5 Confucius Tips Applied to Blogging
I just read in CopyBlogger an interesting article about 5 Confucius phrases applied as tips to blog better, you can read the original article here: Blogging tips from the father of Chinese Philosophy
I really liked that article since they are really useful tips and I like to read quotes from historical figures so now I'm going to do my bit by writing 5 more tips to be successful with a blog based on other Confucius quotes.
1- If we aim at the stars and hit the moon, that's fine. But we must aim at something, many people don't even aim.
Perhaps the objectives we have for our blog are not met as we planned at the beginning, but we must have them! Why do we write and where do we want to go?
Having a blog, whether personal or business, without well-defined objectives is like pointing to the void and hoping to get something right, we must always know where we want to go, in this way it is also easier to recognize new opportunities or know when we must change our direction for any reason.
2- It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop.
The only thing that can make you fail is to give up, if we don't have time to write every day we can modify our update frequency every other day, once a week, once a month, etc. until you can update again more often.
Going even very slowly is always better than coming to a complete stop.
3- Our greatest glory is never to fall, but to always get up.
We are going to make mistakes, some of our projects are just not going to work or we are going to write some great nonsense sometime ... when that happens we must be prepared not to let that get us motivated.
Did we write an article with wrong information?
Then we modify it clarifying that before it had an error or we write another explaining why the previous one is not valid, letting our readers know that we have a commitment to provide reliable information.
One of our projects was a failure?
We analyze why this turned out like this, what steps were taken wrong, what things we did not pay enough attention to, etc. There is much more to learn from failure than from fortuitous victory, and it also brings more benefits down the road.
Whatever the stumbling block we must always see the lesson behind it and apply it to avoiding the same problem in the future.
4- Choose a job that you love and you should not work a single day of your life.
This could be said as: Choose a topic that you love and you should not blog as an obligation.
Unless your passion is writing per se and you like to research and write about different topics, it becomes very boring to have to write content about niches and topics that are not of interest to you.
This I can say from my own experience that several times I tried to write about subjects for which I do not feel passion and the results were never even half what they are when I blog about something I like.
If we do not want to feel blogging as a burden, we must choose topics that we naturally like to share with other people.
Instead of being worried that they don't know you, worry that it is worth knowing you.
The same can be applied to blogging, SEO and almost any activity both Online and Offline, it is much more productive to make an effort to make it worthwhile for the visitor to find us.
Useful content, quality products and services, your own style, fresh ideas, etc. All this makes the visitor have a good experience, it is easier to receive links from important sites and spread word of mouth about us on social networks or even offline.
Many people are more concerned with PPC and SEO as techniques that have nothing to do with the people behind the monitor rather than the true purpose that both have, to satisfy a need of the navigator.
I can verify these tips from my own experience and I identify them a lot with the way of thinking of Confucius and other thinkers, perhaps we should add the reading about historical figures to our usual readings about the Internet and business 🙂
