This is the eleventh article in the series Blogging 101 series.
Hopefully you have taken the leap into blogging. If you followed our steps for this, you have done a lot of work in setting up the site, formatting what you will talk about, and put hope into this dream. After a couple of months, it will be time to reassess how it has gone.
After a few months of writing articles for your website, there are a couple of things that could happen. You may have done such a great job of networking, marketing, and writing content that you struck gold in your blog. Maybe you put just as much hard work as that idea, but you are only bringing in a couple of hundred people. Maybe you are discouraged or feel that you now do not have enough time.
Whatever your experience is, be it that you are discouraged now or encouraged by the process, we wanted to share a few things with you as you are in your first few months of blogging.
- Stay The Course
The process is hard and in the beginning, the reward is small. Living in a microwave and iPhone world, we expect instant gratification, but we need to realize that this takes time. We need to win the right to be heard, show that we are experts in what we have to say, and be consistent to show that we can be trusted. Stay the course and keep writing quality articles for your site, plugging it at events, and pushing for success. It may be several more months before you get there. - Look At The Whole Picture
We have found that the average blogger will stare at their statistics. It does not matter if they are doing this for business or as a hobby. They can say that the number of views a day does not matter, but they will still be checking at least once a day to see how it is going, if only for the very reason of knowing what articles are a success. Over the course of four or six months, it can seem like there has been no growth, but you need to recognize that you are looking at the stats everyday. Step back and look at the whole picture. What were your stats the first month of blogging? How much growth has there been so far? If you are growing more than 50% a month, you are doing exceptional. Be encouraged that there is growth and you are succeeding. - Continue To Interact With Like-Minded Bloggers
One common process we have found in new bloggers is that they forget about the parts of blogging that do not bring viewers in. There is so much energy that needs to be put into marketing and writing articles, that the priorities of continued learning and networking get pushed to the side. Yet, it is this networking and continued learning that are the foundation for constant growth for your website. It prevents your articles from getting stale, brings in new audiences, and challenges you as a blogger. Do not neglect some of the most vital parts about blogging. - Evaluate If This Is Worth It
Maybe the biggest disappointment for people is that they did not know how much work and time it was going to take. When they were putting together their blogging and social media strategies, they undervalued how much time it would take. As they were thinking about what to write, they figured they could write months about a subject and then realized that it would honestly only last a couple of weeks. Regardless of what it is that killed your passion, some people as the simple question, “Is it worth it anymore?” They do not want what they have done already to be a waste, but they just cannot see themselves pushing on anymore. My encouragement is to start this whole process over again. Look at these articles and adjust what you have been doing. May you should only be posting an article a week and start with that or you could add another person onto the blogging schedule to help with the workload. Don’t simply give up, but evaluate and reassess if this is for you.
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