Every person that ever tried to make some money online surely knows some blogs and e-books that discuss the ultimate and only ways to make a living from your Web activities. Even if a lot of people share some very useful knowledge through this, almost none of them tells you that with this knowledge only, you’re as good as child in the dark. Truth is – all these guides and blogs sucks if you don’t have your brain working!
Devil in the details
Darren Rowse’ Problogger is a great resource of knowledge. John Cow’ or John Chow’ blogs too, even that weird guy Glen Allsopp’ Cloud Living e-book is useful (although you should not even try to purchase it). But I’m sorry guys, your knowledge is useless as long as the person that acquires this knowledge is brainless – are you brainless, my dear reader? Let’s see :).
Examples
Here’s one of the most popular advices around blogsphere to increase traffic to your blog. I’m running a website about paranormal & the occult, and I want to increase the traffic. So I’m advised to send few trackbacks. And of course, I’m also encouraged to write guest posts from time to time for other blogs in my niche. Cool, so what’s the problem? If I would be brainless, I would try to send as many trackbacks as possible, and write as many guest posts as I can. But I won’t do this – because in my niche, there are no blogs I would target, and if there are, I already established partnership relations with them – two blogs, that is :). And I’m sorry, but in paranormal niche 90% of people is s uneducated in running a blog they do not allow comments, nor trackbacks, nor they even place a contact details in their blogs. For many, everything that comes from readers is considered to be spam. Now that sucks!
Not that I think every other blogger is stupid, I don’t – but a lot of them lacks the knowledge about blogging, which makes this niche particularly difficult.
It’s all screwed up!
The problem is that 90% of people who read over these blogs and e-books is not really thinking about what they read – no matter what their niche is, they’re trying to copy/paste the ideas, and they end up with nothing. Yes, I admit that a lot of ideas is working. That’s the point – some ideas works, some doesn’t – your role as blogger or online money maker is to understand the niche you’re operating within. You need to know what works in your niche, and what doesn’t work. You need to be creative and prepared to risk, trying to implement something totally new, something that no one ever tried before. Then, you might be successful.
Don’t copy, think!
Therefore:
- Do not copy and paste every single idea – it might not work.
- Think what might work in your niche and implement it.
- Analyse your niche – find out what works and what doesn’t.
- Don’t be afraid of creativity, try to think about something original by yourself.
Even that can’t guarantee a success in online business – but it will surely help you a lot, if you’re thinking about having your piece of a cake.
Do you copy/paste ideas of others? Or do you do research on your niche? Share your stories in comments below!
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