As a blog owner, we are facing different challenges everyday. What are the challenges? There are lots of it. The main challenges are:
Traffic
- Attract new audience
- Increase traffic
- Increase subscribers count
Make Money
- Live an internet lifestyle
- Become a professional blogger
- Automate your income
These are the two that are generating the biggest buzz in the blogging world. Every now and then we are thinking ways to have a huge traffic visiting our blogs and finding different ways to make money.
Imagine you have written a great post. You are out there promoting your content but you are not seeing any results. Nobody is reading your blog. You come out with a new product and nobody is buying it. It’s discouraging, this can hurt your confidence. What must you do to actually overcome these challenges. It’s really simple. You blog/product must D.E.L.I.V.E.R. Deliver value to your visitors. Valuable information/tools which people can’t find in other blogs. How do you make sure you D.E.L.I.V.E.R value?
The word D.E.L.I.V.E.R already sum it all.
Delight your readers
Delight your audience by provide massive value in your post. How do you provide massive value? Provide solutions to people’s problems. That’s what people visit your blog for. If you do that on a consistent basis, your audience will be delighted and that means loyal visitors.
Exceeding expectations
If people are looking for 100%, what will they think if you provide them more than that? Always give more than what people expected. People will be very please if they receive more than usual. This is human nature and it means return visitors.
Learn new knowledge
Keep learning and adopt the best strategy. Learn new skills, new technology and new concept. Always committed to provide the best knowledge whenever you can. Equip yourself with the skills to succeed in the blogosphere. Whatever knowledge you gain is yours and your willingness to share with others helps you to build your credibility.
Innovative
Be innovative. Develop ideas and products that people have not seen can be a great surprise. Innovation rely on your creativity. It’s not easy to develop a new idea/product which is widely accepted. If you can do it, people will be amazed and that only signals well for your traffic and revenue.
Venture
We have to admit we have to spend in order to get our online business going. The basics are domain names and web hosting. Other than that, there are lots of tools which we need to provide a better visiting experience for the visitors. Premium themes, plugins, web service and application tools, membership and courses are some of the things which can make you a better blogger.
Empower lives
You are empowering your visitors’ lives by equipping them with the knowledge in whatever niche you are in. If you are in a food niche, you share with people how to eat healthy food. If you are in the blogging niche, you are sharing your knowledge of helping people to become a better blogger. That is empowering.
Reliable source of information
Once you fulfill the above, you are consider to be a reliable source of information. People look to you for advice. Your blog is the place where people come to look for solution and soon you will become the authority.
Do your blogs D.E.L.I.V.E.R yet?
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One thing I would add to this, though it doesn’t fit in the “DELIVER” acronym, is something I see you doing – promoting your blog. The “build it and they will come” mentality gets people nowhere. I found your site via your comments and now, because you do DELIVER, am sticking around.
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Hi Robert,
Those were the days. We can’t have those mentality now. Great content and marketing simply go hand in hand. Without any one of them, we won’t be seeing success in our blog.
Thanks for adding the point.
Lye
Awesome post Professor Lye! You are right bro. I agree with your points. Sure a blog must try to deliver if he or she want to build a great blog. Thanks bro.
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Hi Samuel,
Wish i am a real professor
Thanks for dropping by and the comments. Appreciate your support brother.
Hahaha LOVE the acronym mate!
Brilliantly done
Now that is Delivering, right there!
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Hi Alex,
Glad you love it. It’s great fun coming out with this acronym.
Thanks for commenting.
Lye
Hi Lye
Well written post and with the way you have delivered, easy to understand and remember. Quality content. Well done Lye.
Patricia Perth Australia
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Hi Pat,
We always have to deliver no matter what niche we are in. Glad you have taken something out of this post.
Thanks for dropping by.
Lye
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Hi Lye,
I’m enjoying this analogy, well done
Innovation is a biggie. It’s fun and exciting to experiment with new approaches to your work. This is where networking comes in. I’ve attracted more goal-achieving ideas by visiting blogs like yours than through any other activity.
The more you create the less you compete. The more you receive and share your inspiration with other bloggers the better it is for the whole. A wonderful concept, when you take a moment to think about it.
Robert makes a good point too; we must promote consistently to spread the word about our blog. Marketing your content persistently is an act of faith that causes it to be noticed because people are drawn to someone who believes in themselves.
Thanks for sharing your insight Lye.
RB
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Hi Ryan
It’s hard to be innovative. Visiting other blogs is definitely one of the good ways.
People see success because they are willing to share. The more we give, the more people will see us as the authority.
Peter indeed makes a good point. Without promotion, how can the readers find us.
As always, appreciate your wonderful comments. Thanks for dropping by.
Lye
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Top notch once again Lye. Wonder where you get these stuff that DELIVER
What can I say, you hit the sweet spot on being successful on the internet. I must say that you either do everything single one of them, or stale and drift away in the sea of other blogs out there that do just that, DELIVER.
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Hi DiTesco,
It just came naturally while i was surfing some sites. These are important to our blog success if we follow all of them.
Thanks for the supports and comments.
Lye
Now you’ve started me thinking!
I’m thinking about how your ‘DELIVER’ analogy can also to apply to us, as writers and bloggers -
1. D …Delight… for you and me as writers. The delight that comes from knowing we’ve written the best we can that day.
2. E… Exceed… our own expectations. We’re writing more than we thought possible and to a far higher standard than we imagined.
3. L… Learn. As bloggers we can learn what to write by asking our readers and fulfilling their needs.
4. I…Innovate…we must develop our unique writing style, our own vision for our blog. We must stand out from the crowd.
5. V…Venture…we must invest in improving our site, to make it a welcoming, friendly and comfortable place to visit.
6. E…Reliable…we will rely on our readers to join our community by commenting, subscribing and adding their own insights to what we write.
Just a few ideas I came up with from a writer’s viewpoint.
I am so enjoying visiting your blog, Lye!
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Hi Linda,
Great stuff here. Nice to see you coming out with your acronym.
I think you have sum it better than me. All your points emphasize on the readers and it’s important. Our readers are our motivation. Without them our blogs will be dead.
Thanks for sharing your view.
Lye
Hi Lye, I focused on the reader too, but was inspired by your excellent approach. Thanks!
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Lye,
I’d like to add an “S” to the end of D.E.L.I.V.E.R. –
‘S’how some personality!
You need to let who you are shine through. It adds to the entertainment value of your blog. It also gives people a glimpse of who you are, which makes it easier for them to relate to you. This is the best way I’ve found to ensure that your blog’s readers will keep coming back. Which, of course, is the gateway to building trust, and converting visitors into customers/clients.
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Hi Dave,
Definitely, we need to show our personality in our post by using our own voice. Besides providing value in the content, our voice is what attracts people to resonate with us.
Thanks for the added point.
Lye
Love how you broke this out into a simple way to remember what I call ‘the little things’. And as we all know, it’s the little things that make all the difference. Great tips Lye, thanks.
Marcus
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Hi Marcus,
Glad you find it helpful. It serves as a good reminder for us to continually make our blogs a top notch source for information.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
It really takes time, practice and patience to truly deliver. The important thing to remember though is that we must put in mind the interest of the readers–not ours.
Very good advice you have shared here Lye.
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Hi Walter,
Sure it is. Our readers should be our top consideration for our blogs.
Thanks for the reminder.
Lye
Very important & essential points for creating the successful blog. Every blogger must take these points seriously.
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Hi Shailender,
Nice to see you again. Thanks for dropping by to show your support.
Lye
Hey Lye,
I love the breakdown of D.E.L.I.V.E.R brilliant.
If you stick to your system you will definitely deliver, see more traffic and readers.
Thanks
Pete
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Hi Pete,
Glad you like it. I am trying my very best to stick my way of building the system.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
Hey Lye,
Even though it is pretty much the most important component, getting tons of traffic is definitely not the only ingredient for a successful blog. Having quality content also plays its role. Copying a few works from the first article directory you got your hands on, is most probably not going to be enough.
Liked the ‘Exceeding expectations’ part. That one is absolutely valid. In order to achieve it, you need to have something top-notch to offer though.
Being innovative is also a good one. Why would somebody choose to read your blog, when same stuff can be found on 100 other places? Presenting different points of view always makes a difference.
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Hi Daniel,
Definitely we are targeting quality traffic. Small but quality traffic is better than huge but bouncing ones.
Glad you agree with the points. Thanks for dropping by to show your support.
Lye
Great advice Lye.If we are not delivering value to our readers or potential customers we are losing traffic and money to our competition, because if you can’t deliver you can bet there is someone out there that can.
Your last advice on becoming a reliable source of information is great. What better way to become the authority on a subject by providing reliable information consistently, and becoming an authority will equal more traffic and more money. Thanks for sharing.
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Hi John,
Nice to meet you. If we get our facts right, soon we will become a source where people go to for information.
Providing value is the basic foundation for a successful blog. It’s always the case.
Thanks for the comments.
Lye
Yes i completely agree with your blog,if you are doing blog-engine if there are most important think is Increase traffic and good quality relevant post.
Thanks for your knowledge.
Looks interesting. This is my first time to read about this. I’ll try to get listed myself. Thanks for sharing.
Overall, deliver something that can be useful to everybody visiting your blog. Don’t just have those crap posted on your blog then still expect that visitors will love your blog! Some people are actually doing so many tricks but in the end, they are only encouraging one-time visitors only.
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Hi Samantha,
You are absolutely right. That’s the basic if we want to see more traffic and income. We must give as much value as we can.
Thanks for sharing your input.
Lye
Hi Lye,
Great idea you had about ‘D.E.L.I.V.E.R.’, congratulations for the post too, I really liked it. D – delight (as you said), E – Enjoy doing your job, L – Living an entrepreneur life, I – Innovative ideas, V – Visionary mind, E – Enthusiasm, R – Reliability on your blog. These came up to my mind, they’re ok but your ones are just great. As I said, keep up the good work, I really enjoy a lot reading your blog!
Best regards,
Maria
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Many people give up almost immediately after they start up a blog. This is because they do not get what they expected from the blog and this discourages them so much. It could be that their blogs do not deliver and that is why they get poor results. Thank you for summing it all up with one word.
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