2010
Why to Start a Blog?
This question is usually floating around in our heads in random form and time. After reading bunch of blogs from the most popular bloggers on the Internet, I will try in short to separate the reasons why someone should open or start a blog.
Main reasons:
- Personal reasons
(for the people that know me plus relatives and random visitors) - Fun
(do some blogging from time to time and have fun doing it) - Profit
(passionate blogger will post articles for any reason – every day) - Self promotion
(I do blog and have services to sell) - Competent
(professional advice in the specialized area or niche)
This five categories are usually recognized on the Internet. There are other reasons too, but this are the main and most used ones.
Personal, this sort of blogging use people who will blog for documentation purposes, holiday pictures, bad day at work, birthday party at my friend, etc. This sort of blog is good and comfy and is read by small group of people as it meant to.
Fun way of having a blog is also personal and interesting cause these writers usually do not care what kind of people read the blog, they just want to get it out in the open. Let’s have fun!
Profit is one of the hardest ways for starting a blog, but many people succeeded, so can you. More for this you can find at www.problogger.net great advice and much, much more.
Self promotion is very simple. I’m a freelance designer (or developer, or writer, or photographer, etc.) and my portfolio and services are published, but my web site is not so popular. So to attract some action and readers (and clients also) I should start a blog that will be implement in my web site and use it for self promotion. Freelanceswitch published this article about: 6 Reasons Why Freelancers Should Have a Niche Blog, by the way I like blogging too…
Competent advice is pro blog usually supported by some Corporation or News portal where people who have proven their knowledge in the specialized area give advice, useful stuff and tips for readers. Can be personal powered or under some corporation. These guys are usually the moving power in the digital world.
If you have more interesting reasons why someone should start his own blog please feel free to comment, thx?
