Posts Tagged “personality”

Blogging about yourself is easy. It encourages you to give personal opinions and open up about your feelings. Unfortunately, this means less time spent talking about facts that you know for certain, or that are useful for the readers. Furthermore, it can easily detract from your sense of authority. There’s a reason scientific papers don’t start out with “In my opinion…”

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There’s a lot of different styles that are employed in blogging. Here are five that I have found to be pretty common. They are not mutually exclusive of course, so you’ll find that the themes run together in many highly successful blogs. If you want a highly successful blog, it can’t hurt to imitate them!

  1. Niche marketing. These are sites deliberately constructed to target a niche and sell to it. It can be gardening, weight loss, whatever. Raising red worms is an example of a niche that I am interested in.

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I was reading a blog post by Andrew Pavelski entitled 10 Reasons Why People Don’t Make Money Online. Here is my quick summary of each point:

  1. Giving up too soon

    Most blogs across the net are abandoned, non-updated, and not making any money online. Instead of making money, they are just pieces of internet debris, collecting dust and never being visited. It’s hard to be certain whether their blog had enough potential in other respects, of course. But there’s no more certain way to fail than to quit when you’re not ahead.

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