Who clarifies your false beliefs?
You have no reason to doubt proven advice.
But what if the advice doesn’t apply to your particular blogging business stage?
You might not realize which beliefs block your success and how you can alter them.
How about recognizing results that require a miracle for YOU to replicate?
Your head is spinning.
Instead of focusing exclusively on 10 lies I once believed, I’d like to clarify what OUTSTANDING mentors taught me to believe instead.
Think about your own negative beliefs as you consider the following insights. This advice will guide you toward your own business success.
1. Monetizing Your Blogging Business Depends on Your List Size
Focusing on increasing subscribers actually distracted from my success.
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Monetizing your business depends on quality relationships with subscribers, readers, viewers, social media fans, influencers, and collaborators.
Through connections, you’ll interest your online audience in what you’re doing. Eventually, they’ll trust your influence and support your business.
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You’re growing an online audience from quality relationships. These are people who will finance your business and connect with you in various ways.
2. Follow the System
Before developing my system, I discovered how to connect well with people.
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Become a master at knowing what people really appreciate without asking them. Developing two habits will help you make a lasting impact. First, tune into what people value. Second, practice giving genuine value.
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These habits won’t effect an immediate payoff. Strengthening empathy and generosity yield bigger, long-lasting results.
One day, you’ll influence others because of the value you provide. Click To Tweet
3. Blog More and Grow Your Blogging Business
It takes far more than blogging practice for blogging success.
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All skilled bloggers actively listen to their audiences. They listen to their audiences’ words, meanings, and points of view. Listening helps bloggers to shift from their perspectives to their audiences’ perspectives.
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Become a better blogger by listening to your readers. What keeps their interest? What do they communicate about, think, and believe? And what do they value?
4. Your Blogging Is Good Enough
My blogging quality depended on my goals.
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Ask yourself questions about your blogging business.
Are your blogs good enough to get published on sites where your readers are? Do your blogs make a difference in your area of expertise and leave readers wanting more of your content?
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5. Improve Your Sales Copy and You’ll Sell More
The selling power of authentic referrals couldn’t trump my sales copy.
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People believe authentic referrals over your convincing, persuasive, or compelling sales copy. Buyers want to trust that your services or products helped a similar person.
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Strive for authentic referrals. Express gratitude in ways people appreciate because they’ll be selling on your behalf.
6. Begin with a Profitable Idea
There were too many unknowns before I researched, listened to, and communicated with my target audience.
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Your first test is noticing how an audience responds to your ideas. Then, you need to entice your readers to communicate with you. Continue sharing content or communicating about your ideas. Gradually, you will earn their trust and they will respect what you have to say.
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Show your audience members you’re understanding, listening to, and learning from their perspectives.
7. Change Your Mindset
Hearing that advice alone didn’t change my mindset.
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When you experience a mindset shift, your perspective changes.
Your thoughts about your problems or goals change. How you think about resolving or achieving your end results also changes.
Altering your perspective makes you grow as a blogger. Your change in mindset prepares you to guide your readers, clients, and customers through their own beneficial mindset shifts.
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Note how you feel when your mentality changes. Use your experience and feelings to help others adapt their attitudes.
8. Anything That Sounds Too Good to Be True
People told me what I wanted to hear because doing so is easier than telling the truth.
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If hearing what you wanted to hear was enough, you’d be successful.
Preparing for what you don’t want to hear, but need to find out, increases your success. Eventually, you’ll find out what you need to hear. Keep in mind that your discovery might require a lot of your precious time or for you to suffer painful failures.
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Find people whose advice you trust.
When tough or unexpected situations arise, remember your resilience, open-mindedness, and thirst for learning. Think, “I can handle this!”
9. Success Takes Hustle
I quickly learned hustle isn’t enough.
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Besides hustling to create and promote your content, your content should make an impact.
Want to make a bigger impact?
Create content that’s interesting, informative, and educational.
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Multi-purpose content has greater impact.
10. I’m Not Good Enough
This is what I believed.
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You can change this belief, too.
Have a coach or mentor guide you through skills, communication, and experiences that will boost your confidence. You’ll undergo a mindset shift and eventually change this false belief.
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In sharing what I’ve learned, I’m expressing gratitude for two of my BIGGEST mentors.
Paying wisdom forward helps your blogging business success.
I’d like to amplify my gratitude with a surprise introduction!
Welcome to a 3-way introduction between YOU and each mentor: Jon Morrow and his SmartBlogger.com team and Conor Neill with Moving People to Action.
Recognizing your negative beliefs removes the obstacles to achieving your vision. Seek guidance from your mentors so you can identify false beliefs, clarify questionable advice, and learn deeper insights.
Sending positive vibes that your mentors and quality relationships will guide your blogging business to success!
Which mentor has boosted your growth the most?
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wow..wow….wow what an article…really very impressive i like this article very much….thank you for sharing. yeah you correct some blog are lies your examples are good.
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You’re awesome, Jayakumar for sharing your enthusiast praise.
Glad you found the examples helpful.
Sending blogging vibes your way…
~Keri
Hey Keri!!!
Thanks yaar… These tips are really very helpful once i read this article i found many solutions for my own problem also.
Thanks again
THanks . I just added a blog to my site and I needed something to learn how to start . thank you for sharing this
Exciting first step, Subrica!
Glad my post was helpful.
Come back and visit GrowMap for more helpful blogs.
What are you blogging about?
~Keri
Hey keri,
This is the first time I m visiting your blog your wrtting realy appreciated.
Great article thanks for sharing with us
Thanks
Raj Kumar
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Hi Raj,
Keri is one of my many expert contributors. She doesn’t own the site. The way you can tell a blog has multiple contributors is when they have author bio boxes in their posts. These aren’t necessary if the blog owner writes all of their own content.
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Thanks for reading and leaving a comment, Raj!
You’re welcome. Glad to hear the blog was helpful.
Keep visiting Gail’s GrowMap blog, Raj – you’ll continue to learn and be inspired!
~Keri
Thanks Keri ! I just started my blogging career and these tips are really very useful for me.
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I’m thrilled you found this blog and found these tips useful, Junaid. May you soon find blogging and business mentors who educate and inspire you. Trust their advice for helping your blogging skills advance.
~Keri
Keri I will to educate from them, because I am in search of professionals who teach me in this career.
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Nice one, Keri.
But somehow, I still disagree with your first point.
Quoting you: “Monetizing your business depends on quality relationships with subscribers, readers, viewers, social media fans, influencers, and collaborators.”
To build a quality relationship, you need an email because not all your updates or posts would get seen by readers, influencers, collaborators, or fans.
And to have their emails, we’re talking about email list already. Either ways, I learned from other 9 points.
Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
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You’ve made an excellent point, Saheed.
Communicating with your audience via an email list is essential for monetizing an online business. The ultimate trust is receiving someone’s email address.
Keeping a person active on your list -opening and reading your emails -takes strengthening the quality of relationships. i.e. Show them you care, provide what content they really need, listen for what approach they appreciate.
I applaud you for critical thinking -that’s an asset for your blogging success, Saheed!
~Keri
Hey Keri,
Thanks for sharing such an interesting and useful article. Its totally worth reading and i learned some very important tips form here.
I’m thrilled you found my post interesting and useful, Ella!
Thanks for reading and taking time to share praise and your thoughts.
Have you found 1 or more blogging mentors whose wise advice you trust?
~Keri
You are welcome Keri. Your articles are great source of knowledge. Well I never had a blogging mentor but I used to follow some other blogs and learned a lot form them.
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You’re awesome for returning, Ella. Appreciate your praise.
Keep in touch with Gail on Twitter @GrowMap.
Gail and a few other top blogging influencers collaborate with bloggers on a free Skype mastermind group.
~Keri
Thanks, Keri. If Ella wants to know more about that Skype group she can read and watch the video in the post I’ll put in CommentLuv in this reply.
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I completely agree with you. You explain step by step clearly. I hope it will help me in my blog. Thanks for the information.
Thanks for dropping by, Golam. Keep learning from experts and avoid what’s not working.
Recent advice I heard is “blog about what you’re learning instead of what you’re an expert in.”
~Keri
Yes, I agree with your false beliefs, Ravi to begin with a profitable idea or follow your passion.
Part of the reason blogging is a long term process is people lack expert advice and how to learn from deeper insights.
~Keri
Hey Keri,
There are many blogging lies people believe. They should know that blogging is a long term process and they should keep going until they reach their goal.
Begin with a profitable idea or something more than that. All you need to follow what you love. People should try to know what they really want to blog about.
You have mentioned some great points .
Thanks for sharing with us.
~Ravi
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very usfull article.now i ll starrt bloging.i love your article very much.plz give me your skype user name .i ll contruct with you
i hope you will always write as article .tnx you
You’re welcome and thank you for reading and leaving a comment!
Appreciate your encouragement for me to follow my mentors’ advice when blogging.
Do you have wise mentors you trust?
You’re welcome to follow me on Twitter @KeriVandongen. I’ll reply to your direct messages.
~Keri