10 Non-Techie Blogging Tips – Guest Post

This is a great guest post by Olusegun, an online entrepreneur who can be seen all over this site in the comments section contributing to the site. Olusegun, over to you;

Blogging is huge right now, as at early 2009, Technorati index indicated 133 million blogs online and about 900,000 post a day! This is January 2010. Don’t bother to do the Math just know that you have unimaginable competition. Here are a few non-techie tips for building your blog:

1. The Brand YOU

In the blogosphere, you have to work on building your most important brand which is YOU – your blog is just an extension of you. What do want to be known for? Regardless of it,you want to brand your name or blog as one to reckon with in your niche. Your focus must be laser sharp on becoming someone that can be trusted and respected for genuine value adding content. You have to build your credibility and carefully consider what gets published on your blog. Any error can be more devastating than you thought possible as news spread like wildfire in this sphere.

2. Build Trust by Building a Relationship

You must have been hearing this lately. Well, here it is one more time. Invest time in building trust with your readers and visitors. Let your major aim be building an intimate relationship – with the new FTC rules, relationship marketing is the future if you plan to earn from your blogs now or later. The sales and profits will follow organically as a reward from your readers for adding value to their lives.

3. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give in.

Winston Churchill was asked to give a speech to a group of boys in Harrow school on October 29, 1941, all he said was ““Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, give in. Never give in. Never give in. Never give in.” and then he sat down and it has been referred to as one of the greatest speeches ever given in history (Some folks said he said a lot more but you get the point). Quitters never win. As a blogger, let your mind be rest assured that giving up is not an option when the results you desire do not show up on time. Success is closest at the point of giving up. Just hanging in there does a long of wonders.

4. Work Hard Smartly

A lot of people want to have everything readymade for them – PLR articles, free unmodified themes. Well, fine but just know those that will never result in unusual success as long as there is someone out there spoon feeding you or you’re paying for ready-made products or solution – Your blog will always be lagging behind if you do not work hard smart. Your content must be sticky and unique; people must know you’re distinct from bloggers. If you understand this principle of hard smart work, you can make yourself very successful as a blogger faster.

5. Make the most of your blog

Juggling a number of projects makes us ineffective generally since our focus is divided. If you a lone ranger newbie blogger or the OOO – Only Operating Officer, then it is better to focus on one major niche blog and maximize its potential. Make your blog sociable, being careful not to overload it with unnecessary features. Use the right keywords. Submit articles to directories. Maximize SEO plugins. Get more baclinks by linking to other blogs. Focus on making your blog a source of value in your niche. Make your blog visible. Submit your blog to blog directories. If you are a beginner nothing beats commenting on other blog and writing guest posts.

6. Run your Blog like a Business

Blogging is an industry now and industries are made up of businesses and businesses cease to exist if they stop creating value. A successful blogger sees his blog as being more than an online journal. First of all, your blog must be run with the vision of creating a business – even if your main focus is not to make money from it initially. You a need to see your blog as something John Reese coined a virtual real estate (VRE). See it as a business asset – one that has to be nurtured to grow in value.

Why would you invest so much time into sometime that will bring no financial Return On Time Invested?

7. Boldly Take Calculated Risks

The biggest risk in life is not to take one. In blogging as in life, to get anywhere, you must take risks – calculated risks. For instance, writing a more successful blogger for a favour most of the time will not get you anywhere; in fact you will end up discouraged. These guys get thousand of requests from people seeking to use them as stepping stones; that will not work – and you foolishly risk being “bookmarked” as a gold digger. You need to give before you can get especially if you are a minion and you seek the attention of a whale. (Do you really need that anyway? I can bet you don’t) Make friends with other bloggers, right positive things about them. Send traffic to their blogs and let them know about it. By doing these, you risk not getting the response you want and if every move you make fails, at least your guts and confidence will have been developed. Learn fast from your mistakes and don’t let them make you gun shy.

8. Your Readers make you.

Treat your readers well – meet their needs for free, respect them, nurture them, reply them back (especially the ones that add valuable comment to your blog) and they will return the gesture in a financially rewarding way usually later. If you do not sow, you will not reap. The great thing about sowing is that you always reap a much greater return than you sow. Besides, without your readers, of what use is your blog?

9. Contract Out/ Outsource

A Jack of all trades is too stupid to outsource. As your blog develops, the harder it will be to keep up with its growth and the tasks that accompany it. Learn to delegate or outsource early before your blog grows too big and becomes too big to handle. Be mentally repaired to hire some staff in future. In fact, guest blogging is somehow related to outsourcing and it is always a win-win situation.

10. Trust You

When you have an idea or a gut feeling or something is prompting you from within, then heed to it. Give it a chance. It might just be the key to your big blogger break. Learn to trust yourself more and more. When you get a new idea on how to make your blog more successful, try it out. Your intuition is designed to guide you. Do not neglect it dear blogger.

All the very best

photo credit: B Rosen

Olusegun Adedokun is an entrepreneur from Nigeria. He is now building internet-earner.com an almost 2 month old blog as at the time of this writing. He believes “One Ageless Universal Strategy; Countless Marketing Tactics” is what will make a successful online business.

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