How Does A Newbie Blogger Start?
Derek Cladek on July 15th, 2009
You have to start somewhere with blogging, but where do you start? How do you start blogging if you don’t know what to write about? Whether you want to make money from your blog in the near future or if its just a hobby, you have to start somewhere. I was once told that sometimes you must ‘fake it until you make it‘. Whether you want to become a Pro Blogger one day you have to start somewhere. Most of the time you have not the skills, the knowledge or even the money to become a successful blogger. That is why faking it until you make it can be your best friend.
Of course I am not saying to be a fake blogger, you just have to know that you must start somewhere. Write about what make you live, what are you passionate about, share life stories and experiences that have gotten you through hard times. With your knowledge you can help others and also gain knowledge. Relate to your audience and write about what they have questions about, ask questions and then give them answers. A great writer that does this is Dave Taylor at AskDaveTaylor.com. He started off by asking people to send him questions and all he does is research the answer, gets them the information they are trying to find and he makes good money doing it! How do I know? Well I actually met Dave Taylor in Seattle once for lunch.
Also piggy backing off of other successful bloggers and even following their lead can be something that gets you by. What are professional bloggers such as John Chow Dot Com or Jonathan Volk writing about? Follow their lead and learn from them. The reason why some of these people blog is because they want to teach you how to make money online and because you are reading their blogs and following them, you are making them loads of money.
I believe in educating yourself and gaining knowledge that will help you become the best blogger on the net. I personally just signed up for a blogging course that is 6 months long and promises to teach me what I need to know about becoming a successful blogger. It’s so much better than going to some college to learn how to get a JOB and its so much CHEAPER! As long as you start somewhere you can’t really go wrong. Of course you will mess up and have tons of mistakes but with a common goal in mind of making this is a business, one day the traffic will start and by then you should have learned enough to make it a business.
