Take up blogging? Me?

Posted: Feb 04, 2011 |Comments: 0 |

If anyone told you you could also set up your own blog and be a success at it, would you think that person was nuts?

Here's your cue: you shouldn't. Just about anyone can set about starting a blog and making a success of it. Yes, the just about anyone includes you too.

And if that is beginning to give you ideas, you will want to know what is blogging all about.

You don't need a high IQ to set up your own blog. You don't need a college certificate. You don't have to be a bundle of superior talent.

You can achieve all the blogging ability you need, quickly and without working yourself into a lather. And without hurting your bank account something serious.

Blogging revolves around content (text, video and audio material) but that doesn't mean you've got to be a creative wizard. You are sound blogger material if you have information of value and if you can communicate it in unvarnished language that would make sense to a third grader.

Worried about costs? Well, you'll have no choice but to fork out a bit to buy things like a domain name when starting a blog, and hosting services and autoresponder services on an ongoing basis. Would US$ 10 per year for a domain name mean the end of the world for you? And what about US$ 10 a month for hosting and US$ 20 a month for an autoresponder? You cannot avoid these expenses if you want to be a blogger.


There are lots of other optionals you can spend on as a blogger, but they are certainly not of importance right now. They are optionals and you don't need them now to get your act going and set up your own blog.

Anxious about technical skill requirements? There's tons of free text, audio and video tutorial material out there in the greatest library of all time—the internet. Doubtless, you can follow guidelines in simple language involving no mind warping technical jargon? And you can faithfully follow and execute how to steps in text and video tutorials that clearly illustrate what to do about starting a blog and keeping it going—once again, without obscure nerdspeak?

Certainly you can. You just need to be enough of a technical genius to be able to switch on your computer and modem, do some internet searching and work your mouse and keyboard.

Believe me, you are quite capable of soaking up and acting on some new information: using Wordpress, using an autoresponder, putting up a blog and getting it indexed and ranked. By the way, in case you are fretting, age has nothing to do with it. I thought I was too old once, but know better now. I have got through 52 summers; over the last two, I have almost surely soaked up more new information than I did all through my 12 or 13 years of formal education. No, it has not given me an ulcer or high blood pressure. And yes, I have enjoyed it.

To go on to the sixty-four dollar question (we are being affordable): before you step out and set up your own blog, you need to finalize just what you are going to blog about. You very definitely have something you can blog about. Even kids do it: there are various instances of young children starting a blog in their early teens and becoming prosperous bloggers by the time their adult hormones started kicking in.

What do those pups blog about? Pups, kittens, gaming, school, teachers, dating... they don't have a shortage of hot teen topics. If you prospect your brains, you'll probably find plenty of nuggets of value you can pass on to others... teens or older folks.

There is a gargantuan market out there for information. People are short of time. They have no time to waste searching for the information they need. The internet is a blessing:  it helps them get what they want in a very short span of time. The internet is infinity. It can easily absorb and dispense your knowledge, too.

Read more on starting a blog here.

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