It didn’t take me long to realize that I have little chance to be as successful an entrepreneur as someone like James Richmond from The Infopreneur, now I say this knowing that he hasn’t yet even come close to tapping his potential but I foresee James will be up in the same leagues as David Risley within probably the next 12 – 24 months in my honest opinion. They have something that I lack and that is a true entrepreneurial spirit which is what drives them to be better than the rest, to stand out more than the rest and this also gives them a great ability to market themselves and promote.
I know James is on the verge of launching some services that will help other bloggers reach success as fast as he did and he is one person who doesn’t preach what he can’t backup. His site has grown in less than five months to being under 40k Alexa Rank and being within the top 15k blogs in the U.S. According to Alexa Rank. This took me more than two and a half years to achieve with my DragonBlogger.com that he accomplished in less than six months. He is as dedicated as the best and has the drive and spirit to match his dedication.
I myself have gone through blogging peaks and valleys over the past two years with some weeks being greatly inspired and blogging up storms and networking like crazy, and other weeks I barely have the energy or desire to punch out more than a handful of articles. One thing I do on DragonBlogger.com is provide information and tips to bloggers that are as good as any other blogger, but I lack any real desire or motivation to package my material into a sellable product. Though I probably could affiliate sale some eBooks and I write good documentation I am still trying to figure out how to be where I want to be with blogging.
Realistically I envisioned this blog as being more of a technology blog with articles and information related to software, freeware, technology and such. I gradually included blogging tips and always vowed to help other bloggers realize what you really could reach by blogging and eventually my blog become more famous and popular for my blogging articles than my technology articles and now stands somewhere in the middle. I guess the reason why I am not as motivated and driven to drive my blog into a frenzy is because I do love my day job and I do work forty hours a week.
I actually can tell you I don’t want blogging to be my full time job, I enjoy it more as a hobby and would probably get frustrated and bored of it if I had to do it as my only source of income.
I share this with my readers to let you know that dedication is what will set you apart from the rest, and if you don’ t have mountainous levels of dedication you will barely be able to get your blog to stand out among the millions of competitors. If you truly want to be a success and star in the blogging world you need to have a drive that is long term, not just a passion that fizzles and burns out in six months. You must see yourself in two or three years and set goals and what if’s that test to see if you have the resolve and dedication to take your blog to the highest levels.
Answering these simple questions can help you determine if you have the drive to send your blog to the top quickly or let it kind of crawl its way up the slopes.
- Why do you want your blog to be a success?
- Are you blogging for money or fame?
- What do you want from your blog?
- What do you want from your readers?
- What should your readers expect from you?
- Do you have twenty or more hours a week to dedicate to blogging? (This means you will likely steal time from many if not all of your other hobbies to blog)
- Can you commit to writing no less than three hundred original articles per year?
- How much do you enjoy blogging?
- What product/service do you plan to create and sell to your readers?
Know what you are going to be getting yourself into before you start a blog if your intention is to try and reach the highest levels and earning potentially of blogging. I also ask the last question because I am sure now after two and a half years of blogging that the only way to achieve the highest levels of monetary success through blogging is to sell a service or range of services. This does include being an affiliate, but unless you are selling a product or service and making money from selling something you are highly unlikely to achieve a six figure income just from advertising and promoting products through paid posts. (There are exceptions but these are so few).
So tell me, what is your drive to blog? What service do you plan to sell? Where do you want to take your blog?
-Dragon Blogger
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:00 am
And now i am thinking to hate my daily job so i can have full dedication in blogging.
Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..Write Short, Please!
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Not saying you have to hate your day job to be a more motivated or dedicated blogger, but it helps to drive you when you are trying to escape from something you don’t like.
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Sure man — it is not a must. I only find this idea (hate the daily job) is funny and interesting regarding to achieve success in blogging. And it seems logic.
Dana @ Blogging Update´s last blog ..Write Short, Please!
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March 8th, 2010 at 9:26 am
With the amount of time I spend on my computer blogging, anyone would think it IS my full time job
BlazingMinds´s last blog ..Blazing Minds – Guest poem by Justin Germino
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March 8th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Yeah same here!
TheInfoPreneur´s last blog ..A Step By Step Guide To Doing It Everyday + Video
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March 8th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Brother I think you underestimate your own site. The following you have is incredible and I think being around for so long holding the position you have is fantastic.
I have looked to you for inspiration and motivation and more than anything how it’s so important to keep grounded.
Thanks for the mention brother, very humbling
James
TheInfoPreneur
TheInfoPreneur´s last blog ..A Step By Step Guide To Doing It Everyday + Video
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March 8th, 2010 at 11:00 am
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March 8th, 2010 at 11:45 am
I definetly needed that list…as I start over I will really think about what it is I need this time and what My readers are interested in. Thanks my friend
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March 8th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Thank you for reading and may we all find the dedication and time to reach success.
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March 12th, 2010 at 10:41 am
I understand brother, I think i have the opposite problem.
I would say I’m as dedicated, motivated with as much desire as anyone out here…perhaps too much or a serious case of ADHD.
I seriously need to buckle down and FOCUS; accomplish one thing at a time and move to the next.
Dennis Edell´s last blog ..Meet CJ – My Awesome New Designer!
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March 12th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I was very unfocused early on, spend so much time bouncing between writing articles furiously, promoting, tweeting, and back and forth not knowing how to best optimize my time. Now I am much more evenly paced but focus more on writing articles than promoting, since 77% of my traffic comes from Google Search which is doing 0 marketing on twitter or other social networks.
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April 21st, 2010 at 5:24 am
Hard Work Everyday and Not Giving Up is how you become successful at blogging or any other business.
Decide what you want and go after it.
I agree with James.. You have a great site here and I have seen you mention few times in the blogging world.. so not bad at all man.
John Paul Aguiar´s last blog ..My Crazy Simple 7 Step Plan To Promote A New Post
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April 21st, 2010 at 6:50 am
Thank you, I am certainly trying and having a good time at it.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 5:35 am
*sigh* This is definitely what I am feeling at this moment. I am feeling pretty overwhelmed with the realization of how much work it takes to be a good and successful blogger.
When I started I thought , “You write some stuff and if people like it they’ll read it and you’ll do well”. A year in I have discovered it aint quite as simple as that. You do have to be highly highly motivated. A blogging workhorse.
So I appreciate this post. Helps me evaluate where I really am and where I want to go and how much effort am I really giving to do it.
Don’t be discouraged DB many of us are trying to get to where you are. You have a great site here.
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June 23rd, 2010 at 7:24 am
Thank you, seven or eight years ago if we started blogging we would have received much traffic by default, many super mega successful blogs are so because they are among the first and still have huge loyal following. But I have seen a few blogs that popped up only in the past two years and reach more than a million visits per month in being less than two years old, I am still trying to reach the 100k unique visits per month mark which is my goal.
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August 4th, 2010 at 6:09 am
not surprising i was just thinking the same thing this morning, i know i have read this blog before but how true is what we are accomplishing here? myself as well, I do it to help those who have had some heart break and have lived through it. my experiences hopefully will help others, I try a variety of subject, some with humor but mostly about love. I really like your site, no matter what the subject is, always interesting, even the tech stuff. keep it up…you are one blog i look forward to reading although i don’t always comment im am still here…thanks DB
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