Everybody who loves writing wants to be a $10k+ per month blogger, including yours truly but it’s never the right time to get started! We got things going on!
That’s how every successful blogger you like felt when they first started! It’s not the right time! But then they got started anyway at the wrong time because it’s better to get started then not get started. If you don’t take any actions to transform your life with the power of the blog you will continue to get what you are getting right now, or worse, because in the game of life if you are not growing you are dying.
8 Common Excuses For Not Getting Started With You Blog
- “I Don’t Have Enough Time Right Now” The brutal truth is you will never have enough time to start your blog. That’s life. We have commitments: work, family, Netflix. However, if you don’t make time to build your blog, well, you will never have a blog that will earn money for you while you sleep. The truth is you do have time. I have never met a person that absolutely 100% does not have extra time.
- “I’m Not An Expert” All experts start at zero, realistically though, whatever you choose to blog about it’s probably something you know reasonably well, but maybe not expert level. Well, great news! First, there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit of things you already know that you can blog about. Second, you can research and learn about the things you do not know about. Third, eventually you will be considered an expert. Not being an expert is not a valid reason for not getting started on your blog.
- “I’m Too Late To Blogging Gravy Train” If only it was still 2010! WRONG. More people and more business is being done on the internet than ever before. While there is more competition, the pie has grown by about a million percent (maybe more, I don’t know). There is MORE money for bloggers than there was in 2010, but you gotta work for it. Don’t believe the stories that blogging in 2010 was instant riches. There were a TON of failed blogs even then, but you just never hear about them. The blogging gravy train is here and now!
- “I Need The Perfect Website Domain” No, you don’t even need a .com anymore. Maybe this used to be true, but shoot, I confidently launched my blog using a .blog domain. So what? Google doesn’t care. They send me traffic. Internet users don’t care. They know .com isn’t the only domain. I think there is an argument to be made that in the future alternative domains will be seen as more “real” and more trustworthy than cooperate slop .com domains. Figure out what you want to call you blog in less than a day, if the .com is taken then grab an alternative. I’m partial to .blog. I think .blog is the future for solo bloggers.
- “What If Nobody Reads It?” There are more people on the interwebs than ever before, if you pick a niche, write useful content and do so consistently, people will come and read your blog. Just not right away, and this is where most blogger hopefuls give up. “I’ve been blogging consistently for a year and nobody reads.” My advice would be try two years, and do some social media promotion. Readers will come.
- “I’ll Start When The Kids Are Older” No you won’t. Because when the kids are older there will be some other thing. “When the kids graduate college, when I retire, when the grandkids are older” and now you are dead. Without ever knowing the joy of being free by blogging! What a shame! Okay, a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the headline of this article is “It Is Never The Right Time To Start A Blog” and it’s my job to make sure you understand that even though it is never the right time, the correct time is now.
- “All The Niches Are Taken And Saturated” Fact Check: False. When was the last time you came across a really good blog that blew you away? Ten years ago, maybe? Most blogs nowadays are slop. You have no competition! Does Lebron James consider an obese 50 year old playing in the YMCA rec league as competition, as saturation in his sport? Of course not! All you have to do is be the best blogger in your niche, which isn’t as hard as it sounds. Mainly you just have to show up everyday and not write slop. Google will rank you. Traffic will come. Don’t worry if you have “competition” in your niche.
- “I Don’t Have Enough Money To Get Started” Buying hosting from Bluehost doesn’t cost much, and if you buy through my Bluehost Affiliate Link they throw in a free domain. But even if you are dead broke, well, then start a Substack newsletter. That’s free and that counts as blogging in my book. Having zero dollars isn’t a real reason to not blog. It is not a barrier.
The True Cost Of Waiting
Every month you delay is another month that is not producing compounding effects in your blogging game. Every article posted is another step toward blogging success. Three articles a week equals 156 avenues for an audience to find you. Ten years of consistency is 1,560 articles and practically guarantees good blogging income. Blogging is a long game. It will take at least three years of dedication before starting to earn a decent income. And every day you wait is one more day that doesn’t compound to your success.
The quicker you get started the more opportunities there will be, and the opportunities that come to you will be unpredictable. “I never would have guessed blogging would have led to this!” you will say (in a good way). Building a blog now puts you into position for future, unknown opportunities.
Every day you delay you fall deeper into the rut and the psychological barrier to starting grows. So start! Go! Write! The best time to plant a blog…
It’s Never A Good Time To Start A Blog So You Might As Well Start Now
Start now! You will…
- Learn faster under the time-crunch of your life responsibilities. My entire life I have been a very, very slow writer, but launching my blogs this year that need to be filled with content taught me how to write fast, and, of course, I find that my fast writing and slow writing are almost the same quality. Wish I would have learned this lesson quicker! (A slight edge goes to my slow writing, but more articles are WAY more important than crafting the absolute perfect sentence. I’ll save my slow writing for my novel efforts).
- Start building the compounding effects for your blog. You first blog post turns into ten then a hundred then a thousand. The posts interconnect. Traffic pours in. More opportunity. More avenues. Freedom! Build! Build! Build!
- Lecture your children about when you first started your legendary blog you were doing so while changing diapers and staying up late until 2:00 AM. Build up the dad-lore! (Or mom-lore, if you prefer that). Tell those young whippersnappers about that hard work you put in to give them this wonderful life!
Time To Take Action
Open up a Google Sheet or a Word doc. Write a headline and write a paragraph, even if it sucks. Heaven knows I’ve written thousands of lousy paragraphs. The important thing is to start! GO! GO! GO! You can do it!