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There are actually thousands of blog tips roaming around the big big big blogosphere today, and it’s really hard to cope up, I can’t even cope up to 50 blogs in my feed reader.
That inspired me to invent something different. Something that is very straight to the point. Something that when you read it, you’ll learn something.
What could be easier than that other than learning from the experts, the big daddies?!
Heck, it’s a win win situation, we learn from them and they learn from us, because giving your best tip isn’t that easy as you think. You need to stand on it till the end.
So, please welcome our first blogger to give his best blog tip EVER, Nate Whitehill of natewhitehill dot com.
Nate has been blogging for 9 months and currently maintaining 700 feed readers daily. He blogs about business, entrepreneurship and also blogging.
His Best Blog Tip Ever:
My number one tip for new bloggers is to clearly identify the purpose and focus of their blog. For many people here, the purpose is to make money online. For others, the purpose is to market their business or services. And for some people, their purpose is only to meet and share information with other individuals.
The reason that it is so important to identify your blog’s purpose and focus is simple: one of the main reasons most blogs fail or die is because there is no focus. In other words, many blogs are trying to do too much or pretend they are something that they are not.
For example, the focus for my blog, natewhitehill.com, is to share my business experience with other entrepreneurs. I am not trying to monetize my blog or tell people that I will show them how to make money online. At the same time, it certainly is not just a collection of my personal ramblings. Like I said, the focus is business with an emphasis on using blogging as a marketing tool.
My purpose is to network myself with other like minded individuals and also chronicle the progress of my business development. Sometimes I talk about my business, but most of the time I post articles only with the hopes of providing useful information to other people.
So, remember, before you start blogging, or if you already have started, clearly identify (and write down, if you have to) the purpose and focus of your blog.
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That’s it, what an excellent tip from Nate! I would like to personally thank you for being the first blogger to participate.
This series will go on and on until we finish all the great bloggers out there (I think we won’t. There could be one sprouting the next day and so on and I’ll do this only once per week) and remember,these tips are exclusively given for this series.
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Hey Carl, thanks for having me as your first guest blog tip guy. :) Congrats on your success so far - it is only up from here!
No prob Nate, I’m the one that should say thanks to you! Anyway, great tip and good luck
The tip is utterly quite simple and direct. There really are a lot who fail because they blog about something they don’t do best.
Imagine, a lot has been blogging about “make money online” but only a real few are good at it. If I am a make money online reader, why would I read a blog from someone who’s not good at it? Well unless he/she do something about it. I’d rather read those blogs who are already successful at it since they will surely give better advice.
exactly, why would I read a blog from a blogger who doesn’t really focus on the subject matter. I’d rather read those blogs by people who are proven good at the topic.
another advantage of being focus on your blogging, you reach your target market effectively.
What’s with all the guest posts? No offense, but I came here to see how Carl Ocab teaches us how to make money online.
Dang! Sorry for that Casey, I hope you understand that we have school tests going on. But no more worries, this just happens maybe once a month.
Though, the guest posting has now ended. I’ll be the one to take place again.
Thanks
I totally understand your struggle. School just started for me too and it’s really hectic to go to school all day, do homework, and still find time to work online!
I’m appreciated as Nate remind few things that I must have a focus before blogging. sometimes, I do lose focus especially when I try to write something about my company’s blog and don’t know what to write and start to write something about making money online sort of thing. well, i just couldn’t help it. I write because i was told to frequently update my post.
well, that sucks. It doesn’t work like that. anyway, thanks for your reminder Nat,
Nice choice, Nate has provided some excellent advice on blogging over the past few months. That quote is crucially important to all bloggers. :)