Your Blog Is Your Resume
Your blog is like your resume. Just like your resume helps you get a job, your blog helps you get an audience. You’ve all heard the idea that your resume has to sell your skills and talent and its similar with a blog. Your blog has to sell your creativity, your knowledge and your skills. You have to let your blog do the talking and theres only a few ways you can get that accomplished.
1. Research - Just don’t blog about something because you feel that its interesting. Do your research and be sure to KNOW what youre blogging about. If you don’t do this step then you’d just sound like you don’t have a clue what youre blogging about. Research the advertising company, the concept or the service/product you are blogging about and know the ins-and-outs of it. Think about it, if you’re asked a question about a post and you have no response, does that really show that you did your research? Probably not, so do your research!
2. Tutorials - If you’re good at something, show it off! Well, not like that but, share it with your readers. It only helps build your reputation and your credibility. For example, Syed over at Balkhis really knows a lot about design and he puts up tutorials to help his readers about different aspects of design. It only strengthens your credibility and helps your readers realize that youre knowledgeable about the subject at hand. Consider this, you’d really not want someone to “attempt” to fix your car if all they had done was watch auto repair shows on tv. You need someone with experience and someone who can prove to you that they have experience. Its almost the same when it comes to blogging, so write up tutorials.
3. Accept Challenges/Questions - Sometimes you’ll have the occasional person who challenges your opinion or your standpoint or will ask you a question. If you’ve made a statement based on your knowledge then it would be a good idea to be receptive to such challenges and questions. Staying away or refraining from accepting a challenge or answering a question makes you appear incapable of being able to stand by your opinion. Its kind of like putting something on your resume and having no references to back it up.
Hopefully you enjoyed the post. I have been having some issues with my timestamp so thats why there was a delay. Ill have a post about that soon and I wonder if you guys have seen similar issues. Have a great weekend!
another wonderful presentation!
Good post. It’s very true that to build up a readership, you need to build up trust - people need to see your blog as providing factual, accurate and useful info, and then they’ll continue to come back for more.
Couldn’t agree more. Thanks for your comment.
Very true. And with what you said Nabil, I will admit that My blog also bring me alot of clients to my web designing firm. Through which we are at 6 figures yearly now gross.
Thats very impressive! Keep it up!
Nope, nope, it all depends on what niche it is too. In your case, yes, because you’re trying to teach people, be professional, etc.
But on a personal blog, why would you need all that extra stuff? What if I were just talking about my daily life?
Jay
Good points, I guess it depends on what you are after. But it’s true, that people will make up their mind about you through your blog…so, if you want an audience you have to give them a reason to read you blog instead of the 57eleventymillion other ones out here lol.