Your Key To Success

Creating blogs are an important factor to everyday life. It keeps us notified, interested, and alert, but to create a successful blog is a bit more challenging. Lucky for you,  if you guys keep reading your blog will be successful in no time with these hints and tips!

How to Start a Blog in Five Steps:

1. Choose a blogging platform, domain name, and hosting option.
2. Design your blog using a simple theme.
3. Modify your blog to get your desired look and feel.
4. Select the best plugins for your blog.
5. Write compelling content that adds value to readers

   RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOUR BLOG

1. Find Your Niche: Be passionate its vital for you to be interested and known to your surroundings
2. Define Your Ideal Readers. After you have became interested, choice your readers. Whether its children, teens, adults, or senior citizens.
3. Add Value. Your content must add value to your readers’ lives. This is the only way you will get Great Quality Readers to your site.
4. Be Original.Your blog different; it’s about your perspective, your creativity, the value that you add.
5. Be Interesting. Write epic, awesome content. 
6. Be Yourself. Part of being interesting is telling your story. Every person is unique, and your story is an important one. 
7. Be Honest. Your blog needs to be real—it needs to feel real—if you want people to read it. You can be your blog or your blog can be you. 
8. Transparency. Being transparent is different from being honest. You needn’t share every detail about your life just for the sake of being honest.
9. Time. Once you’ve learned how to start a blog, you’ll learn that blogging takes a lot of time, especially if you’re as neurotic as we are.
10. Vision. The reason our site design looks good is because we have a greathost, we have a great theme, and most important, we had a vision of how we wanted our blog to look. 
11. Find Your Voice. Over time, good writers discover their voice and their writing tends to develop a certain aesthetic, one that is appealing to their readers. 
12. We Instead of You. Use statements of we/our rather than you/your, especially when talking about negative behaviors or tendencies. It reads far less accusatorially. 
13. When to Post. Question: When is the best day/time to post a blog post? Answer: It doesn’t really matter. We don’t adhere to a particular schedule. 
14. Social Media. Yes, we recommend using Twitter, Facebook, andInstagram to help connect with readers and other bloggers, but don’t get too caught up in it. Focus on the writing first, social media thereafter.
15. Ignore Negative Criticism and Stupidity. Sure, we get a lot of negative comments and stupid questions from ignorant people who aren’t really our readers. But we pay them no mind; our site is not for them. Delete their comment and move on.
16. Research. Spend your time researching what you’re writing about. 
17. Keep It Simple. This is where minimalism can be applied to any blog, irrespective of its genre. 
18. Picture. Put a picture of yourself on your blog. People identify with other people. 
19. Comments. If you’re going to have comments on your site, then read.
20. Live Your Life. You’re blogging about your life. There are things that we always put before writing: exercise, health, relationships, experiences, personal growth, contribution.
6. Their you go guys, follow these steps and hints and your blog will be out and about in no time!

-Sharleen Pasha