The right attitude and mindset is what a blogger needs to be successful. Knowing what one's passion is and pursuing it diligently with even more passion is the right ingredient needed for any blogger.
But there is also social media which is mainly for getting to know new people which is what makes it interesting but seems to eat up a blogger's time.
But for the good or the bad, we bloggers are using social media to also spread our brand, our blog and sell ourselves.
It is all fine and seems that it is even essential in making your blog reach new readers.
The goodness of these social medias far overweigh the negatives and hence makes them an essential aspects needed in the kitty for any blogger. I don't mean you need to tweet crazy nuts at 1000 tweets/day, Stumbling a couple of hundred sites per day.
Just honor and respect the apps and use them intelligently. Always, blogging would be the priority for our bloggers and it needs to be that way because honing your interest and your knowledge and skill should take precedence over socializing.
But do we use these apps with the same passion with which we run our blog. To say, I am interested in designing and anything related to blogging and that is why iPENthisBLOG is around.
The sweet reality is, if you enjoy these social media as much as you enjoy blogging and as much sincere and honest as you are in your blog, you would be successful in these social medias too and you could manage them comfortably.
Use social media to spread word about your blog but not just as a marketing tool. By using it that way, you suck all the goodness out of these apps.
I am not going to give 10 best ways to handle the social media frenzy out here but I am going to share some simple things what I feel about handling them.
Don't get taken back by the enormity in the number of social medias around. Find those ones which are suitable to your blog and are to your liking and which would help better server your readers.
Include, if possible, these apps in your blog. Also, if possible, automate some updates. I don't mean to say not to get involved in what you are doing by simple retweeting your messages but to use tools like friendfeed to update apps like Facebook regularly.
Make a routine of, on what days are you going to socialize with which people and where.
Use social media with ease by using alternative apps or using browser addons or what ever you feel is making you more YOU and enjoy the process and not one which makes you not like what you are doing.
If some social media doesn't suit you, don't feel bad in dropping out from them.
Social medias are like pals, interact with them, meet with them often and enjoy being with them but remember your obligation, your love - your BLOG. :)
Finding the balance is something what every blogger needs to know and get expertised in. I am trying to get it and working on it. Hope you too have some ideas on social medias and how you use them.
Have you achieved the balance? Is it easy? What do you feel?
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