This article is guested post by Mohammad Arshad.
Notes : I’ve been writing about “7 Reasons Why A Blogger Quit Blogging” yesterday, and today Mohammad Arshad share with us about “5 Reason Why You Failed In Blogging”, take few minutes to read it.
In this Guest post I’m gonna tell you why you have been failing in Blogging till now. You all might be knowing at least a couple of bloggers who do a living online. What makes them succeed when you haven’t made a penny out of it? The truth is very simple. You were just missing a few points regarding Blogging. I think you all know that sometimes simple things make bigger impact. And this is what you have been missing. Just Reading and following professional Bloggers is not sufficient [ in fact not good at all ] to succeed in Blogging. This is why I have a compiled a short list specifying 5 Reasons why you are still failing in Blogging as a career :
1) Because you were constantly thinking about great ideas and you were constantly dreaming about becoming like Problogger but never took ACTION! In short you were not an ACTION-TAKER. Sometimes you should just stop thinking and do what you thought the earlier day. Else you will be thinking all those ideas without ever knowing if they would work or not.
2) You were afraid you will fail.
3) You never kept in mind that most bloggers failed again and again until one day it clicked for them. Do you think all those biggies earned the name they have now since the first day? Not at all!
4) You did not know what you are capable of? If you are thinking of starting a blog like Problogger then think again and again. Especially if you have just been blogging for a few months and never yet had success in making money online then you should consider this seriously. Because it is really really hard to develop one. There are very high possibilities that you will fail in getting decent traffic or subscribers. And failure will surely make you quit blogging. So decide if you really are capable of doing things and then start doing them.
COOL TIP : Do you want to start a successful blog that could go viral like Darren Rowse? Then you can start a make money online blog with all those screenshots of your earnings from different ad networks and affiliates – I’m very sure it would have tremendous success and you would rapidly develop a huge subscriber base.
5) You got into affiliates without knowing much – affiliates are the best way to make serious money but i strongly believe that generating nice income through affiliates would need you to invest some money. I’m not saying that ALL people who make money through affiliates invest money but the process becomes easier and less tiresome if you do spend money [like you could try out the PPC campaigns and experiment more if you are ready to spend money].
So don’t just stop with reading blogs about Make money online and blogging-related Blogs but try everything for yourself now!! There are very high possibilities that you could set a new trend in blogging rather than following the trends introduced by probloggers. Good Luck!
About Mohammad Arshad :
I am Mohammad Arshad living in India pursuing my Engineering degree. I have enormous passion for Blogging, SEO, Web 2.0, Adobe AIR , Ajax and jQuery. I would be glad if you make a visit to my blog and do a little read there. I’m sure you will be a little impressed.
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Now this is something that is really sensible. I really thought quitting (in the previous post) is absurd (although true). But failing is the real deal. And of course, the blame would still trace back to you. If one is not aware of these things, then he will really fail in the end.
“You were afraid you will fail.”
- In engaging into business, one should be a risk-taker. You should never fear anything and should have an open-mind, for matters that need decisions and rethinking. This is what I learned from studying business management long ago. And it really helped me. Just sharing. Happy blogging… ^_^
May be ” Layzy “. Very cool post. Thanks!
I agree with you. we need action to success. Only time can prove it =)
yeah. negative thinking will only lead to the failures. we should motivate ourselves and try again and again.
and the most important thing is, do the thing that you love.
You are absolutely right Melanie.Fear is what makes us cling onto our day jobs when so many opportunities exist for making money .
@blinkky,
Yea, don’t just plan but action as well. Many people fail because of no action, action and work hard, you’ll see the result in coming few days.
@alone,
We’ll be more comfortable to do the thing that we love instead of writing something that we don’t like. Blogging can be considered as a relaxing and fantastic activity, just enjoy doing it and you’ll be success in some days.
you are absolutely right, but a lot of factors causes people to fear sometimes. some people can’t just see themselves keeping up.
i so much agree with you but at times it could be laziness
many people failed. Why? Because they lazy. It simple.
Good tips Mohammad. You’re right a lot of us including me waste a lot of time doing too many things which don’t add value to your business. I like the motto of Nike ‘Just do it’. It’s through doing that sees things happen. You’re also spot on about be prepared to spend some money. Not necessarily PPC other things like a good ebook does a lot of help too.
Peter Lee
I will agree with other commentators that Taking action, “just do it”, Not being lazy will put you in position to succeed!