Blogging Mistakes I Made When I First Started Building My Online Business and How I Fixed Them

Blogging Mistakes I Made When I First Started

Building My Online Business and How I Fixed Them

Learning From Your Mistakes

Making mistakes comes with the territory when you’re pushing your limits and trying to grow your business online. It’s ok to make mistakes, as long as you learn from them and don’t con<nue to make the same ones over and over again. When growing your business online, you will come to understand that the mistakes you make are par for the course. Don’t let the mistakes get you down, the mistakes are actually your building blocks that are going to make you successful later on. If building a business online and blogging was easy, everyone would be successful at it.

It’s Time to Buckle Down

Now, my ask it that you buckle down for a few minutes and read the below beginner blogging mistakes that I made. If you’re making the same ones, look for ways to improve upon them and for ways that you can implement the correc<ons as fast as possible. I always say, “once you know beBer, you can do beBer,” but for this to work, you need to take ac<on on your side. I’ve made a ton more mistakes than what I’m actually sharing with you in this short ar<cle, my goal is to share some of the more glaring ones with you. I’d love to get some feedback from you aDer you finish viewing this, so that I may learn what mistakes you made and how you corrected them. Please take a moment and leave a comment, I’ll include all the best <ps in the next update of this SlideShare deck. Thank you and enjoy.

The Error and The Fix

1. Not SeFng Up Social Sharing BuIons The Fix: Go to AddThis or ShareThis, get the widget, and place the social sharing buBons at the boBom of your posts.

2. Making my ArLcle InformaLon All About Me The Fix: Make the ar<cle about how your service can provide value to your client.


3. Not SeFng Up a Good CommenLng System The Fix: Install CommentLuv, you can track comments in one place and it’s easy for people to leave a comment.


4. Not Using Good Images The Fix: Go to 123RF, and get your images on the cheap.


5. Not AcLvely Engaging on as Many Comments as Possible The Fix: Try to check comments throughout the day and respond to them.


6. Not Having a Call to AcLon The Fix: Get one. What are you selling, how do you pay your bills?


7. Not Having a Landing Page The Fix: Go to LeadPages, Marketo or Hubspot and get one.


8. Not Having a Subscribe to My NewsleIer BuIon The Fix: Go to FeedBurner and get your free widget.


9. Always Trying to Hit the Grand Slam The Fix: Not every ar<cle is going to be a hit, write from your heart.


10. Trying to Do It All Myself The Fix: Join Google+, follow the experts in your field, read and learn from them.


11. Thinking That I was Going to Get a Million Visitors a Day in the First Month The Fix: Be pa<ent, true success takes <me. Your traffic will build up.


12. PuFng Out Crap Content The Fix: Content is king, slow down, do a liBle more research, really add value to a persons life.


13. Placing Too Many Hyperlinks in an ArLcle The Fix: Not everything needs to be a link, if you men<on a source several <mes, just link to it once.


14. Not Using Blog SyndicaLon Sites The Fix: Go to NetworkedBlogs, Triberr and sites like this.


15. PosLng the IdenLcal InformaLon on All of My Primary Social Media Outlets The Fix: Use TwiBer for breaking news updates, Google+ for sharing expert informa<on, and so on.


16. Not Having a Logo The Fix: Go to 99Designs and get one. You don’t have to spend a lot, just get one.


17. Not Having Keywords The Fix: Pick out how you want people to find you when they search on the web. Use Google’s Keyword tool.


Closing This ArLcle Out

There we have it, many mistakes that I made, and that many beginning bloggers make as well. My ask to you is that you learn from the mistakes that I made. Get involved in the conversa<on by leaving a comment with how you failed, and how you fixed it. Have fun with it, you’ll be surprised at the end result you receive. I’m not associated with any of the above sites, I’m just relaying informa<on that helped me out, in hopes that it can help you out as well.

The Call to AcLon

Take this informa<on and do something with it, if you don’t have the <me or don’t know what your doing, that’s fine, reach out to me directly, and I’ll point you in the proper direc<on and connect you with a helpful resource. Visit the 90DayEntrepreneur.com site and select either the “sign me up as a learner” or the “sign me up as a helper” opt-‐in buBon. This will get you signed up in our thriving community of entrepreneurs.

About the Author

My name is Brandon Schaefer, I’ve busted my hump for the past 15-‐years breaking through barriers that no one ever thought was possible. I’m giving back what I’ve learned through the years, so you don’t have to go through the same trials and tribula<ons that I did. My goal is to help propel you into reaching your goal as fast as you possibly can. If you wish to contact me directly, please fill out the contact form on my 90DayEntrepreneur.com site. Leave me a nice note in the message and I’ll be sure to follow up with you in a <mely manner. I look forward to lending a hand and helping you out as much as I possibly can. We’ll do it together, I assure you one-‐hundred percent.

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