We have a public holiday in our region tomorrow and I am already in the mood of not doing any work. So instead of posting a fantastic post full of amazing content that inspires you to greatness, I want to share a few of my projects that never got off the ground.

5. CaseForChrist.net
This was meant to be a website where Christians could visit and submit stories of ways that God has impacted their lives. All the stories were to be added for visitors to read, plus I also had the intent to take the best stories and compile them into a book that would be sold on Amazons.

Why Did It Fail?
To many other ideas, I guess. I had a template made and everything, but then just moved on to something else and totally forgot about it.

4. WeLikeToBlog.com
This was supposed to be a joint project with a couple of fellow aussies where the three of us would just blog about our lives as Australians from states. But not only our lives but our interests. This lasted about 2 posts. I made one and one of the other guys made one – then it faded into oblivion.

Why Did It Fail?
We started it just after I started my personal blog and I found it hard at the time to be writing and promoting both – so one had to go. I still have the domain and maybe I will use it in the future.

3. PokerMoneyFree.info
This domain started as a email capture site that I planned on using for affiliate sales. When that didn’t work I thought the smart idea would be to turn it into a blog. I mean – I love blogging, so this will be easy. Right? Wrong! I think I made 2 posts and haven’t visited there since.

Why Did It Fail?
Looking back I have no idea why I turned it into a blog. I mean seriously, play poker, but know no-where-near enough to write about it constantly.

2. CustomBlogDesigner.com
Simply put, this was meant to be a rival for UniqueBlogDesigns. I saw how good they were doing and figured I could do the same but so much cheaper. I still think this domain has amazing potential for someone who has the passion to do blog designs – but my passion is in the blogging.

Why Did It Fail?
This one has so many reasons. First my design never got coded. I organised for a friend to do it for me, and he was always to busy – and it just never got done. Secondly, I took a monthly long break from the internet at the time I was supposed to launch it. And thirdly, I just really didn’t have a passion for design.

1. TomAndCody.com
This is probably my most recent failure, and made me realise never to involve a personal friend in your business ventures. This blog was supposed to be a viral type blog where we would make random video posts take offs of tv show scenes. Doesn’t sound as good as it did when we first thought of it.

Why Did It Fail?
Although it sounded good in theory, on second thought it sounded too time consuming. Plus after I purchased the domain my friend never mentioned it again. Although it hasn’t completely thrown me off working with close friends, as I have just convinced my best friend to start a blog – but this one has real potential.

What are some of your failed projects? Let us know below.

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I’m guessing that since you are visiting this blog, a blog about blogging, then obviously you either:

1. A blogger
2. Looking at getting into blogging

I can’t believe how popular blogging has got recently. The latest statistics I can find show that Technorati is tracking over 112million blogs and supposedly there are also over 72million Chinese blogs, which I am guessing are not being counted by technorati.

That is close to 200million blogs! Im guess a fair few of these are probably inactive, but even so that is still a massive market.

I Wonder How Many Are Performing The Roll Blogs Were Created For!

Have you ever thought about what the purpose of blogs actually are? I mean there are so many types of blogs out there, is there one correct way to blog?

I decided to have a think about why blogs even exist. I mean, we have news papers, online news websites, we have portals like yahoo and niche information websites. If we wanted to find something out we could. Right?

So Why Blogs?

I have thought of 3 reasons that blogs exist. I am sure there are more, but the chances are they will fall under one of these categories.

1. To Educate
   Since new ideas and information is being created daily, if we are not constantly learning we are not even just staying at the same level – we are actually knowing less. Blogs are an excellent way to provide education for people in whatever niche you select. Why?
   • You are posting daily – it’s not just a one off thing, but continual learning
   • Your blog gives you a platform to reach a larger audience with your expertise
   • With RSS feeds you are able to remind your ‘students’ about their next lesson

   I consider this blog to be an education blog as the purpose of it is to train and inspire bloggers to take their blogging to the next level.

   Here are a few great examples of education blogs:

   • Problogger.net
   • CourtneyTuttle.com
   • BloggingTips.com

   With education blogs the main priority is the content, then the delivery.

2. To Inform
   Information blogs are more commonly known as news blogs. Their focus is on letting you know about products and services that is of interest to their readers. The benefit that a news blog has over an online news website is its ability to be more personal. Because there is no shareholders and the like to keep happy, news bloggers are able to freely give their opinions (their honest opinions). I think this is something that draws a lot of people to news blogs and you will see that they can be very popular!

   Here are a few great examples of information (news) blogs:

   • TechChrunch.com (785k subscribers)
   • ReadWriteWeb.com (212k subscribers)
   • SmashingMagazine.com (66k subscribers)

   The key to creating and sustaining a successful information/news blog is speed and currency. People don’t want to read old news, they are always wanting the latest news and if you can be one of the first to give it to them, consistently, then you will have a growing blog in no time!

3. To Entertain
   Not all blogs have to be serious. Then again even the education or information blogs should be easy for their subscribers to read, but there is a huge niche ripe for the picking if you can provide enjoyment to your visitors. There are a whole heap of different ways that you can entertain your readers. Like:
   • Humour
   • Gossip
   • Being completely random

   People love to be entertained constantly, and you will notice that blogs in the entertainment niche are having posts added multiple times through the day.

   Here are a few examples of great entertainment blogs:

   • ICanHazCheezBurger.com
   • PerezHilton.com

I think those three categories cover the majority of blogs, if I have forgotten something let me know!

However there are a few things that I believe blogs were not created for:

• To create ‘just for adsense’ blogs
• So that you can make money off paid reviews
• To rehash what everyone else is already saying

I guess what I am trying to say is that your blog should provide a service to your visitors. Whether it be education, information, entertainment or anything else, AND THEN you can start adding monetization. And one final thing. BE UNIQUE. There are so many bloggers that are just writing what others are talking about because they think that is what people want to hear. I personally believe, who cares what other people are writing about, if you can do at least one of the the three things I have mentioned above, then you won’t need to copy anyone because you will have a unique services of your own.

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