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BLOGTASTIC!: Blogging can seem like a thankless job
Imagine that you have been blogging for a while. You are recurrently provide remarkable and relevant content. You’ve become a master of the 3R rule, and you post regularly. Readers love your posts, and as a result your subscriber base and traffic has been increasing regularly. By so many perspectives, you’ve done everything right.
However, you still fee frustrated and feel that there has been no tangible benefit from the blog. There are no results that you can touch and feel. In other words, you feel like you are doing a thankless job. You may even experience blog fatigue. I have heard many bloggers make these comments. They wanted to give up because they didn’t get any “feedback” to justify continue blogging.
Here are a few things to remember:
• Not all of your readers will write an email or comment on your blog. Want proof? Just think about how many blogs and books you have read and how many emails have you sent to those authors even when you liked the book or blog?
• Good content or interesting content does not get thanked. Only outstanding or remarkable content gets praise. Even your best piece of writing will be compared with the efforts of all bloggers within your category.
• Until you reach the tipping point, the returns from your blog is not something that you can count in. Once your blog tips, you can expect disproportionate returns.
Last but not the least, remember this important point. With your blog, you may have infinite reach. That reach may mean nothing, because the readers out there will also have an infinite choice. Naturally, superior returns are reserved for outstanding works only!
Blogging Tip: You have to be outstanding to get outstanding results
If you want outstanding returns in anything you do, you have to provide something outstanding. There are no shortcuts.
Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in Silicon Valley. He maintains another blog called Life Beyond Code and tweets as @UpbeatNow