“How To Start And Run A Blog By Yourself” is a bit misleading as the title for this article.
In fact, if you want to start and run a blog, it’s next to impossible to blog successfully without the assistance of many other people.
Not only is it difficult to do everything on your own, but it’s the least effective way to go about it.
So to run your blog by yourself, you’ll first have to learn to work closely with others.
You can play this video to find out how blogging communities can help you start and run your own blog. It’s my interview with Lesly Federici, a top voice in the blogging world.
How To Start A Blog
When you first start a blog, you’ll immediately see that it’s not something to try to do by yourself.
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Unless you have an unusual amount of technical skill, you’ll see that you need help with this.
You’ll want to find somebody to create your blog for you, to design it, and build features into it that you’ll need for doing business.
You need to have the right theme for your niche.
You’ll need an attractive header, an optin box to build an email list, sidebar banners, and all designed nicely enough to make the right impression on your readers.
You’ll need to create a domain, find the right hosting package and a reliable auto-responder to manage your email list.
Now, these are just a few of the things you’ll need to do to start doing business as a blogger.
Don’t think you can start it alone.
Connect with the right people and services to help pull it all together.
How To Run A Blog
Running a blog requires many things.
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You’ll need to put good content on your blog.
It will need to appeal to your target audience.
You’ll want to manage and promote your content to get the right people to see it.
You need a steady flow of traffic to your blog, and a well conceived format for monetizing it.
Those are just a few tasks you to master.
You probably won’t be able to do these things without help, though, so you might as well understand right from the start… running a blog is running a business.
Nobody tries to run a business without a strong support team.
So running a blog is really about learning to make connections with many different people who can help you along the way.
How To Start And Run A Blog By Yourself
I think you can see that it’s a foolish undertaking, to even try to start and run a blog by yourself.
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The first thing you’re going to need to be successful, is a blogging community.
That can be simply a gathering of all the various people you bring together to help you make your blog work.
Or it can be a formal community that you join to help you with all these things.
When I first started blogging, I read Seth Godin’s book, “Tribes.”
He describes a tribal connection between all bloggers seeking a leader and a way to communicate with one another.
That made an impression on me, and so I named my blog Donna Merrill’s Tribe.
I was determined to take a central role in a a community of other bloggers, and find ever new ways that we could communicate with one another.
We’ve communicated and helped each other grow and become successful within the structure of formal tribes, or blogging communities.
We all agreed to certain rules and protocol whereby we would visit eachother’s blogs, comment on them and share them on our social sites.
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So it was a matter of creating, sharing and reciprocating with one another.
Outside of the formal tribes, though, I learned early on how to build my own connections with other bloggers and leaders in my niche.
These were people I wanted to form a relationship with.
Each of them helped me get traffic, develop better content or some other key part of my business.
Both the formal blogging communities I participated in and the informal tribes that I developed were a big part of my success.
They can be a big part of your success, too.
Don’t try to start and run a blog by yourself.
Build connections with those who can help you right from the beginning.
It will make things go much easier for you, and will make you a far more effective and successful blogger in the long run.
-Donna
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