Top 5 Blogging Excuses

Do you feel the real necessity a small, inexpensive website to help establish or grow your business? Maybe a online webseries portfolio would get more gigs, maybe even get picked up by a network? Is Britney Spears really sane, or is she just pretending? Some of these things we will never really know. However blogs are a great low cost entry point for you to take the first step online. However if your like me, a lot of ideas or excuses rush through your head., and you start giving yourself excuses. I submit to a two part course of Blogging Excuses & Abuses intend to debunk, or demystify blogs.

1. I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START!

Many individuals/corporations struggle to take their first step into cyberspace usually because they are overwhelmed. There’s too much information and resources, but very little personal assistance or kindness, and no place to “start” to help with my particular situation. Here is the broad breakdown of services with a brief overview of websites that you should become familiar with. I highly recommend them all.

• Domain Registers : godaddy
• Blog Service : WordPress, Blog Catalog
• Blog Hosting Server ; MediaTemple
• Video Hosting : Youtube,

2. ITS TOO TECHNICAL AND I’M NOT GOOD AT IT!

I completely understand, but disagree. Blogging is not very technical only comprehensive. It is time consuming to establish your online home, but it does get easier, and even fun-er. Never fear, its not that hard. I went from never setting up my own blog and website to it spending one 8 hour day understanding everything, and having a very slick setup that I am quite proud of. Also keep in mind that there are some companies that offer stellar services that will guide you step by step 24/7. This placed my mind at ease from the very beginning. Great people, great support, oh happy day.

3. ITS TOO EXPENSIVE!

You can have a blog for free or pay a small amount to have a custom one created. Blogs may range in price from $25.00 to several hundred. I recommend beginning with a fairly inexpensive template just to get started. You can always improve as time goes on. Depending on what your personal interest, market, or services are you can find some excellent templates which cater to your needs. If you need these blog template changed or tweaked to fit your logo or color scheme you will need a basic understanding of designing software or simply pay them to do it. Most offer this as an additional service.

4. I CAN’T/WON’T FIND THE TIME!

Quite possibly the most illegitimate of all previous excuses. The point is we will never have enough time. You can not “save” time, you can be more effective with your time. You can never “find” time, it was never lost. Time will move along well without every single one of us. Our task is to regulate our schedules and therefor our time to accomplish our goals. Perhaps the best answer to this excuse is a sincere personal dialogue as to the priority of this blog in your life, and does it assist or deter from your goals? Perhaps a blog would not be the best thing for you at this point in your career? Or stop making excuses and do it. I must choose the later.

5. WHATS THE POINT?

Often this question is asked of those who had once started excitedly, but since have lost their passion. This is to be expected with all creative projects, and writting especially a blog is no exception. Remember your earliest goals. Why did you start? Does that reason still hold true? Perhaps you or your topic has changed fundamentally since you began? I would recommend beginning your blog with a clear attainable objective. Becoming the leading blog on dog food may not be realistic, but bolstering your dog chow sales by 10%  through leads from your blog is reasonable. Whatever your original “point” make sure to stay true.

Honorary Mention:

Can you help/do this for me?

Of course I can! Email or Call me. However the true magic in the blog that it is a personal self-expression that only YOU can create. There are an abundance of sites that can take all the “painful” process, and leave you simply the fun-er stuff of filling in content, but why? The fulfillment comes from the understanding gained.