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I would like to twist “Bee Gees : Stayin’ Alive Lyrics” a tad bit:

Well, you can tell by the way I use my blog,
I’m a looser’s man—no time to talk.
Traffic is down and no one’s around, I’ve been kicked around
Since I was born.
And now it’s all right. It’s OK.
And you may look the other way.
We can try to understand
The Blogging Times’ effect on man.

Blogging’s goin’ nowhere, somebody help me, yeah yeah yeah, Stayin’ alive!

I absolutely loved (I still love it) this song in my fledgling blogging career. The scars are permanently etched in my memory. Heck, every time I pitch to the client, I start with “you don’t want your website to be hanging in internet and no one will ever see…” No, its not fear psychosis that I use to sell my services to them (you see that is an old paradigm in selling, I subscribe to newer ones BUHAHAHAHAHAH!), it’s my own fear psychosis that haunts me. At the same time, as years have gone by, it helped me to drive my clients websites too. If not paid for doing it, I always make it a point to remind them to do it.

Bloggers need motivation at various stages. I will stop at and address just the second stage.

Stage I: Potential bloggers need motivation to start a blog. Almost everyone has a latent desire to blog, but, it has to be translated to action.
Stage II: Beginner bloggers to keep going. This is where the blogger can make or break his blog.

Right, you followed my guide on a good blog and wrote your first content. Then you wrote your second content, then the third one, then the ……. 4th one. No one came to your blog and then you get bit demoralized. Trust me, you have all the reasons to get demoralized. You deserve it. But, atleast you figured out that by just creating a blog and writing some sentences is not enough. so, you followed my other post on “possiblng ways to get blog traffic” and tell some of your friends to come and visit. But, to no avail. You know, getting traffic is damn hard. It’s even harder to retain it. You should understand that folks on internet are in tearing hurry and have no time. The internet is such a big place that some one has already done what you are trying to do and probably done it better. They have first mover advantage and are slick bloggers. To get your head out of blogging waters and make a blogging watermark is going to take helluva time.

Get a fact in your head booster, good bloggers work very hard even when they have succeeded. You need to work equally hard.

What is the solution?

Be honest. Have right expectations. This is very important. Its not possible to grow one of the biggest blogs with dry topics. In my opinion, things that sell are celebrities (I am trying to be modest) or Movies or Gadgets etc. There are exceptions in every category. So the subject of your blog is say ‘soda Ash,’ don’t expect ‘celebrity blog’ kind of traffic. Expect similar response in making money on that blog. The demotivation comes from wrong expectations. Another point is the traffic won’t drive in, you have to drive the traffic. In a day, take some time to drive traffic ( “possiblng ways to get blog traffic” ). You need to shout to be heard.

You can even try two blogs, one for your subject matter and other for popular subjects. This might also reduce your demotivation. I tried that sometime back and it worked for me.

I have addressed the core issues of demotivation during blogging. Other motivation points are the general everyday motivation techniques we use, after all, blogging is no different from the things we do everyday.

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