Monday, October 8, 2012

The Three C's of Your Blogging Success


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Blogging Success means different things to everyone but for me a successful blogger has these three qualities. 

The 3 C’s of Your Bogging Success

Now that you have set up your blog, lets move on to the step of growing a successful blog.  These tips are rules to follow throughout your journey of your blogging career.
The three C’s of Your Bogging Success are Connections, Collaborations, and Confidence. 

Connections
The 3 C's of Blogging Success via @Ileane

The easiest way to make connections is to join Blogging Communities such as Blog Engage, Website Babel,  Blokube, Biz Sugar, and The Social Buzz Club.  Joining these communities you can share your stories, learn, comment and interact with other bloggers

Collaborations

Once you make connections in blogging communities it will be easier to collaborate with bloggers who share similar interests with you.
Build you path to blogging success.  You cannot do it on your own. 

Confidence

Once you collaborate you will start to build your confidence.  Now that you are putting out good work and valuable content you will start to build confidence.  Your confidence will now show through your work making you a better blogger.

Are you surprised that I didn't include "content" as one of the three c's? 
That was done intentionally and if you want to know more about my feelings on the subject, check out this interview I did with SmallBizTrends

Here's a snippet from the article:
"And while the primary focus of the community was initially blogging, as social media rose in popularity, Smith began offering more tutorials and blog posts to help small business owners navigate the worlds of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google + and more.  Smith practices what she preaches about social media, with active profiles on all the major sites. She recognizes the importance of maintaining profiles on multiple social sites, though she does have her favorites..."

Resources mentioned:
Blog Engage
Social Buzz Club