Hey so you are planning to start a blog as 2017 commences? Or got a dead one and you want to revive it? Pretty awesome plan there! With everything being digitized, your business and personal brand need online presence nowadays, more than ever. We will be looking at some of the things you have to know before you start a blog.
Why do you need a blog?
Everyone is a seller. We are all selling something to someone at any particular point in time. We are always bargaining our prices through. This explains further why you need to be where your buyers are, as a seller.
Internet receives billions of visits every hour and if you are crafty enough, you can use this platform to reach out to them. It could that free book you want downloads from, a blog post that you want people to read or sometimes you simply need their time.
There is much I can highlight on this, but am writing an explicit blog on The Need of Online Presence, and so if you are not following this site yet, be sure to click the follow button just below this post at the right hand corner. I will also be writing more on Things you have to know before you start a blog.
Ten Things You Have to Know Before You Start a Blog in 2017
Now let us get to the serious section of the article. Gabriel Dinda has always been so keen to ask the question, what do you need most as a writer? This is not quite far from what we trying to answer, what do you need most as a blogger?
To start us with is definitely what your aim is.
1. Short and Long term goals.
What do you want to achieve given a certain period of time, and how is that relatively important when it comes to your own personal branding. As a blogger, start with an end in mind. Have the big picture. If you are using a free sub-domain like blog post or WordPress, maybe your short-term goal is to buy your own domain within the next six months or 1 year.