Blog writing is an absolute delight to many of my kith and kin out there.
Have you ever heard of it? I am sure you have.
Do you have any idea of the value of a blog?
Do you know the pros and cons of it?
Have you ever thought about blogging online?
If you want to know more on the subject, you have come to the right place fellas.
In this post, I will try my best to highlight what blogging really is and what are the benefits of it. Blogging is a big market out there. It is an advanced way to expand businesses, control information centers and create a hub for information sharing. A writer or even a common person can use it to further his hobbies. People share real-life experiences, professional opinions and a lot of people pay good money to pick a person’s brain for expertise.
The blog is a source of passive income. No doubt people are earning a lot from blogging but you should know this beforehand that the income phase is too far in the line. Building a subscriber base, creating quality content and capturing the attention of your audience is a constant struggle. You have to be vigilant and stay on point for a long time and every successful blogger work on their blog a minimum of seven to eight hours a day.
Now the beauty of blogging is that you do not need a deep understanding of website making, coding or any technical side of the internet. All you need to decide is;
1. A blogging platform such as Blogger, Wordpress etc.
2. What are you good at? What do you love to do?
3. A name for your blog and a domain name that suits you.
4. Whether you want web hosting or not?
5. A design for your need.
6. What do you want from blogging?
We are going to discuss few points on why should you start a blog?
1-It is crazy easy
Starting a blog is crazy easy. As I said before blogs can be built in no time. Platforms like Blogger, Wordpress provide ready-to-go templates. There is absolutely zero coding involved until you need to add some plugins and widgets. Even that customizing has been made easy by code-geeks who share cool widgets and snippets all the time for free.
To start a blog, all you need is an idea that can be expanded and built upon. So I say it again, you need to start a blog because it is crazy easy.
2-Ideas get you respect
The easy access to internet and blogging platforms have created a vast market of ideas and information sharing. If you something that can be toyed with and expanded, you are in green. When it comes to ideas there is no such thing as a small idea, because if you figure out your niche, you are halfway home already.
3-Blogs highlight who you are
Let’s say you are good in your field but you feel like you are under appreciated. It may be because you have less exposure, so basically you need someplace to showcase what you are selling. You need an audience. Blogs give you a chance to build your audience. Let’s say you are a writer, you can upload your writings, articles, scripts or anything you think is reader-ready. An artist can make portfolios and get a fan base in no time. So basically blogs highlight your work and give you repute.
4-Contribution to other lives
Man is a social animal. We all need inspiration from time to time. Wherever we go outside we interact and create a ripple in time that affects us and others around us. Through blogging, we can contribute what we are good at, in term inspiring and helping others around us. A little positive effort can go a long way.
5-Blog can help you to make money
Blogs are not only for growing skills or personality, but you can make it an income source only if you have enough traffic. Traffic on a blog is vital if you want to make it your source of income.
Traffic needs to linger as long as possible so for that again you need better content. Blogs can grow your skills, help you create an online home for like-minded people, and keep the boring at bay. There is always something new to share, ideas to be explored and great things to be achieved.
Enough traffic opens up a new mode of operation like Ads and embedded links that can make you money whenever a reader visits the links you recommended. Bloggers make money by blogs and they also have a sense of freedom. Being one’s own boss has its perks, isn’t it great?
6-New Day, New Prey
Blogging brings new challenges on a daily basis. To survive in an online open market is pretty tough. So every day brings you a new demon to slay. In order to survive a blogger has to keep reinventing himself. Folks! It is a jungle out there. You get to keep your prey, only if you are strong enough for it.
7-Blogger create online communities
Bloggers are easy going, hardworking and business-oriented folks. Their experiences and a strong sense of professional growth drive them to surround themselves with like-minded people. Social media growth around us is way too fast but a lot of readers still prefer blogging communities where they can pick your brain for your expertise.
A blogger if stay positive and be good to the online base, it creates a wonderful platform where people can care and share freely.
8-Give wings to your thoughts
A Blog makes it simple to share ideas to the whole world. You can make the world a better place through your blog. If you want, you can evaluate through a blog in the world. There is no age to start a blog. If someone having skills to spread ideas can start a blog. You can show up the problems of any country, class or society through a blog.
It’s the greater thing to aware people about any problems of the whole world. This thing depends on your blog readers, that is not impossible.
9-Advertise your business
Blogging is a powerful tool when it comes to business advertisement. A blog can be used to showcase your expertise, product range and highlight certain specifications so that people can find you easily and conveniently.
10 -Blogging will help you to be a better writer
When we talk about blogging, the first thing you need to understand is that you are committing to a way of life. With blogging, you have to write frequently. No matter how slow you are at first and how crappy your start is, with practice you start getting better. So there I said it, blogging will help you to be a better writer.
With your blog, you will be writing for your audience. A blogger strives to write better, which eventually help him be better.
11-Hooking your readers
Bloggers are always looking for better ideas, leading to better content, which gives them better subscriber base. They achieve this via hooking their readers for a longer time. Being good at something means you can leverage your skills to teach others what you know. Normally one’s basic audience is friends and family. A blogger uses the immediate circle to grown far and beyond.
12-Blogging is a constant input of ideas
Yep. The blogging helps you to learn new ideas related to your blog niche or others. Blogging makes for you a community of blogger. You every time learn new things in your subject area. After starting a blog, you learn new and do experiments with your blog.
The blogging is a great way where you not only teach to others but also learns more. In every step of blogging learns you something new or specific. You read other’s blog and get ideas from them, if they are better than you, you can learn from them many things to grow yourself.
13- How to hold a conversation?
Through a blog, you talk about a wide range of people. This opens a lot of possibilities for a blogger. The blogs help a writer to be able to speak openly and clearly about his ideas. The style of the writer starts to be more prominent and expressive as well.
14-Blogging boosts your confidence
Not all people are born leaders and risk takers. The process of building up a personality takes effort and time. Blog writers get more chances than an average person to go out and make a name for themselves. This edge gives a blogger confidence boost that is much needed.
With a blog of your own, you can experiment, learn and improve at your own expense. A blogger has nothing to lose, so that makes a perfect opportunity to bring you’re a game to the ring.
15- Blogging help you get over social awkwardness
Have you ever been to a social gathering where everyone is asking you, “What do you do?” and you sheepishly try to explain your work, hobbies and day-to-day activities. When you look at the conversation on your own time, you realize that you totally blew that shit up. Social awkwardness is not that uncommon when you think about it. Bloggers are much less socially awkward and it is due to the fact that they are constantly communicating with a lot of different people on daily basis.
16- A blog motivates you
When You have no work, you become lazy. There are no regulations in your life. Blogging controls you to live in disciplines. You work on time, write on time or publish on the right time to attract visitors to your blog. Nothing, the only blog can help you to control your bad hobbits. The blog makes you a responsible man who is an idol of lots of people.
17-Glass half-full
A blogger struggle with daily life issues like everyone else. What they do the? Well, most of the blogger's channel that energy and create a safe haven for other by sharing their experiences and insight on specific issues for a very specific audience. So I can right go ahead and say this, “bloggers are mostly glass-half-full folks.”
18-Money is no issue
Blogging is absolutely free, and there is no need to spend a dime on setting up your blog. Even if you want a professional blog, you can start free and move on to self-hosting. Blogs need no investment except your time of course.
19- No need for prior knowledge
Going out and starting a blog require little to no knowledge. A writer, artist, engineer, therapist or any person who belongs to any profession or a field of study can do it. There is absolutely zero requirement of prior knowledge. You just need a stable internet connection and one thing you are good at.
20-Bloggers are influencers
A blogger can assert control and create a ripple in time by motivating others and influence their lives on so many levels. Imagine reading about the success story of a professional leader and tell me you will not be inspired. We all need a nudge here and there from time to time.
21-Blogs bring you work
The bloggers are often approached for consulting gigs. People need help all the time. So if you are really good at what you do, they pay handsomely for all the help you can provide. After all, it is all about money and work, Right?
22-Its all about a happy place
A blog for its owner is his own happy place. I created my blog in hope of creating something for myself and I am not ashamed to admit that even though I don’t get as many hits I would like, I still love how it looks. I am doing something that I love and that is what matters the most.
23-Blogging provides freedom
A blog owner is free to write and share as he likes. He doesn’t have to listen to anybody except the ones who mean the most to him, his readers.
24-Blogging sharpens your observation
Well, it is obvious but I do have to mention it. When you are a blogger, you look for almost everything that is going to make difference out there. This prospect makes you more observant and in turn, you catch what most people ignore in their day-to-day life. The normal becomes more important and fascinating than it is to most people.
25-Stay in touch with friends and family
A blogger has his hands in almost every cookie-jar, so he has to be vigilant and attentive to the people around. They are his foremost reader after all. The bonding becomes more easy and coherent.
Conclusion
So, folks, I outlined almost all the possible scenarios that I can think of. So if any of this appeals to you, just go to Blogger or WordPress and start it right now. What do you have to lose? Just try it and do let me know how it goes. Cheers!
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