Posts Tagged ‘success’

Does it seem like there is always a “thorn” in your side?

By thorn, I mean obstacle. Pain in the rear end. Something that holds you back from what you want or need.

In life, you’ll always have these “thorns” in your “side”. It’s quite inevitable.

You see, let’s take this blog for example. I start it, it grows, it’s doing great, and “Bam!”, shoulder is broken, and my blog is neglected. Now, you may say to yourself at times like these, “It’s just me, I’m an unfortunate person. Nothing will ever go right for me.” Don’t think this way! Why?

Unforeseen Occurrence Befall us All

Yes, I just made a reference to The Bible. It’s so true. If something bad happens to you don’t think God, or someone else has it out for you, that’s just life.

Ok ok, why do I bring this up you say.

Well, when I had this shoulder problem, I was very discouraged. I thought to myself, “Everything always goes wrong! My blog starts to grow, does well and then it’s gone.

But don’t be discouraged. If you give up, like I almost did, you’ll never succeed, be it online, offline, inline, ( had to throw that in there, sorry. ) and you’ll never have a business or blog that means anything.

This is just a little word of advice to all those discouraged ones out there, that you CAN succeed, just never, ever, and I mean never give up!

In other news, I’m back! Regular content will start being pumped out starting tomorrow. So stick around, we’re gonna go places.

This post was written by Paul Piotrowski over at InspiredMoneyMaker.com which is a Blog that focuses on teaching people how to make money doing what they love. I really want to thank him for the support, guest posting for me. If you are interested in guest posting on MonkeyBlogger, email it to mark[at]monkeyblogger[dot]com

As Mark has written about on a few occasions, the Blogging community is full of “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow” Bloggers. New Blogs pop up every day, only to disappear into witness protection tomorrow.

I believe that one of the biggest reasons for that is that Blogging by nature is a medium of expression based on giving, not getting. A successful Blogger is a Blogger who gives first and gives often, without really expecting anything in return. Bloggers who have followed that formula have grown rather quickly as their readers have felt that energy from the first time they stumbled across their Blogs.

The rest of the herd who read an income report by a professional Blogger and begin drooling over the idea of “getting paid for nothing”, run out and start a Blog with the misconception that there’s a big prize waiting for them once they sign up for a free Wordpress account and they publish a couple of senseless articles. Professional Blogging is not a get-rich-quick scheme. If that’s what you’re seeking, you might want to look elsewhere.

For the rest of us who genuinely want to help people in our specific area of expertise there is a lot of potential in Blogging, but we must embrace the concept of Giving to accelerate our results.

Take this article, for example. When I heard Mark broke his clavicle, I jumped at the opportunity to help the guy out even though I don’t really know him. I stopped by his Blog one day and I liked his Mascot design and I found it quite impressive for him to be getting into this line of business at such a young age so I subscribed to his RSS feed.

If you really study Professional Bloggers, and meet some of them, you will very quickly learn that the REAL reason that they are so successful in what they do is because they are some of the most giving people you have ever met. People think that when Professional Bloggers run contests, it’s all just about drawing attention and publicity to our Blogs. It does have that effect, but in reality it’s not about that. It’s because we really do enjoy giving stuff away to people!

You want to be a successful Blogger? Try thinking from the point of view of “How can I give the most amount of value to my readers?” every day for 90 days and you’ll see how different the world looks like for you after that.

That, and also don’t forget to have fun in the process.

This post is guest blogged by Tom Sinfield from StandOutBlogger.com where he provides challenging posts that will help you increase your blogging potential. I want to thank him, it really is helping me out big time. Check out his blog, I really, honestly like it, it’s a great one. (And I’m not just saying that ) I also need more guest posters, so if your interested, shoot me an email. Thanks!

How many times have you seen a blogger bounce into the scene, claiming that he will be the next John Chow, blogs frantically for a couple of weeks and just seems to be getting some momentum – and then disappears?

I don’t know about you, but I have seen this happen all to often. People come in thinking that blogging is just easy money and when they realize that you have to work hard on it just like any other business, they quit.

I think that these new bloggers are being sold a fantasy by ‘get rich quick’ ebooks promoted by internet marketers looking to make a quick buck and other bloggers who fudge their figures to make themselves look good.

I guess what I am trying to say is that blogging is hard work. However that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t give it a go, because there is the potential to make big money blogging. But it isn’t going to happen over night – it will take time and effort and training, and mistakes, and ups and downs. Your success will depend on how much you really want to succeed blogging, because I have seen people who have a lot of head knowledge about a topic and so much potential but their blog just fizzles out. But I have also seen young everyday people, who if you asked them, had nothing special to offer – yet they had a drive within them to make something of blogging no matter what. And you know what? They are doing fantastic. Their blogs are successful. They are getting high traffic levels. They are making a good living from their blogs, and they have built themselves an influence that money cannot buy.

So let me ask you one more time.

How much do you really want to succeed in your blogging?