Wednesday 2 September 2009

Strategies of succesful professinal bloggers

To become a successful professional blogger you need to spend time looking at what the experts already do and then model yourself on them. This doesn't mean you copy what they do but you build your own blog business, image and brand by following their strategies. This article outlines 10 key strategies that all successful professional bloggers will use.

This is very obvious but to become a professional blogger you will need a blog, but not just any blog, you need to create an easy to read, easy to navigate, optimized for the search engines blog. You will be spending time writing great content and it will all be a waste of time if no one can find you so take a look at your blog and begin to look for ways that you can get it to work better.

Here are the seven strategies of successful bloggers:

Becoming successful is all about mindset and the need to focus on staying motivated to succeed with a desire to achieve the goals they set. A professional blogger will have a vision of how their business will benefit their lifestyle and they will work towards achieving that vision, never giving up, especially when life becomes challenging.

They will see their blog as a business and understand the importance of planning ahead, knowing their target market, creating systems and working towards set goals and targets based upon where they want their business to take them.

Writing is important if you are to become a successful blogger. Not only watching for spell mistakes and checking grammar but also how you use words to suit your target market. Whether you use comedy in your writing, write with a professional tone or seek to be informal and easygoing. You need to write on a regular basis. It is recommended that if your blog is completely new that you blog every single day for the first four to six months to help yourself gain a presence in the search engines. It is my belief that during this time you shouldn't even think about how to make money blogging but should focus only on providing valuable content.

You need to get paid for blogging if you are going to become a professional blogger. After all those months of blogging valuable content you now need to think about earning an income either as a writer for other blogs or by monetizing your blog.

A professional blogger will understand the importance of building a list of subscribers through their blog. They will write free reports, eBooks or at least an ezine. Provide free software or find some way to give in order to build their subscriber base.

Leverage all the tools that are available, which means not only writing blog posts but also using audio and video, perhaps running teleseminars, being active on social networks and always staying on top of what is current in their own blogging niche in general but also in the blogging world in particular.

Build community. By authentically sharing about your life, your business, your niche, and/or your passion you are able to help people to achieve their goals. Many gurus have expressed the importance of getting what you want by helping others get it first and that will be a strong motivation for the professional blogger.

Becoming a successful blogger really is not difficult. It is all about knowing how to leverage the written word. The key to financial leverage is to get your money working for you. The key to leveraging the written word is to ensure you get the biggest impact from whatever you write across a worldwide audience.

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