From previous articles here on Teenius, I have concluded that articles are the most important thing about any blog, but yesterday (in one of those bathroom eureka moments!) I thought about another aspect of it, which you’ll have to read on about to find out more.
So, what I’m doing here is to hopefully give you some food for thought (to get you thinking)… so, out of the options I listed below, which do you feel is the most important for the success of a blog?
Money
Money is great, but I’m not talking about revenue here; I’m talking about money to invest. Let’s say that you have $1000 to invest – you’re bound to be able to make a pretty good blog through outsourcing all the work to professionals. Now, imagine if you had ten or twenty times that to invest in a single blog; just imagine what you could get other people to do for you.
Attitude
Money may be important, but surely without the correct attitude you’ll never run a successful blog?! I suppose loads of things come under this point, such as motivation and desire to earn (I would add goals, but that’s got it’s own subsection), which as we know are really important to make your blog successful. With the wrong attitude, your blog will go off on a tangent, so is the attitude the most important part?
Setting Goals
Told you it had its own subsection! So, how important are goals on your blog? The good thing about setting goals means that you can keep focused, as you always have something to aim for. The goal could be something as obscure as ‘I want to earn enough money for a car’, or something as specific as ‘I want a new logo on my blog’.
Knowledge
When I say ‘knowledge’, I’m referring to knowledge of the niche. It could be an awesome way to get traffic as you are giving quality information. This one doesn’t really need much explaining, so I’ll leave it at that!
So, what gets your vote?
Out of those four, which is the most important to you? They all have big parts in blogging, so I will accept that it is hard to make a definitive decision, but please leave your thoughts in the comments section, I’d love to hear from you!
A bit of news…
Whilst I’ve got your attention, I was hoping I could bring you some news here on Teenius.
Firstly, I would like to apologise for not posting on Friday; I was rushed in to a baby-sitting job and literally didn’t know about it until ten minutes before I left the house, and then on Saturday (yesterday) I had family round, so couldn’t post then either. I’ve also been very busy working on my new blog, which will be up very soon.
Now I’ve got the apology out the way, here’s some lighter news. To start, there’s an awesome contest going on over on Brendan Wenzel’s blog, where you can win some great prizes including custom Twitter and YouTube backgrounds, as well as a unique theme for your blog.
As well as that, I was hoping you guys will check out the voting page for the article section of David Shaw’s contest. If you enjoyed my article, I’d really appreciate a vote!
money is an extra, if you have something to invest into you blog it would be very great bonus to boost your blog, but it just an extra and not play important part.
attitude, setting goal and knowledge are a food to help your blog grow.. without it your blog will starving and actually might die from it.
good post for make people to think deeply about what actually fire the blog:)
Thanks for the comment Izzat, and I’m glad the post got you thinking a bit, it makes a change from the stuff I usually post (and indeed what lots of other blogs regularly post)
I think that if you have money to spend you should spend it on a nice design and some advertising, or contests etc.
I would always remain full control over my blog!
You may say that, but look at Michael Dunlop. He runs 3 extremely successful blogs and, as far as I know, he outsources a lot of the work!
For me, setting goals and attitude. Without having goals and attitude to reach those goals, your investments will only be wasting money. Just like goint to a supermarket hungry. You will end up buying unnecessary items. So, without, knowing what you would accomplish (in other words setting goals), you will only waste your time and money.
Very good point, Ali. Although, not neccessarily. You could hire someone to do everything for you; you wouldn’t even need to know the blog domain but, as long as you hired a good blogger, you’d still be earning. But that way you won’t create a community and you wont be known very well, which is a big part of success in my opinion.
I choose to pick goal because my blog surely will go no where without it.
Interesting,
I think it’s a hard decision to make as they all are pretty importent.
Everybody likes to earn money and I think a good way to do that is to set some goals and try to work yourself to those goals. Staying focused and determind will increase chance to be succesful.
Very true. I guess the great thing about goals is that it does make you focused and determined as you’re aiming towards something specific, rather than just blogging for the sake of it!
I think Goal is main thing, without a fixed goal your money will be waste. And if you have some goals then you get new ideas of completing them. Nice post.
Glad you enjoyed the post, and thanks for the comment!
I will go for the attitude. Everything else follows when one has the attitude.
Maybe, but without goals you don’t really have anything to aim for or to motivate you.
Still, attitude is extremely important!
Hey Hi Simon how’s your blogging going on ?
Hey Harish, long time no speak buddy!
Yeah, it’s all good man, I’m actually about to launch a massive contest here on Teenius starting next month, and also launching a new blog very soon!
hi to everyone… According to me goal is very important in the above four things… Without setting goal we cant become a successful blogger. We should know what we are doing…
Very true. Goals give you something to aim towards, thus keeping you motivated (especially if you really want to achieve the goal!)
IMO, attitude is the most important characteristic for success. With the right attitude, anything is possible. Problems get solved, people like you, motivation is a non-issue, etc…
I hadn’t actually thought as deeply in to ‘attitude’ as you’re saying, so thanks for adding to the post, Gabe!
I should say that attitude matters the most than any other things.