April 13th, 2007
Ten Reasons to Start Your Blog Today
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If you aren’t already blogging, here are ten reasons why you should start immediately -
- Blogging is a great way to record your thoughts and experiences in one place - like an online diary.
- Blogging teaches you to discipline your writing. Blog readers have infamously low attention spans and, in order to retain them, you learn to put forward your thoughts in short and succinct posts.
- Blogging also teaches you to discipline your thinking. By setting, and sticking to, a blogging frequency, you learn to ideate on demand.
- Not only does blogging help you discipline your thinking and writing, it also fuels your curiosity and creativity because you are always looking for new ideas to blog about, or new twists on old ideas.
- Blogging not only exercises your brain, it also improves your social skills. It requires that you start conversations with your readers, connect with them, and engage them in your blog’s community - important skills, irrespective of what you do for a living.
- Blogging is a great way to meet interesting like-minded people beyond your social and professional circles. Some of my best friends today are bloggers or readers of my blog.
- Blogging is also a great tool to network with others within your professional niche, build credibility for yourself and become a thought leader in your niche yourself.
- By positioning yourself as a thought leader in your niche, you can leverage your blog as a resume and open up new professional opportunities for yourself that are otherwise not possible.
- If you are a wannabe writer, blogging is the perfect way to test if you are any good at it, record your research and notes for your book, and convince a publisher to give you a book deal.
- Finally, blogging is a good way to open up a second source of income, although the money is more likely to come not from the blog itself, but because of it.
