A silly question indeed. Blog is all fun and creativity and your attitude towards anything and everything you are passionate about.
If I had titled this post as “Boring blogging” – many would have been curious to know what it is all about. I could have named it that way but honestly, I would not have found anything to write about J.
A blog is just like a piece of blank paper with nothing on it. It’s all in your hands to make it beautiful and enjoy the process of making it beautiful.
If you like painting you paint it, if you are a poet, you write poems on it. If you enjoy whining, seriously some enjoy doing it J, you could complain about whatever you feel like in your blog.
Technically, it is a web log of whatever you like to share with other netizens.
Professionally, it is a place to showcase your expertise and gain more business.
Emotionally, it is a place to let out your feelings. On the whole it is like any damn simple thing which becomes awesome in the hands of the right beholder.
Nowadays, it is easy in having a blog and it is indeed a right thing to own a blog.
Because, on owning one, you take a small step in doing something different and indeed which is a giant leap introducing you to a complete network of new people and help you better as a person and improve your personality.
Blogging is not just doing what you know. It is also learning what you don’t know. If you like to write, owning a blog would not let you do that alone. You need to be able to make your blog appealing, you should network with other bloggers. You need to communicate with your readers. You need to improve your interpersonal skills.
Talking to a group of people and being comfortable with a set of strangers offline for a short duration is easy. But online, you could take two routes, either be an imposter or be honest and improve your personality. The second path is the best way, connecting with new people and being polite online and gaining confidence of your readers always, the entire experience would be very enthralling and interesting.
Give it a go. Open up your own blog. There are many blogging tutorials, books and blogs out there from where you could learn a lot.
After some time, your blog could be worth millions not only monetarily but could become a great asset for you to sell your skills, ideas and could be used as a platform to showcase your skills to your potential employers.
It can become a medium to communicate with your customers.
Blogs open up new opportunities for earning and improving your business which is sure a ‘not to miss’ aspect for your business. The advantages augment. You reach new customers, your customers become more loyal. You could introduce new point of contacts for selling to your customer. The goodness is unlimited.
Leave alone these things, updating your blog which is read by someone in the other part of the world and getting appreciated and communicating with likeminded people brings limitless, unexplainable happiness.
This is the right time. Start a blog. And experience the world of difference that I am experiencing and enjoying owning this blog. It is really fun running a blog - a mini enterprise and you the founder.
Footnote:
There are many free services which is a boon to bloggers and some of the notable ones are www.blogger.com , etc., where you get a web address like mydomain.blogspot.com, to host your blog.
Having a domain name, nothing but a web address for your own, just like I have my own domain name www.iPENthisBLOG.com , for hosting a blog is also fun.
But before owning your own address open a free blog in blogger or anywhere else.
Give it a try and then later move to a domain address of your own because the work involved on running a hosted blog could dampen your spirits.
You could get a new domain from www.godaddy.com, www.prouddomains.com etc., If you are looking for some interesting blog domain names, you could find some interesting ones from my repository.
Welcome to a new world of greatness and richness in thought and personality.
[Pic by Annie Mole]
2 comments:
Few days back I had written a simple post about reasons why I blog. http://binaryday.com/2009/04/21/reasons-why-i-blog/
Go through the comments as many really good bloggers have also contributed their reasons for blogging.
btw I chanced upon your blog today only. Really good.
@binaryday - I went thru' your post. It was short but captured the essense.
Hmm, to say, my passion for blogging is because(what a fool of me!! didn't give a much needed deeper thought :) ) I 'have a liking to write' and 'passionate in increasing my knowledge by sharing'.
Left a comment in your post too to grow the thread. If you get anymore interesting comments, pls do share.
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