows the consequences of failing to do so. As a blogger, realize there are consequences for your actions also.
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Create Quality Content
One of the biggest mistakes you can make is falling victim to the click-bait trap. You begin to lose yourself and everything that motivated you to start blogging in the first place. There is a load of viral content out there and it seems everyone is reading it. Well, you’re right! People do read it, but they recognize it for what it is, viral. It spreads quickly, has no valuable substance and eventually fades away. As a mom blogger with valuable insight and information that others want and need to hear, create quality content. Use valuable sources and always accredit those sources for their contribution. Take tips from other bloggers who have grown successful over the years.
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Expand Your Product Line
Blogging is not a one-way street. There are many avenues that lead to many places in the world of blogging. Professional services, products, crafts and much more can become a part of your blog. This is a major part of growing the following of your blog. It requires strategy and marketing concept but can be done effectively. This is another step in the process of success that many bloggers discover as they grow. It doesn’t matter at what rate you grow, the point is to grow consistently.
As a mom and a blogger, I know and understand the challenges that present themselves. I know how easy it is to give into anxiety and fear of not gaining immediate success. Most importantly, I also know how easy it is to turn all those fears and anxieties into the ammunition you need to help your blog grow in the direction you would like to see. There are no overnight success stories to be told and no magic potion to help you succeed. But there is a process to your success as a blogger and a full-time mom, and I’m excited to help you grow into your best years as a blogger!
This article was originally posted on Mom Marketing Coach.com May 2018
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