The Best Reasons to Continue Writing Your Blog, Even when You're Tired of Writing It!

When I hear people complain about the daily grind of writing their blogs, I just have to ask them one question: "Why are you still writing it then?" While it is true that a great many writers suffer from "writer's block", there are plenty of bloggers who never wrote anything else before in their lives. These people are just blogging because they heard it brings thousands of visitors to everybody's site no matter what the site has to offer. Nothing could be further from the truth. To be on top of your profession as a blog writer, you need to have a great love of whatever you are writing about. If you have nothing to offer of value to your web visitors, then you must hire a writing professional to refresh your blog on a daily or weekly basis. If you continue to write your blog without enjoying it, your site visitors will hear the frustration in your blogs, and that will turn them away from your site forever. If you are on the fence about what kind of satisfaction comes from writing a successful blog, let me count the ways and give you a clear understanding of the rewards you should be reaping every day from your blog writing.

Building a network of Contacts. This is one of the main reasons most people have started writing their own blogs. When people hear about the blog on your site, they probably heard about how well-written and informative your weekly blog was. A lot of bloggers get e-mail on a daily basis from millionaires and prominent businessmen that want to learn more about what your blog is describing in further detail. Word of mouth about your blog is usually the best way to get a book deal from a publisher who is looking for a writer that can handle the topic that your blog is describing. You would be amazed at the amount of phone calls that can be generated by a blog that entices the many visitors of your site. Covering controversial conflicts in your blog might bring you the wrong kind of contacts into your world, too. Racist rants will perk up the attention of KKK members, for instance. So always be sure to be ready to fend off e-mails from bigots and other hate-mongers if you write with a positive slant towards racist views. Quality content will always be king as far as blogging goes, so make your positive writings appeal to the upper-crust of the world, and you will build important contacts with people who can give you that great break you've always been longing for in the entertainment business.

The Fame Game. There are plenty of popular blog sites out there that have made a few of their writers somewhat famous. The more well-known you are to people on the internet, the more profit margin there will be for you when your ads start getting a few more hundred hits per day. What usually comes from fame? Attention! And the greatest attention a blogger can expect would be from a publishing giant like Random House or Putnam Publishing. If you have a little bit of buzz going around the net, you can name your own price as far as an advance is concerned. It also helps increase your speaker fees if you make the rounds at colleges and smaller school meetings on a quarterly basis.

Enhances your lifestyle. A really well-written blog can generate more passive income than any other creative writing skill I know. You might be saying, "How is that a passive income if I have to write it everyday?" Good question. Have you considered that there is always going to be a necessary action to take to generate a decent income? No matter what scheme you have contrived to get that much-needed passive income going, there are always at least 3 to 4 steps you need to take. But when it comes to blogging, you just have to write a great blog, and then you convert it into an article and sell it to article submission sites that pay you a cent each time someone clicks on your article area. That may not sound like much, but then you can also send your blog that you converted into an article to 10 or 15 other sites that pay 2 cents per click. Top it off by selling that same article to a magazine like Rolling Stone or Readers Digest for $600 or $700, and you're looking at a passive income GOLDMINE! This frees up your valuable time to do the things you really love to do in life. You can go hiking, go to a movie, see a concert or whatever it is you truly want to do instead of working the daily grind.

Gives you a sense of accomplishment. Any time you can write a nice 800-1000 word blog that really brings excellent information to a new business owner or a much-needed smile to somebody who just lost a relative, it will give you a great deal of pride when that person e-mails you telling you what that article/blog meant to them. You cannot put a price on something like that, let me tell you. I wrote an article on "The Battle of the Bulge" for Memorial Day, and I received accolades from war veterans about the sense of pride in America that my article instilled in them. No amount of money in the world can give you the feeling that a message like that will give you.

Blog posting demands time management. A lot of people would say that this is a negative aspect of blogging. Not so. Blogging every day instills a real need to manage all of your time more effectively, thereby making you organize every other aspect of your business as well. Many of us always need a good kick in the butt to get motivated in life, and setting a perfect time table for writing your blog is the catalyst that will make your overall business run more efficiently. It also allows you to prioritize in life regarding issues you never gave a second thought to. When you write about something you desire to know more about, it makes you search out more articles to read about that particular subject, allowing you to grow as an individual. What other daily task lets you do that?

Requests for books/sales. This is the final and perhaps biggest reason why many of you need to continue to blog. Most successful bloggers have seen an increase in their overall sales by 150% after finally achieving internet online presence with their blogs. You will be turning down requests for book signings and appearances by the time your blog becomes really successful. You have to be ready for the increase in your products/services sales, too. It will take at least six months of successful marketing and advertising for any blog to generate a buzz on the web these days, because of the fierce competition among the growing amount of dedicated blog sites. But by being very patient and consistent with your value-oriented blog writings, there will be great success at the end of the rainbow.