One of the greatest misconceptions among those attempting to build a business is that you need to work hard in it, rather than work hard on it.
What's the difference? If you're working in your business, you're only an employee with limited potential, even though you own it; if you're working on your business, the sky's the limit, and you'll spend your time to do the right things to make it grow and flourish.
This is no different with a blog. Here's how you do it, even if you want to make a living with a free blogger blog.
Without exception, anyone starting off blogging to make money will find themselves thinking they're writers. Those with this mentality have the journalist mentality, and you know what that is bringing them now, and has been for some time.
Read almost any article on how you make money blogging and they'll always tell you to write quality content.
Sounds good and right doesn't it? But in reality, as far as making money with a blog, it's completely false advise.
The reason why you've heard this said over and over again is because all these people do is read what another 'writer' has read somewhere else, and simply repeat it. Usually the source goes back to a so-called A-lister.
Journalists behave this way because that's their nature. In truth, they're regurgitators of existing information or events, and they rewrite it with their own words and/or interpretations. Where they struggle and have trouble is discerning if the information is accurate, unless they're specialists in a field, which very few are.
The first step in financially profitable blogging success therefore is to forget about being a blogger, i.e. writer.
You writers who think you want readers won't believe this, but stick with me and you'll see why.
What's the difference? If you're working in your business, you're only an employee with limited potential, even though you own it; if you're working on your business, the sky's the limit, and you'll spend your time to do the right things to make it grow and flourish.
This is no different with a blog. Here's how you do it, even if you want to make a living with a free blogger blog.
Without exception, anyone starting off blogging to make money will find themselves thinking they're writers. Those with this mentality have the journalist mentality, and you know what that is bringing them now, and has been for some time.
Read almost any article on how you make money blogging and they'll always tell you to write quality content.
Sounds good and right doesn't it? But in reality, as far as making money with a blog, it's completely false advise.
The reason why you've heard this said over and over again is because all these people do is read what another 'writer' has read somewhere else, and simply repeat it. Usually the source goes back to a so-called A-lister.
Journalists behave this way because that's their nature. In truth, they're regurgitators of existing information or events, and they rewrite it with their own words and/or interpretations. Where they struggle and have trouble is discerning if the information is accurate, unless they're specialists in a field, which very few are.
The first step in financially profitable blogging success therefore is to forget about being a blogger, i.e. writer.
You writers who think you want readers won't believe this, but stick with me and you'll see why.
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