A magic, a surprise...When you wake up today, you are a problogger, with a six figure income. Kafoosh..
Nothing has changed, you are the same, your place is the same, only change is that your blog has become a golden egg laying duck.
Now, today, let us pretend or believe that you had indeed become a problogger, with the money churning blog. Then?
What would you do, then? Lay in the bed, enjoy the visitor count? Or would you be checking the analytics every second? Now, start thinking like a Problogger.
You could not waste your time by looking at statistics or just ignore your blog and work on it at your own whims.
You could find new avenues, new partners, new advertisers, new products for your blog to grow, with the time you have in hand.
Where would you invest your money and time, now? I ask you to think like a problogger who had made it there by hard work and not like one who had blindly hit the jackpot one fine morning :)
There are a few things I believe (not yet being a six figure income blogger), a Problogger's day would be filled with:
READING A LOT
Could be not believable for some but true. More you become a Pro, you become more aware that you have a lot to learn. More you get indulged, farther the horizons.
Being a pro, you get the complete knowledge of your lack of knowledge. When you read a lot, you come to know what more you could know.
The major chunk (say 30% to 40%) of your time would go for reading. Not just other hundreds of blogs but you have to read books and articles and you need to do research. You need to go through your own blogs and think over some articles.
You need to make the right decision of which blogs to read, which tweets to follow. You should be bold enough to unsubscribe and unfollow hundreds (if not thousands), to remove the clutter.
Reading wisely, reading a lot, reading from varied sources - An important trait. BE OPEN TO KNOWLEDGE.
SHARING A LOT(importantly interesting things)
As important as reading, is how willing you are to share. You need to share interesting things with your readers, followers.
There are lot of forums/social networks/blog networks where you could share interesting ideas, interesting finds with others.
Twitter, digg and what not. You need to leave comments in other blogs to keep your foot on ground.
Even though you are a problogger with six figure income, you can't try to earn from all the things you do. You need to have a business mindset but should not stoop low in trying to earn with whatever you do.
You need to share a few goodies, a few free e-books, a few interesting give-aways. They in a way attract visitors to your blog but it mainly enhances your blog's brand and your brand. It helps you see yourself with awe. BE HAPPY TO GIVE.
PLANNING INTELLIGENTLY
You need to plan ahead and as well as your plan needs to be flexible and intelligent. You are a problogger. Do you have posts lined up for the coming month? Say atleast a few posts for the next couple of days?
You have very little time? 'Reading a lot' and 'creating e-books' swallowed your time? Then you need to plan intelligently. You can't give out reasons, if your blog visitor count dropped from 10,000 to 1000. Could you? To whom would you give the reasons?
Start inviting guest posts, schedule your posts well in advance, don't be hyper active, just post at a comfortable pace.
You should not only plan for when to publish your posts but also when not to. Include your vacations and outings too in your schedule. Plan accordingly. Take in all contingencies. Let the plan be flexible(I repeat). BE READY FOR ANYTHING.
NETWORKING
Do you actively(proactively) send mails to other bloggers, for partnership? Inviting them to guest blog, asking for interviews, calling them to review your e-book? You remember, today you are a problogger. So, you need not wait further, start networking.
Be bold enough to reach out. You could start by writing guest posts and sending it to other good blogs. Then you could start inviting some of the bloggers to guest post in your blog.
When you see a good product in any blog, you could ask them to advertise in your blog, quoting your stats. It is not always advertisers who find the publishers. If the product seems to be relevant to your blog, you could take the first step in the partnership. BE PROACTIVE.
Start thinking like a problogger to become a problogger. Once you become a problogger, you won't get a new sets of high end 'mindset'. Start working on your attitude, now and see the difference, that it brings slowly.
If you too wish you could share what the difference was, share with us in the comments section. Let us know your thoughts and ideas.
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