Wow – talk about a little overwhelmed with knowledge on how to blog. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “Knowledge is Power”, I remember it being in large blue and yellow letters in my elementary school hanging on a banner. As I became older I realized that the meaning behind that quote was misunderstood. I believe that the true meaning or quote should have read “Application of Knowledge is Power”. If you don’t know how to use the knowledge you’ve learned you might as well be reading a fictional novel. That’s the part that separates the successful from the unsuccessful, that single piece that all of us have, the ability to put a plan into action.
Jack Humphrey says that 97% of people fail when they start an online business or a blogging business. The main reason is that people don’t want to do the work necessary to achieve success. Goes back to the quote above you can have all the smarts in the world but if you don’t know how to apply the knowledge you have the knowledge becomes useless.
Sir Francis Bacon
In case you were wondering -
Sir Francis Bacon is the one who said
“Knowledge is Power”
BLOG SUCCESS UPDATE
Yesterday as mentioned I spent the day building the website and going over more training. There’s a lot to learn when starting a new business, while the main parts of the site are up there is still a lot of work ahead of me. I feel a little pressured as I need or want rather this site to be up and monetized. (that’s what they call it when you turn your site into it making money) Due to this small personal hick up as in taking me forever to finish the content and site I’m holding off on my social marketing. However with that said I do continue to Facebook because its simple and so far I have 34 friends. Not bad for just one day and I haven’t even joined any networking groups yet.
That’s coming up next week on days 4 and 5 I think, I’m heading to Houston for the next three days so I’ll be posting in H-town and working on the blog and getting things going. Remember the whole point of this is to make sure and find out can you make good money blogging while still working at your normal job. Most people are going to be doing this in that manner. You are still working as I am and you want to be able to do both or the program, any program is not worth the investment. I’m blogging through day 3 and 4 and we will continue to post away and keep you informed.
Below are some fun things I thought you might enjoy before Monday – This is the new movie coming out about Blogging and Cooking. Looks promising and its a great thing for the blogging community and for cooking!
I want you to go and check out this guy! His name is Darren Rowse author of www.problogger.net- He has a great article below check it out for content building as I review Darren’s post often and he’s very successful at what he does. In fact he’ll be one of the gentlemen I plan on interviewing when we do our “How did you become successful blogging” piece.
Problogger – What is Comelling Content to You?
Until tomorrow -May your days be filled with laughter and your wine glass always half full!
James – TheBlogView.com
