Don’t believe the lies! Pursuing a career as a professional blogger is not easy and it is time consuming. Are you willing and ready to work hard?
Read Blogs in Your Niche
Reading blogs in your niche is a great way to garner ideas. Seize the opportunity to learn from other professional bloggers’ writing style, which of their topics has the most comments and more.
As you read other blogs in your niche, notice the topics that are popular. Read them thoroughly and see if there is something they may have missed. Then, come up with your own topic and write better versions of the blog post you’ve read.
Enroll Into A Digital Marketing Course
Digital marketing is different from traditional marketing and it is quickly replacing traditional marketing. Soon digital marketing will be referred to as just marketing.
Your blog may have the best-crafted headlines and solidly written content, but it means nothing if your blog isn’t getting traffic. That is why digital marketing is important. With digital marketing, you learn which tools and social media networks you should use to promote your blog and how best to promote it.
Study Mind Mapping
Every professional blogger should be using mind maps. Mind maps will not only help you organize your blog topics, but they also give you a bird’s eye view of your flow of thought.
Tony Buzan made mind mapping popular, and I highly recommend you purchase his book, Mind Map Mastery: The Complete Guide to Learning and Using the Most Powerful Thinking Tool in the Universe.
If you are serious about becoming a professional blogger, I strongly encourage you to follow the advice above. A career as a professional blogger is a lot of work, but trust me, it is WORTH it!