I'm sharing all my top tips for starting a blog so if you're new to my blog you might not know that I'm actually a full-time blogger I just didn't YouTube for fun on the side but because I've been blogging for so long coming up nine and a half years of blogging.
I get so many questions about how to start a blog and I try to remind people that I started my blog in 2008 and things were a little bit different back then but there's still some stuff that I have learned over the years that would be helpful for starting a blog right now okay so my first tip it's gonna sound
So dumb when I say it but I hope you just hear me out on this and that is to just start if you want to get a blog off the ground the best thing and the only thing that you can really do is to just get going I know a lot of people like want things to be just right and just perfect.
but the reality is that you need to get going to get going and you're gonna learn things along the way and the only way to get started is to actually sit down and just go for it don't worry about things being perfect frankly there's going to be no one reading your blog at the beginning
which is amazing because that means you have a lot of time to just sort through and work out the details and really just get in the habit of writing it I think I see a lot of people starting blogs and the biggest thing that I see happening over and over again is that they get super excited the first two weeks and then they lose steam and they can't keep it up.
and by not putting a lot of pressure on yourself at the beginning for things to be perfect that's gonna help you just sit down and just get in that habit of writing your blog maybe once a week twice a week three times a week whatever you decide is the right amount for you people always ask me okay well I want to start a blog what should I do and I really do just respond you just have to start you know figure out what platformyou want to be on it doesn't mean you have to stick with that forever
you can always transfer a move down the road I started my blog bloggers which is a free platform through Google and I was on there from a seven and a half years and then I ultimately switched to WordPress but.WordPress isn't free so that might not
be the best option for you but look into Wix Squarespace tumblr blogger WordPress anyway pick a platform and just sit down and start pouring your heart out okay
so the second tip that I have is that everyone should go into blogging with the right intention you know I think when you start anything in life you should try to sit down and figure out like why you're doing this and what you want your end goals to be I think a lot of people look at bloggers or instagramers of youtubers or whomever and say oh that's what I want to do they get to travel they get to work from home
they get all this free stuff they get to work with all these amazing companies and yes it's incredible and that's such a blessing and I'm so fortunate and grateful that I get to do that but the number of bloggers who actually hit that level it's so small and a lot of the people that you're seeing who are experiencing that level have been doing this for so many years and that means that for years and years beforehand none of that was actually coming their way
So if you're starting with that is your intention you're probably going to get frustrated and feel down on yourself for not hitting those goals when in reality it's just like a long-term game I think when you set your intention to say I want to start a blog because I want to have a creative outlet.
That's why I started my blog in the first place or you want to start an online portfolio of all your photographs or you want to place with all your writing samples so that you can share that with other people or maybe it's just for your own self and no one's gonna see it so just start with an intention that will lead
You to success what I recommend saying is that this I
just something that you want to enjoy it and explore and no matter what happens and what opportunities come down the line as long as you're always enjoying
the writing process or photographing or anything to do with blogging as long as you're enjoying it you're actually successful and you won't feel frustrated
If you don't become a full-time blogger in a month or six months or a year I didn't start full-time blogging until I had done it for I think five years five or six years and I never intended on becoming a full-time blogger so that's just kind of like a cherry on the cake I've just always enjoyed the process of blogging regardless of whether I'm getting paid for it or sponsored or free stuff or traveling I've just always loved blogging even without all those thingsand I've always felt successful becauseof that once you start blogging
One of the things that I struggle with and that I hear a lot of other people struggling with is that you might have a hard time coming up with things to write about I always say you know come up with what your niche is gonna be and what you'regoing to be blogging about try to keep it narrow so that you have a specific take on something and that people know when they come to your blog that that's what you're going to be talking about but also broad enough so that you still have things to talk about over time you don't want to keep things super specific where after blogging for six weeks.
You've just completely exhausted the list of things to blog about but you also don't want to be so broad that you could blog about absolutely anything and your readers are gonna be so confused when they come to your blog because they don't really get what you're about so I always recommend that when you're getting your blog off the ground to sit down and try to come up with 50 blog posts ideas if you're starting a successful blog you're going to have more than 50 blog posts over time but I feel like that 50 number is such a sweet spot of knowing that you have tons of stuff to write about and if you can get to 50 you can get to 100 you can get to 500 and you can get to a thousand
But if you're writing that list of things and this by the way is just a list of topics it's not that you're actually going to sit down and write those 50 posts all at once you're just coming up with ideas if you get to number 25 and you realize that you really have exhausted that list maybe your blog is a little too narrow and you need to broaden the horizon just a little bit so you can get to that 50 mark people always ask me like
How do I keep coming up with ideas guys I've been doing this everyday a blog post very single day for years and there are times when I start to think to myself okay that's it I've got to quit my blog I don't have any more ideas and then all of a sudden an idea will come out of nowhere so keep that running it on better way.
I'm sharing all my top tips for starting a blog so if you're new to my blog you might not know that I'm actually a full-time blogger I just didn't YouTube for fun on the side but because I've been blogging for so long coming up nine and a half years of blogging.
I get so many questions about how to start a blog and I try to remind people that I started my blog in 2008 and things were a little bit different back then but there's still some stuff that I have learned over the years that would be helpful for starting a blog right now okay so my first tip it's gonna sound
So dumb when I say it but I hope you just hear me out on this and that is to just start if you want to get a blog off the ground the best thing and the only thing that you can really do is to just get going I know a lot of people like want things to be just right and just perfect.
but the reality is that you need to get going to get going and you're gonna learn things along the way and the only way to get started is to actually sit down and just go for it don't worry about things being perfect frankly there's going to be no one reading your blog at the beginning
which is amazing because that means you have a lot of time to just sort through and work out the details and really just get in the habit of writing it I think I see a lot of people starting blogs and the biggest thing that I see happening over and over again is that they get super excited the first two weeks and then they lose steam and they can't keep it up.
and by not putting a lot of pressure on yourself at the beginning for things to be perfect that's gonna help you just sit down and just get in that habit of writing your blog maybe once a week twice a week three times a week whatever you decide is the right amount for you people always ask me okay well I want to start a blog what should I do and I really do just respond you just have to start you know figure out what platformyou want to be on it doesn't mean you have to stick with that forever
you can always transfer a move down the road I started my blog bloggers which is a free platform through Google and I was on there from a seven and a half years and then I ultimately switched to WordPress but.WordPress isn't free so that might not
be the best option for you but look into Wix Squarespace tumblr blogger WordPress anyway pick a platform and just sit down and start pouring your heart out okay
so the second tip that I have is that everyone should go into blogging with the right intention you know I think when you start anything in life you should try to sit down and figure out like why you're doing this and what you want your end goals to be I think a lot of people look at bloggers or instagramers of youtubers or whomever and say oh that's what I want to do they get to travel they get to work from home
they get all this free stuff they get to work with all these amazing companies and yes it's incredible and that's such a blessing and I'm so fortunate and grateful that I get to do that but the number of bloggers who actually hit that level it's so small and a lot of the people that you're seeing who are experiencing that level have been doing this for so many years and that means that for years and years beforehand none of that was actually coming their way
So if you're starting with that is your intention you're probably going to get frustrated and feel down on yourself for not hitting those goals when in reality it's just like a long-term game I think when you set your intention to say I want to start a blog because I want to have a creative outlet.
That's why I started my blog in the first place or you want to start an online portfolio of all your photographs or you want to place with all your writing samples so that you can share that with other people or maybe it's just for your own self and no one's gonna see it so just start with an intention that will lead
You to success what I recommend saying is that this I
just something that you want to enjoy it and explore and no matter what happens and what opportunities come down the line as long as you're always enjoying
the writing process or photographing or anything to do with blogging as long as you're enjoying it you're actually successful and you won't feel frustrated
If you don't become a full-time blogger in a month or six months or a year I didn't start full-time blogging until I had done it for I think five years five or six years and I never intended on becoming a full-time blogger so that's just kind of like a cherry on the cake I've just always enjoyed the process of blogging regardless of whether I'm getting paid for it or sponsored or free stuff or traveling I've just always loved blogging even without all those thingsand I've always felt successful becauseof that once you start blogging
One of the things that I struggle with and that I hear a lot of other people struggling with is that you might have a hard time coming up with things to write about I always say you know come up with what your niche is gonna be and what you'regoing to be blogging about try to keep it narrow so that you have a specific take on something and that people know when they come to your blog that that's what you're going to be talking about but also broad enough so that you still have things to talk about over time you don't want to keep things super specific where after blogging for six weeks.
You've just completely exhausted the list of things to blog about but you also don't want to be so broad that you could blog about absolutely anything and your readers are gonna be so confused when they come to your blog because they don't really get what you're about so I always recommend that when you're getting your blog off the ground to sit down and try to come up with 50 blog posts ideas if you're starting a successful blog you're going to have more than 50 blog posts over time but I feel like that 50 number is such a sweet spot of knowing that you have tons of stuff to write about and if you can get to 50 you can get to 100 you can get to 500 and you can get to a thousand
But if you're writing that list of things and this by the way is just a list of topics it's not that you're actually going to sit down and write those 50 posts all at once you're just coming up with ideas if you get to number 25 and you realize that you really have exhausted that list maybe your blog is a little too narrow and you need to broaden the horizon just a little bit so you can get to that 50 mark people always ask me like
How do I keep coming up with ideas guys I've been doing this everyday a blog post very single day for years and there are times when I start to think to myself okay that's it I've got to quit my blog I don't have any more ideas and then all of a sudden an idea will come out of nowhere so keep that running it on better way.