6 Skills That Will Surely Make Our Blogging Life Easier If We Know Well

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Blogging should be the most difficult way to earn money in this world yet there are so many people jumping into it everyday. Living a comfortable internet lifestyle is not a dream anymore but the percentage of people becoming successful is a minority.

Blogger’s job is not as simple as filling up blocks of letters in your post and publish them to your blog. Your job is not just that. In fact you need a few skills to make your blogging life easier. Skills which will help you to attract more traffic and turn that traffic into potential revenue source. What are the required skills that a blogger must know:

1. Writing skills

You don’t have to write like Shakespeare but it’s not advisable to see too many mistakes in your sentence. Using a lot of powerful words will not help you to become a great writer. Most important is to write short sentences which people understand easily. Words that come from your heart. What are you trying to express, just jolt it down simple and concise.

Your writing habit may be difficult to change. However, you can compensate by develop your own writing style and voice. Your main job is to take care some basic writing criteria of a post which is to:

• Create an attractive headlines
• Format the post
• Use sub header and bullet points

Be true to yourself when you write. There is no way to imitate the writing style of other people and you shouldn’t be doing that. Your visitors will resonate to your voice instead of seeing others voice in your post.

2. Coding Skills

I am a coding idiot. I always envy people who understand HTML and CSS to make their blog prettier. Though there is a lot of place for you to learn about HTML and CSS, we are just not determined and daring enough to learn about this. For people who loves everything about computer, it seems so easy for them to learn all these programming skills. For people who simply have no interest in computer technology, the learning curve is a bit steeper.

Somehow we shouldn’t be discourage, knowing some HTML and CSS is helpful if we need to tweak our blog theme. We are not aiming to be a designer or to build a WordPress theme from scratch. We probably need to change some margins, paddings or even colors which looks basic and easier for us to pick up. No matter what, it’s a great help to ourselves to pick up some basic HTML and CSS skills.

3. Graphics Skills

Are you designing your own logo and header? Do you know how to use Photoshop or Gimp? Well, i don’t. I have to outsource for freelancer to design my logo. That’s why i am very excited when Pat Flynn announced that he is going to set up webinars teaching his readers how to use Photoshop and Gimp. For people who possesses the knowledge, your blogging life will be easier as there are a lot of advantages.

• You can design your logo or header
• You can design your Twitter background
• You can design your Facebook landing page
• You can design your own ebook covers

Just imagine you can use it for anything related to graphics. You don’t have to rely on others to do this for you which will cost you time and money. Once you possess the skills, you can use it anytime on demand.

4. Speaking Skills

Podcast and videos are getting more popular and it’s another way to express your content. If your post is showing your writing skills, then podcasts and videos are showing your speaking skills. Not many bloggers are comfortable of getting their voice live in their blog. You may write well but you may not speak well. Speak well in the sense of no fumbling or muttering. Are you able to speak in proper English? I speak “Singlish” (Singaporean style English). I am still trying to overcome the fear of getting my voice out. Someday i will, please give me more time

5. Marketing skills

You can’t just depend on people to find your blog and read your content. You need to go out there and promote yourself. Leverage your network with other bloggers is going to be a big help. Are you visiting other blogs, commenting on other blogs and collaborating with other bloggers? Bloggers are known to be poor marketers. We shouldn’t be if we can spare some of our time to start creating relationship with others virtually and physically.

Bloggers are never known to be alone. We need help as well as helping others along the way. Start building a platform to show off our marketing efforts.

6. Investing skills

Investing in blogging include money and time. To be successful in blogging, you can’t rely on freebies alone to blog your way through. There are a lot of tools that can help to improve your blogging experience. You need to judge which will help you exactly. Investing on a wrong tool will be a waste of your money. You maybe looking for an affiliate program to promote. You have to choose the right one. It will be a waste of your time if the affiliate program you have chosen has a hard time in getting it sold.

Read more reviews from people you trusted will help you to reduce the chances of wasting your time and money. Ultimately you want your money and time worth spending.

Conclusion

I won’t say these skills are essential but it certainly makes our blogging life easier and smoother if we know them well. There are a lot of tutorials circulating online. We just have to make sure we read it up to get a better understanding. Just remember any skills you gain will be yours forever. No harm in learning a new skill that will help you to become a better blogger.

What other skills do you think we need to know?

Do the skills above make your blogging life easier?

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