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I love blogging not because it gives me enough financial freedom to cover all my expenses but because it gives me satisfaction and freedom to express myself openly to the whole world. Yet, I too like many other professional bloggers wish to earn some good cash to fill my internet and phone bills (at least). I turned up to the web itself and searched some really helpful blogging resources and tips to serve my audiences better and at the same time also get some real bucks under my pocket.
I found some really amazing blog resources, blogging tips, secrets of successful blogging and interviews of legendary bloggers. I cannot express my gratitude by words to all these successful bloggers for helping me out. I now found myself a complete new blogger after reading all these golden verses of successful blogging by world’s most successful bloggers.
I came to a conclusion that to be a successful blogger, first thing is to follow successful bloggers. Learn from them, experiment, and most importantly follow your passion and money will follow you.
Following are 30+ highly motivating thoughts, quotes and excerpts from world’s coolest bloggers ever. I recorded those sentences which inspired me most and added the source too which is also worth reading for every aspiring pro-blogger. I hope this will help you a lot in your blogging career.
Here it goes…
There are millions of blogs out there – the ones that are most successful almost always do something unique to stand out from the crowd– @Darren Rowse
Source: http://www.retireat21.com/interview/darren-rowse-interview
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If all you are doing is shooting for money…you are going to fail in blogging. It has to be a REAL passion to keep writing even when no one is listening. – @Robb Sutton.
Source: http://wpswitch.com/blog/interviews/robb-sutton/
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Blogging is all about forming relationships. There’s the relationship between you and the readers and relationship between you and other blogs in your niche. Make a commitment to get to know them and form that relationship. – @John Chow
Source: http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-make-2010-your-best-blogging-year-ever/
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So if you’re not blogging about what you love I’d say you’re not probably going to be successful no matter what you do. The other thing is, blogging is maturing. – @Michael Arrington
Source: http://technorati.com/blogging/article/michael-arrington-interview-sotb-2009/
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Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. – @Yaro Starak.
Source: http://bloginstallationservice.com/10-blog-traffic-generating-tips-yaro-starak/
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Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it. – @Michael Dunlop.
Source: http://thoushallblog.com/interview-with-michael-dunlop-retire-at-21/
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Your readers and loyal subscribers are the life blood of your blog in my opinion. Without them, I see no valid reason why a blog should exist in the first place. – @Yan Susanto
Source: http://thoushallblog.com/20-possible-ways-to-optimize-your-blog/
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Just write what’s on your mind and don’t stop. Forget about the grammar, sentence structure, facts, and research. The key to this is just to get everything in your brain onto paper. The more you get down the easier it becomes. – @Stanley Tang
Source: http://www.stanleytang.com/2009/02/12/7-ways-to-overcome-writers-block-when-blogging/
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The more time you invest into preparing a post, the more quality it will deliver to the reader and the more appreciative your readers will be. The latter will deliver your blog organic growth, traffic and solid readership – @Vitaly Friedman
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The biggest challenge for a blogger is finding the energy to keep going – luckily, young people have plenty of that.– @Pete Cashmore
Source: http://www.retireat21.com/interview/interview-with-pete-cashmore-founder-of-mashable-dot-com
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It’s also essential to remember that unlike the transient nature of Twitter and the great walled garden of Facebook, blog posts are effectively conversations that are eternally visible through Google, meaning they have more inherent value to brands. – @Brian Clark
Source: http://www.copyblogger.com/blogging-is-dead-again/
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Drip, drip, drip. Bloggers don’t have to say everything at once. We can add a new idea every day, piling on a thesis over time. – @Seth Godin
Source: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/04/write-like-a-bl.html
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It took 3 whole years for Read/WriteWeb to go from ‘hobby’ to full-time job. The bottom line: blogging is a very difficult, and highly competitive, way to make a living. If I didn’t have a true passion for the topic of Web technology, I would not have been able to put in the ‘hard yards’ (I think that is a kiwi or rugby expression, meaning hard work). – @Richard MacManus
Source: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/turning_blogging_from_hobby_to_career.php
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Blogging is about teaching investors and traders how corrupt the stock market is. And possibly even more important than the teaching is the learning—I’m learning what works, whats readers wants, how the internet is evolving—we’re in the bottom of the 1st inning with the internet, there’s gonna be stuff we can’t even imagine coming out over the next few years and it’s gonna be very exciting. – @Timothy Sykes.
Source: http://www.dailyblogtips.com/interview-with-timothy-sykes/
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Create something you will be proud of. Practically speaking, create value for other people, publish unique and useful content, network with fellow bloggers, give before you ask, and have fun along the way! – Daniel Scocco
Source: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/01/16/interview-with-top-100-blogger-daniel-scocco/
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Growing quality blog posts isn’t magic. We don’t sprinkle cookies all over the house and hope that the Blogging Fairy comes along and writes us posts in exchange for the cookies. It takes lots of work, and a strong commitment. And if it doesn’t come naturally, you CAN learn how to improve. – @Chris Brogan
Source: http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ways-to-take-your-blog-to-the-next-level/
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One of the things that keep a blog “alive” is constant communication between site visitors and the blogger. – @Brian Gardner
Source: http://www.briangardner.com/blog/my-22-best-design-tips-ever-part-one.htm
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It was easier to be a famous blogger than a famous actor—all you needed was an oversize persona to stand out from the keystroking horde.- @Mario Lavandeira(Perez Hilton)
Source: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-09/mf_perez?currentPage=all
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I realised how big blogging had become when I was fired. The power of personal publishing is only going to get bigger. It’s intoxicating. – @Heather B. Armstrong
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4683815.stm
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Don’t put all your eggs in the same basket. The “egg” here can mean “traffic”, “earnings’, and even “blog”. – @Hongkiat Lim
Source: http://www.incomediary.com/hongkiat-lim-interview-quitting-your-day-job-to-become-a-problogger/
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If you are good at business, money inevitably follows. It’s important as entrepreneurs that we don’t let it cloud our vision of what’s actually important in life. – @Collis Ta’eed
Source: http://www.retireat21.com/interview/interview-with-collis-taeed-founder-of-freelanceswitch-dot-com
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Just do it! Try it, if it doesn’t work don’t do it! If you like it keep writing! You need to write for you and not for other people. If you do that, people start relating to you! – Om Malik
Source: http://blog.blogadda.com/2009/03/05/interview-with-om-malik-of-gigaom
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I don’t believe in the traditional way of doing things, as these perceptions should be challenged; because that is what inspires innovation. – @Adii Rockstar
Source: http://adiirockstar.com/about/
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Blogging is to “blog your secret passions.” – @Arianna Huffington
Source: http://jezebel.com/5101882/arianna-huffington-blogging-is-like-stds-but-more-fun
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Your blog is your resume. You need one and it needs to have 100 posts on it about what you want to be known for. – @Robert Scoble
Source: http://scobleizer.com/2009/01/12/if-you-are-laid-off-heres-how-to-socially-network/
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I find blogging to be inherently motivating. Immediacy and editorial freedom are the two qualities of blogging that make the entire genre so dynamic for bloggers and their readers – @Brad Hill
Source: http://www.weblogsinc.com/2005/12/12/interview-with-a-blogger-brad-hill/
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‘As a print journalist, if you hear a rumor you try to stand it up and if you can’t the story dies,’ ‘With a blog you can throw the rumor out there and ask for help. You can say: “We don’t know if this is true or not.” – @Nick Denton
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/gawker
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To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality. By that I mean, it’s good to blog frequently, but the stuff you blog about has to be good. – @Mark Frauenfelder
Source: http://www.appscout.com/2007/05/interview_boing_boing_founder.php
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Use your blog to learn, share what you have learned and build a reputation. – @Gaurav Mishra
Source: http://blog.blogadda.com/2009/06/04/interview-with-gaurav-mishra-gauravonomics
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The wise panic that can paralyze a writer—the fear that he will be exposed, undone, humiliated—is not available to a blogger. You can’t have blogger’s block. You have to express yourself now, while your emotions roil, while your temper flares, while your humor lasts. – @Andrew Sullivan
Source: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog/3
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Content is king but marketing is queen and the queen runs the household – @Gary Vaynerchuk
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When asked, what do you want to be remembered for? Ben huh said “Make the world laugh for 5 mins a day” – @Ben Huh (Icanhascheezburger.com)
Source: http://www.personalbrandingblog.com/personal-branding-interview-ben-huh/
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A blog should not be treated as just another public relations vehicle. – @Michelle Malkin
Source: http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/malkin2.php
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Having a clear idea of who the ideal reader is for your blog’s content might be just what you need to take your blog up a notch. – @Michael Martin
Source: http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/01/10/the-secret-to-how-i-write-highly-targeted-content/
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Right from a teenager to net savvy bosses, almost everyone blogs their heart out. And that’s the beauty of blogging; you get to give your thought wings. Your thoughts go just the way you want, without a single cut. – @Kiruba Shankar
Source: http://www.merinews.com/article/blogging-the-new-fearless-expression/15763969.shtml
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Special thanks to Darren Rowse and Michael Dunlop, because many of the above listed blogging resources are taken from Darren’s problogger.net and Michael’s retireat21.com and incomediary.com blogs.
I know and admit that I missed to list many more helpful blogging resources by some very successful bloggers. I was forced by myself, not to oversize this article. You can expect the continuation of this article in my next post.
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