How to Know if Blogging is Right for You?

Are you also a part of the rapidly growing blogging community? Well, if yes is the call, and then let me tell you that you are not alone.

Many new pals are joining this field with the hope of earning something from it, but does everyone earn? NO!

Most of the bloggers end up in ‘No Money’, but immense frustration.

Just like other fields, blogging is not right for everyone.

So it’s very important to know that whether blogging is right for you or not?

How? Ahhan! Don’t panic! It’s quite simple to do so.

Check out these tips to get answers for ‘How‘ part.

Are you Passionate about Blogging?

Let’s start the ‘Blogging’ test with honest and a question which is alone enough to complete the test to a big extent.

Be honest while answering it as your answer will decide that how long will you go in the blogging race.

Many people enter into the blogging with the sole purpose of making money.

Of course, everyone wants to make money blogging, but one should not expect it from the first day of his/her blogging career.

Passion in the blogging defines your success with it.

If you are passionate about blogging, then nothing can stop you on your way to your aims in blogging.

Blue Computer Key with "blog" word on it

Are You Disciplined?

Are you living life with a proper set time table or are you doing the things at random?

If you are of the latter category, then it’s time to mend your ways of living now.

Perfect schedule is highly required to get success in blogging. If you strongly believe that you can be disciplined, then only dare to enter into blogging field.

But if you think that you will get success in blogging by performing the things at random, then OK, go ahead.

I bet that you will end up with frustration and zero result of course.

Who knows your mentality may not allow you to hope for the best thereafter.

Do you have Patience?

As already stated, getting success in blogging is a slow process.

If you are in the misunderstanding that success will be yours after a week or two, then it’s time to update your thinking.

Blogging is slow process and small steps take you to the height of success. So you should be patient enough to wait for your efforts to bring results.

In fact, patience is key to success in blogging. If you don’t have this quality, then sorry, blogging is not for you.

Still, the last choice is yours. Join it, if you want to waste your time.

So this was the list of qualities that one should have to get success in blogging.

What do you think about yourself?

Is picking the blogging path, going to be right decision for you.

Come on; answer it honestly in the comment section below.

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Guest Post ByAmit shaw Young Entrepreneur from India, Twitter Addict, Blogger. He is the founder of Authority Blog iTechCode. Here are some popular post from iTechCode : Major Blogging Mistakes Not To Be Done By Newbies and Why Most Bloggers are Unable to Make a Living Online.

About Amit Shaw

Amit Shaw Young Entrepreneur from India, Twitter Addict, Blogger. He is the founder of Authority Blog iTechCode, Technoinsta and Androidfirm.

Comments

  1. Hi Amit Shaw ,
    Very well described about what all qualities should a blogger need to have to run a blog of his own. Every one do think that earning money from online(blogging ) is very easy :) but this Qualities are so important in blogging to earn money :) Thanks For Sharing this information with Us :) :)

  2. Nice post by the guest blogger saying ” how a blogger should be”. Yes, am honestly replying “am a disciplined, passionate blogger with patience and blogging not for money” . Not only me, I hope every blogger should be like this to thrive in blogging!
    Neatly written Amit! thanks for writing!
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  3. Great post Amit.
    Patience and discipline are so important if you want to be a successful blogger, you most definitely need a long term plan if you want to make money from blogging. It cannot happen over night, many think it will and will get a rude awakening. However, over time blogging is definitely worth it.

    The time sacrificed to blogging will eventually pay off more than a normal day job. As you rightly say though, if you go about doing things randomly then you will not do it. You cannot be a bit hit or miss and be successful with blogging. You need a schedule and plan to follow, without one you will simply give up.

    Passion is also very important, maybe more so than the others, if you have a passion then you love doing what you do, if you love doing what you do then you will do what is needed to keep your blog alive and that is half the battle won with discipline.

    Passion can motivate a person to become successful. Great post, will share :-)
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  4. Most bloggers haven’t patience and discipline. Today, people want instant income from writing. But it is especially important to set goals and keep these goals.
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  5. Blogging is not for everyone. People often get involved in it as they think (or have been told) that it is a fairly easy way to make money. That is just not the case!

    It takes hard work, determination and, as Amit said, lots of patience before you earn a single penny. That’s not to put people off, but people should be aware of what they are getting into.

    If you are prepared to do the work, then blogging is a fantastic industry to get into. You get to work for your self, meet people from all over the world and build your own business. Any business takes work to get it off the ground, but if you can, you will love blogging!

    Great post Amit!!!!
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  6. Erik Emanuelli says:

    Well, Amit,
    first of all thanks for your guest post, it’s my honor.

    Then, it seems that you are receiving a pretty nice number of social signals in your guest post here! :-D
    You’re making a record!

    You shared good points in your article.
    For me blogging at beginning was just a curiosity and it was hard to learn the “technical” stuff.
    But with passion you can achieve anything you want!
    I think also constancy is very important while blogging.

    Thanks again mate! :-)

  7. These qualities are all extremely important — particularly if you are in the marketing and blogging niche itself, since it is so saturated. Things might move a little quicker if you have a blog in a more specific, less saturated niche (or sub-niche). There will be less of a market for it, but it will be easier to dominate that niche.
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  8. hat is a great way to sum up the necessary “skills” or attributes to being a blogger, but how about the dreaded word of “failure” when the blogs you put up don’t rank or get any traffic! Some might just give up while others will positively analyse their work and move onto the next blog etc. It’s all about mindset I believe, and how you deal with that “stuff that happens”. The thing is to Keep Learning, have an open mind and most importantly NEVER GIVE UP!

  9. Michael Sheridan says:

    As a web developer I made a lot of websites for others. I got used to seeing the majoring of the websites fail from lack of regular content from their owners. Now with my own website, I see bad traffic days that coincide with my not writing days and make avoiding the slump in traffic a motivation work.

  10. It wasn’t until I was blogging for awhile that I thought, “hey, I might be able to make money at this”.

    Well…that turned out to be true. In the year I’ve been blogging, I’ve made approximately $32.17, which I can’t even get out until I hit $50.00. LOL.

    Great post and so true!

  11. Another thing, bloggers should love to write. Bloggers are not just web designers they provide contents for their site.

    You must love spending a LOT of time on the internet. Blogging is not just writing and posting articles you also need to learn everyday. Spending a lot of time on the Internet is a must routine.

    Of course you must be comfortable publicizing your thoughts and opinions and prepared to take criticism, otherwise you may take critics too personally and even quit blogging.
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  12. Passion is essential to get a start..But discipline is what keeps you going…Great post…Thanks for sharing.
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  13. I think patience is the necessary thing for a blogger . :D Because everything takes time to get established and Blogging also needs time.
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  14. To become a successful blogger requires a lot of patience and perseverance. It is very true that you cannot achieve success overnight, but if you are really passionate about it, then in the end you will realize that all your efforts are worth it.
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  15. Jonathan Firth says:

    I agree about these three main points. Not separate from the point about passion, you need to find an area to focus on – something that you can keep writing about and researching for many months and years, and not get bored of it.

    And perhaps also, find a niche, where there are not already too many good sites around.

  16. Simply building a blog and posting doesn’t seem to work alone. I have found that integrating it into other media, such as Twitter, interacting with other users to provoke interest and feedback seems to work well to generate a readership.

  17. I agree with you Amit.
    Blogging for money == quitting after few months.

    People must be very patient to be successful in blogging. If they are not then it would be impossible for them to be successful!
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  18. Hey Amit, this is a brilliant post. Blogging is right for me. I have started several blogs before – and I got a new one last October to show that I am not frustrated in my experiences. I blogged and I did not make money. But I did not stop. I realized I haven’t done my best – and I need to learn more like you said it’s slow process.

    Again – thank you – this post remind me that I should be patient all the time.

    Regards,
    Prime
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