Bloginian

Great post from The Blog Advantage .  Stop sending out links and consider creating a eBook and sending your potential followers a distraction-free landing page! The advice reminds me of one of the lessons from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad :  Anyone can make money yet developing financial literacy is the key to having success with money.  Here, anyone can make contacts/send out links via Facebook and Twitter.  To separate yourself from everyone else you have to take full advantage of the opportunity that you have to gain followers.  As opposed to sending them to your blog and overwhelming them, send them to a comfortable, distraction-free landing page full of your content!

Elephant in the Room I you are impatient, quit now.  It is the honest truth.  Building a blog is synonymous with building a business.  Similar to having a baby, the first year will be the most difficult.  The first year requires the most care and support.  Many may have been aware of this when they decided to create their blog yet there are few that actually consider this before calling it quits. The Burn Out You will burn out.  It happens to the best of us.  You will start off very excited about your net blog, and the adrenaline will lead you to write high quality posts on a consistent basis.  Pace yourself my friend.  That hard work will catch up with you and you will crash.  When you crash you probably will not have much to show for the 6 months, or so, of hard work that you put in and like many bloggers around the world, you will give up. Overcome After the burn out session, you will ask yourself what you did wrong.  Was ...