What Makes You Different?
Everyone enters the world of blogging with a dream. A dream to be entirely different than the last person who promised the same thing. So why is it that today we see all these new bloggers arrive in the blogosphere with a bang….and leave just as quickly. The whole idea about being successful in the blogosphere is not only promising or attempting to be different, but BEING different and this can be achieved in many ways.
1) Be Yourself - Probably the single most important point that I bring up many times. Its not about who you can replicate or what style of writing posts you can emulate but its about writing the post as if you were making conversation. Don’t make it hard on yourself. The simpler and more natural a post sounds, the better it is for your uniqueness. Be yourself and that automatically makes you different.
2) Dont Copy, Be Inspired - If you read a blog post on some other blog, dont think about blatantly talking about the same topic but be inspired by it. Take it a step further or branch off of it. Nobody likes to go around the blogosphere and see bloggers talking about the same thing. When you are inspired, you tend to write brilliant posts. Oh, and please give credit to those who inspire you!
3) Dont Show & Tell - Everyone reads posts about how much money you made but talk about how you made that money. Let me rephrase, how you really made that money. Meaning, give out tips that really helped you be where you’re at. I’m not knocking anyone but there are some people who talk about their monthly checks but then they say “well, I really can’t say what I did”. I understand that some things are “tricks of the trade” but then why even mention the check. Dont be boastful, he honest.
4) Unique Presentation - I’ve already talked about being yourself when writing a post but you can always write a post in a manner that sets you off differently. You can use lists, graphics, graphs or even nice cartoonic images to help communicate your point using a different type of visual. Make it interesting for you and your readers.
5) Be Revolutionary - Well, not necessarily revolutionary but be controversial if you have to and if you strongly believe in something. Dont stand casually when you really feel you should be acting upon something. If there is something that you feel you need to talk about, bring up or shed some light on then, do it without hesitation. Everyone likes to see someone taking a stand and you should do it if you have to.
Well, I hope you enjoyed another post that can help you stand out from the crowd. Hopefully these tips can help you stand out from the crowd and if you have any more tips that you can think of, I’d like to hear them. Do you think the blogosphere has too many blogs that talk about the same thing?
My opinion would be that there are a lot of sites and blogs that all talk about the same thing….although, it seems everytime I get an idea for a new site or something like that, I do a search and it’s already been done :S
I’ve had that happen also. I always figure that theres something better out there waiting for me when something I come up with is already taken.
yeah, I keep trying…although sometimes I think I should maybe try to compete with some of the “competition” but maybe I’m just getting over confident!
I agree that you need to make your blog stand out! Make it different whether it is with the design, the content or the topic. You have to make your blog memorable so that readers will want to return.
can’t say it any better than that.
I second that!
Very well said Debby. You can really go any route with making it unique and give readers a reason to return again.
To be honest, it pretty funny how many times I have read a post giving tips on being unique and standing out, all excellent, and your post is not an exception!
Yeah, theres a lot of these posts around but its just that lately theres been a lot of “copy cat” blogs out there.