What Are You Doing To Improve Your Blogging?
Bettering yourself comes so naturally as a kid. whether it be attending weekly soccer practices or getting piano lessons (the two things I did as a kid!), practice and learning seemed like a given. We had a set time each week where we knew we had to be there to learn more about something we love.
I’m not sure if it is just because our parents pushed up, but have you noticed as people get older they seem to focus more on the task instead of bettering themselves in that task. I mean when I was a kid playing soccer, I would always have at least one weekly practice (usually two), but now I am playing futsal (indoor soccer) and we just all rock up 10min before the game not having practiced at all the whole week!
I think that if you want to be good at something you really need to be committed to it – and learning is such a bit part in commitment. If you want to be the best you have to learn from the best.
For example. I recently started singing first at my youth group, then I was given the responsibility of children’s worship director and started singing in church. I must say I absolutely although love it and am doing it at either a practice or service 3-4 times a week, I know I can be so much better. I want to be able to do so much more. I have goals of being involved in professional cd recordings for both kids church and youth, and would love to tour the world with our youth band -so I decided I needed to be even better, and to start taking lessons from a professional vocal coach.
After having my first singing lesson today, my eyes have been opened to the possibilities and potential I have as a singer. She was able to tell me what I was doing wrong and the exact steps I needed to take to start seeing results.
I think this is exactly the same as with blogging. So many people are saying they want to be an a-list blogger but what are you doing to prepare yourself to be one. I know you can strike it lucky with digg and stuff like that, but even if you have a lucky break what are you doing to make sure you keep them?
You need to consistently be improving your writing technique, your posting style, your marketing strategies, your blog monetization, your networking. You need to be mentored by someone who knows more about things than you do.
Now it doesn’t have to be anything formal. I mean for you it could just be reading ProBlogger and learning from his posts. Or it could be chatting with a higher profile blogger than you and just learning from him.
Either way, if you want to be successful in blogging you need to be consistently learning. Consistently improving.
What are some of the ways you are improving yourself and your blog?
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5 Responses
5.30.2008
Well, some of the ways I improve are as you say, network and learn from bloggers that are more successful than myself.
I think we should always be looking to improve, our style, our knowledge, our network. Just surrounding yourself and participating with other quality bloggers can do wonders for your personal efforts.
I think I have learned more this week by networking with a few great bloggers, than I have from any books or videos in the past.
I definitely agree, I am always looking for new people to network with, and understand that I won’t be able to pick every single person’s brain, but those that I do have the privilege to network with, I continue to build that connection.
It’s always good to have buddies in the blogsphere. Great post, you just gained a new reader.
see ya.
5.31.2008
I think some people achieve this by attending conferences and different things, however, maybe there should be something a bit more formalized that can be participated in by everyone? For now, I guess I’ll just keep reading what everyone else doing and go from there.
7.1.2008
“chekhov’s razor”
the blogger does not exist who wouldn’t be improved by being put on a strict word limit.
7.2.2008
I’ve come up with some really original ideas.
First, I’ll make a “Top 10″-type list of posts on other blogs. I’ll synopsize them and then link to them. And the other bloggers will link back to my blog. That way we create a web og blogs on the Web of Blogs.
Cool, huh?
Every now and again I like to write fiction on my blog. I have a recurring, serialized kind of thing that I call, “Is that you, Tom?” It’s a day in the life of my house as told from the POV of my cat. Oh, that scamp and his silly adventures and wry observations. It makes me giggle just thinking about what sort of zany craziness I’ll come up with next.
Lastly, I like to do CD reviews. I’m fortunate enought to work in the same strip mall as a Borders store. Sometimes on my lunch break I’ll go over there and scan interesting-looking CD bar codes into theplayers there and listen to all the snippets of all the songs. Then I’ll go home ang blog my reviews.
Well, that’s it for now, fellow bloggers. I don’t want to give away all of my great ideas. I’m sure if you all think hard enough you’ll be able to come up with original and thought-provoking content just like me.
Keep a-bloggin’ everybody!!! ;-)