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Are you a “smaller” blogger and need a cheerleader? How about a community of cheerleaders? Trina from Trina Holden dot com and I will be sharing some things with you that bloggers with a smaller following may face. We want to equip you, encourage you, and cheer you on.
Join us here each Thursday as we cover these topics and more:
- blogging myths
- your influence
- your unique passion {and how that effects your blog}
- numbers and how they create barriers between bloggers
- what’s really required to be an intentional and deliberate blogger
We’re going to introduce you to some influential people who blog and we also want to bring you face to face with the reality of your own blog.
Blogging is not simply writing on a website and hitting “publish”. It is so much more involved than that. The problem is, when we fail to see that, we will not understand why we are not moving forward and connecting with more people.
If your goal is to reach people, then you need to recognize that blogging is less about you, and more about helping others. We need to first check our motives, check our focus and make sure they are in the right place. If you focus on numbers, it’s going to rob you of your creativity and authenticity. If you only talk about your family life and never relate to your readers how your story can be helpful to them, they may never connect the dots and will stop reading.
As a writer, you need to make those connections plain for your reader to see. Yes, share your stories with us; but also share your encouragement and “how to’s”. Tie the most important parts of your story in with how it is relative to your reader.
Before we get started there is something you need: to be teachable. There’s a saying that goes like this:
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. –Susan Jeffries
And another…
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. -attributed to Albert Einstein
If you are interested in moving forward, you need to be willing to make some changes and to press beyond the surface of typing and hitting “publish”.
We want to address your concerns as a small(er) blogger, so we invite you to leave them in the comments. What is your greatest challenge when it comes to blogging? What are some smaller challenges that seem to hinder your blog or hinder you from pressing on?
If you don’t feel comfortable leaving a comment, you can email me at christin at allume dot com with your questions.
Photo Credit: Coreopis Bud
Christin
Christin has a heart to encourage and equip women in aspects of discipleship, marriage, mothering, writing, blogging, and community. She sees the body of Christ as an important community of encouragement and discipleship and works to foster that around the web. Her biggest ministry is to her family and she knows how beautiful, hard, overwhelming, and exhausting mothering can be. She has been married 12 years and has 5 children ranging in age from 10 down to 2. You can find her encouraging moms at her blog Joyful Mothering, helping women in blogging at ChristinSlade.com, and chatting it up on Twitter as @ChristinWrites.
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