10 Secrets Behind Blogging
#1. You will become a better writer
Just the discipline of sitting down and writing will improve your writing skills.
Thinking and planning doesn’t cut it…action and doing does!
#2. Your video skills will improve
If you spend some time interviewing people with videos or even recording yourself to provide online education and “how to”‘ tips via video, then your video skills will improve whether that is the lighting, the structure of the set or even the sound quality.
#3. You will learn
To write you have to read. There is a very distinct direct bonus from this activity. You will learn …a lot!
#4. Visibility – People will hear about you
People discover information online today, so if you want to be a discovered and become a visible expert then blogging and social media will provide you with the visibility. Conducting a Google search is how we find people and information today not the library or the town square unless you are a stalker.
#5. Expert status
Perceived or real, the art of publishing online via blogging will transform you from an amateur to a professional. Keep doing this with enough passion, purpose and focus and you will become “that” expert on your chosen topic if you persist.
#6. Become a champion researcher
You will also find the best ways to obtain information as you hunt down information and resources for your blog. You will identify global bloggers, resources and experts that will provide the insights and information you need to provide ongoing value to your readers.
#7. Power networker
As you start to become noticed people will want to connect with you and catch up for a coffee or invite you to their events and gigs. What a great way to meet your tribe who love your topic as much as you do.
#8. Your memory will improve
Exercising the brain through writing and learning will provide much needed exercise for the neurons. Keeping the body fit requires physical exercise. The mind needs stimulation and activity as well to be mind fit. You will be amazed by what you will remember from participating in mental gymnastics provided by blogging activities.
This will also have a the side benefit of looking more intelligent at cocktail parties and that has to be a good thing!
#9. Your creativity will increase
Nothing like a focused passion to improve your creativity.You will find that your brain will think more creatively as you move from conscious skills to unconscious and automatic activity, that frees up the thinking for out of the box thinking.
#10. Synergizes and Synthesizes Focus
The act of writing and expressing yourself online will provide you with internal and external feedback that sharpens the intuition and focuses your mind. The benefits of a social interactive web is that it taps into the global mind that will provide you with the feedback loop that will sharpen and amplify your purpose and passion if you are willing to listen.