3 Common Blogging Mistakes

 3 Common Blogging Mistakes

1: Believing that it will take too long to succeed and either quitting right away or taking shortcuts that always lead to failure.

Today I hiked this trail in Colorado (See image below). I got a kick out of the name because it made me think about how bloggers believe that success will be too long to attain.

Most quit before they start because blogging seems hopeless and others take silly shortcuts that lead to failure 100% of the time, skipping the steps necessary to succeed.

Like all businesses, blogging is a marathon and absolutely not a quick sprint. You need to learn how to do it effectively, practice, develop skills and lay a strong foundation for exponential business growth.

This takes many thousands of hours over years of your life.

But if you plan to be alive for thousands of hours and years why wouldn't you invest this time in doing something that will give you a worldly life of freedom?

2: Never engaging in genuine blogger outreach and always being a stranger on the outside looking in, asking for favors, needing websites and desperately trying to get any stranger to help you succeed.

Hundreds to thousands of bloggers try to do it solo and desperately pitch strangers their business opportunity, completely wasting their time forcing their products and services on people who do not want or need what they have to offer.

Thousands of these bloggers have been in my inbox over the past 15 years of my blogging career. Most tell me that I need their service and do the equally silly thing of following up two or three times with someone who doesn't need or want what they have to offer.

Talk about a colossal waste of a blogging career; chasing people who don't want your offering is a common form of self-sabotage.

Publish detailed, targeted, long form content to attract customers and clients to you passively. Build a blogging asset that does the work for you to free yourself as a thriving blogger.

3: Asking for advice from 5 or 10 or 20 bloggers and getting completely overwhelmed and confused with these different schools of thinking.

When you walk into a classroom do you see 1 instructor or 20? 

Follow one professional blogging tips blogger for guidance to get the bulk of your blogging education. Do what they guide you to do to succeed and to avoid confusing blogging cross currents flying at you from many different directions.

By following advice from one seasoned professional you simply do what they do and thrive, gaining clarity and confidence in the process.

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