Problogging Success

If you are a blogger, you usually get a lot of "blocks". Blocks are nothing but times when you get stuck at something - being unable to proceed further.

It is like hitting a brick wall; not knowing how to proceed.

One of the most popular blocks that hits every blogger is the writers block. Well, what is it?

Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work.

It is when you are unable to put a word on the screen when you really need to be cranking out content. Most bloggers start and end with starring the blank screen when they encounter writers block.

Other kinds of "blocks" include.... well, un-motivated days. When you have no sales, not enough comments, when your blogging is just "all work and no pay" - you simply feel blocked. Now, lets put all those blocks … [Read more...]

Compelling content has to be more than just interesting or informative. It has to emotionally engage with your readers. Otherwise, it falls flat, and readers have no reason to keep coming back again and again.

Creating content that emotionally engages your readers will ensure greater interaction with your readers, including comments, social media shares and likes, and opt-in e-mail subscriptions. All of these increase your ability to connect with readers on a long-term basis, promoting your brand and your products and services as needed.

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Blogging is tough.

No I'm not discouraging you. But hey, let's face it.

Just be honest to yourself and answer this question:

Haven't you felt at least once in your blogging career that writing blog posts is one of the most boring tasks?

Hey I'll shut my ears; answer the question to yourself!

As a blogger it becomes a necessity to create content on a regular basis.

You need to consistently produce high quality content, otherwise your competition is waiting at your door step to eat you up.

And as a consequence, content creation becomes somewhat like a race - something you need to keep doing otherwise someone else is gonna overtake you.

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Muscle failure. On the ski team in college, it was our coach's favorite phrase. We didn't do sets, laps, runs — we trained until we had muscle failure, the point at which our bodies literally collapsed from sheer exhaustion.

It's been a while since I've had muscle failure, but I have since encountered another kind of exhaustion, familiar to all bloggers, that is equally crippling: content exhaustion.

Bloggers will know what I mean. That point at which you feel that you have complete exhausted all your mental faculties and are completely incapable of producing even one more keyword, much less another paragraph of quality content.

To call it a grind would be an understatement.

Especially after long periods of productivity, blogging can be creatively … [Read more...]