Its A Lovely Life – October 2019 Blogging Blastoff

1. The “Creative” Part (Doing What You Do Best)

Like I said, this is the part everyone focuses on. It’s the thing you blog “about” — the thing you like and are good at.

Maybe you like cooking, or photography, or travel, or healthy living, and you think you could run a good blog on it.

I probably don’t really need to explain this one to you — generally the creative side is the part you’re already good at.

Instead, it’s the next two parts where it starts to get hard …

3. The “Business” Part (Making Money From It All)

Basically, this means: how are you going to make any money?

Lots of people think that if you just put some posts online, you’ll start making money. But that definitely isn’t true!

Anyone who has a blog knows that you can spend hours and hours on great content (and navigating your way past technical headaches) … and still end up with very little money to show for it.

So, under the ‘business’ umbrella, you have things like:

• How do you get traffic to your blog?
• How do you monetize your traffic when you get it?
• Do you need disclosures on your site?
• Should you hire a virtual assistant? And when?
• How much can you be earning?
• How do you negotiate a contract?
• When do you have to set up your blog as a business?
• At what point should you hire someone to do your taxes?
• What else can you sell, and how much should you charge?
• Again, that’s only a tiny handful of what you need to know … but you get the idea.

Remember, most blogging resources only really tackle one of the three parts of blogging (and often it’s the creative one, the easy part!).

And when you look at everything you have to know, it can feel overwhelming. Like it did for me.

So how are you supposed to master all three of the keys of successful blogging?

Well, I’ll tell you what I did: I spent years and years learning it all by trial and error … and making a LOT of mistakes along the way!!!

I mean, it’s not like I really had a choice. There just weren’t any resources out there on how to build a successful blog.

So, all those things I talked about above? Yep … I was basically forced to figure them all out myself!

Now here’s what you might be thinking … “Well it worked for you Heather, so maybe that’s what I should do too?”

No!!! Don’t do that.

In fact, there are three huge problems with this approach which almost derailed me completely … and they happen to be the reason that most bloggers never “make it” in blogging.

Run your eyes over these quickly, and then decide for yourself if you think that “figuring it out yourself” is worth it …