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7 Simple Blogging Habits That Will Separate You From Newbie Bloggers

You may have just started a blog and want to turn it into a successful blog. Yet, you look around and see so many others who have just started blogging as well. Everyone is out there giving you advice for free but who do you trust, really? What’s the difference between your blog and the thousands of blogs that are already out there? How do you make your blog into the next big thing? How do you gain followers, increase your traffic and create a popular blog?
While there are many experts out there on the blogosphere, blogging is part science and part art. The best part is that it’s a lot easier than what others make you think. It’s not rocket science. You can become a successful blogger but it may just take a little bit of time, consistency and persistence. You can do a lot of little things to stand out very quickly in the blogosphere.
Here are 7 tips to help you stand out from newbie bloggers:
1. Blog consistently
The best way to gain traction on your blog is to show up regularly. Just like your favorite tv show or magazine, you want to publish on a regular basis so that your readers know when to expect your posts. I’ve tried my best to post weekly but I’ve found that I received the most traction when I write on my post twice a week. You can write more often but even 2 posts a week will take up a lot of time and effort. Whatever you do, try to stay consistent. Show up when people expect you to show up. Publish on the days people expect you to publish.
2. Connect with other bloggers
The difference between blogging and writing is that there are deeper connections and networks in the world of blogging. Other bloggers can help you take your blog to the next level. Other bloggers can provide advice, support, camaraderie and more. Other bloggers, if you help them, will post your guest post on their blogs, share your content, answer your interview questions or help promote your next creation. The key is not to ask your favorite bloggers to help you do things but simply to become helpful to them first. Build up the relationship and deepen your connection with your friends online.
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon
3. Find out what your readers want
One of the big differences between new bloggers and experienced bloggers is the focus of the blog. Newbie bloggers focus on themselves. They share their problems. They write posts that help them. They want others to share their posts. The focus is never on the reader. If you want to stand out, simply change your focus to the audience. The way to do that is to find out what it is your readers want and the way to do that is ask. Email them, message them on social media, send them surveys, analyze their comments. Try to get a better idea about what interests your audience and what they want to learn.
4. Write posts that solve problems
After you find out what issues your readers are facing, write posts that help them solve those issues. Be helpful to the struggles and challenges your readers are facing. Use the questions they pose and the emails your readers send you as ways to understand what your readers are confronting. Once you understand their problems, walk them through the solutions. Help make your readers’ lives easier. Keep your focus on your readers, instead of yourself.
5. Be sure to collect email addresses
A big mistake that new bloggers make is they pay little attention to collecting email addresses. They value traffic and social media more. The blogosphere is like one big mall. Your blog is like a store in the mall. There could be hundreds or thousands of people who walk by your store without ever coming in to buy something. Value readers who return regularly more than visitors who are walking by. Value readers who want to read your content regularly and want to support you. Value them by collecting their email addresses so you can send them more of your content.
6. Communicate with your readers regularly
Once you have email addresses for your readers, be sure to stay in contact with them. Don’t simply collect addresses and forget about your readers entirely. Your readers signed up because they liked what you had to say. Be consistent and habitual about reaching out to them. Send an email every week or a monthly newsletter. Use a regular communication channel to build a relationship with your readers and subscribers. When you do communicate with them, ask them to read your blog, share your posts or to comment on the posts that you do write.
“Don’t focus on having a great blog. Focus on producing a blog that’s great for your readers.” – Brian Clark
7. Promote your posts after you’ve written them
In the early days, not many people are going to be reading your blog. To get the word out, you have to do some marketing. Marketing is simply letting others know that you’ve written a post. You can do this by emailing your friends to let them know you’ve written a new post. You can also send your posts out to your regular readers on your mailing list. Then, you can share your posts on your social media networks. Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to let others know about the post you’ve just written. The more you get the word out initially, the more eyeballs will read your posts. Few will find your post by themselves. You have to help them find your writing by sharing your posts far and wide.
What blogging strategies are you using to stand out? Please share in the comments below!
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How Your Beliefs Can Supercharge or Sabotage Your Success
Your life is dictated by beliefs and biases that drive your thinking, behaviors, and decisions

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How to Break the Cycles of Mediocrity and Manifest Your Greatness
There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity

In just a few weeks, we will be wrapping up 2023. Can you believe it? This year has been absolutely incredible for me.
I have seen amazing doors opened, new relationships formed and I am seeing dreams realized in my life. While this seems like the hallmarks of a great year, this has also been the most challenging year of my life. With all of the change happening in my life, I have been forced out of my comfort zone and challenged to grow in every area of my life.
I can truly say that I have made the most of my moments this year and I have used everything as a catalyst for maximizing my greatest potential.
As a revolutionary leader, I have the pleasure of consulting and advising leaders around the world to fulfill purpose, realize their greatest potential and make an impact.
I want to share some insights with you that will help you to break cycles of mediocrity and manifest your greatness.
Everything legal must come through the matrix
I am sure that some of you are wondering why I am using the term matrix. However, what you have to understand is that I am trying to make a highly complex spiritual principle practical to understand.
Regardless of your spiritual beliefs, every life has an origin and I believe that origin is divine and begins with eternity. You are birthed from eternity and into time to fulfill a unique purpose and assignment in your lifetime and generation.
The matrix is simply the portal or vehicle that brings something out of the invisible realm and into tangible form. The problem with much of the teaching today is that it excludes the matrix. We are told to believe that success is instantaneous and overnight.
Nobody talks about how a dream progresses through stages beginning with visualization and ultimately culminating in manifestation. Without a matrix or portal then everything that you attempt to birth and build will be illegal.
The matrix not only makes you legal but it gives you the authority and power to function as the greatest expression of who you were created to be.
Every matrix has an incubation process
While many people admire and respect me today, I remember a time when nobody knew who I was or the significance of my message. How did I get to where I am today? I got here through an incubation process.
In other words, everything that has been destined for your life is incubating and awaiting a set time of manifestation. The problem is that most people live their entire lives idle and never initiate the incubation process.
What do I meany by that? Most people are living reckless and very few people are living intentionally. I am amazed at the number of people I have conversations with that have no vision, goals or strategies for their lives. They show great promise and they have undeniable potential.
However, without development they will die with their dreams still in them.
Everything that has been destined for your life must be incubated and converted to become realities born to time.
“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin to build.” – Robert Collier
You must give expression to that which is not yet born to time
When you think about a matrix or a prophetic incubation process, you have to understand that potential is often unrealized and untapped. In other words, your potential is in raw form and your potential cannot serve you as long as it is untapped.
The thing that makes me valuable is that I have the ability to convert potential into power. I have done it in my own life and I have empowered leaders around the world to do the same. How do you convert potential into power?
First, it is important to note that you have to perceive potential. If you cannot perceive your potential then you can never cultivate your potential. In addition, you must take the time to cultivate your potential. We often get excited about our capabilities; however, we never expand our capacity in order to realize our greatest potential.
In other words, the strength of your potential is only discovered through your willingness to stretch. The more we are challenged the more we are empowered to expand our capacity for greatness. Most of all, you must begin to express your potential. The expression of potential is different for every person.
For example, the expression of my potential is best demonstrated through the thoughts, ideas, products, services, books, etc.
For another person the expression of potential may look like a screenplay, artwork, sports, scientific discoveries, medical breakthroughs, etc.
Regardless of the form of expression, I know that you will live empty and unfulfilled until you make the decision to express your potential. The expression of your potential gives voice to your dreams, life to your vision, significance to your moments and activates your true power.
You must manifest your greatness
As a revolutionary thinker and leader, my work has impacted people around the world. I am grateful that my life is a source of empowerment to so many people. However, before anyone could ever benefit from my life, I had to make a non-negotiable decision to become who I was born to be.
I wish I could tell you that this journey is easy and that you will get there overnight. However, in a world that celebrates us for doing we are often criticized for being. As a result, I wasted a lot of time trying to be who other people wanted me to be instead of being who I was born to be.
There is no greatness without becoming and there is no becoming with authenticity. It is through our bravery to be vulnerable that we ultimately manifest our greatness. We do not bless the world by being a duplicate. We bless the world when we honor our difference. When you honor your difference you honor your potential.
Ultimately, your difference is how you manifest your greatness.
When you present anything but your authentic self to the world, you are playing small and you are robbing the world of your significance. Manifesting your greatness requires you to master your gifts.
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